How Much Does Your Accountant Charge?

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Your accountant must have ordered a ringtone or acai from you and is getting back at you. What the fuck " IN NYC Your fees would be Double"
have to do with anything? Talk about fleecing. what a fucking scumbag where did you find him in the yellow pages. Once he said that I would tell him to fuck off. Also he talks down to you saying im sure your "internet marketing friends" like its a fucking kids club what a fucking hater he is pissed you made 800k so he is making sure he gets some of the money from ya.
 


$240 for one of the top small business accountants in the state, and top 5 in the nation on the CPA exam when she took the test. Shoot her a quickbooks backup file and she tells me how much more I owe the government a couple weeks later.
 
mediasup said:
Your accountant must have ordered a ringtone or acai from you and is getting back at you. What the fuck " IN NYC Your fees would be Double"
have to do with anything? Talk about fleecing. what a fucking scumbag where did you find him in the yellow pages. Once he said that I would tell him to fuck off. Also he talks down to you saying im sure your "internet marketing friends" like its a fucking kids club what a fucking hater he is pissed you made 800k so he is making sure he gets some of the money from ya.
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i like you.
 
mine charged about $1400 to handle biz and personal and my shit was not simple and not small numbers. your guy overcharged the shit out of you. congrats.
 
"In 2008 you had an $800,000 business with no accounting records which we put together from scratch"

The from scratch is the issue. I'm assuming you just sent him your paper Amex statements? Or did you break everything down and send him a balance sheet/ profit loss statement? If he had to manually enter all your data charging 200+ an hour I don't think he completely ripped you off. Most people who responded to this thread prob are using quickbooks or some other accounting software that their accountant will just look over and make some journal entries to correct anything.

Did you really not have a relationship with a CPA before you started on your way to $800K? I don't know what your biz entity is but unless you showed 0 or very low profit last year you probably should of been paying quarterly estimates. Did this accountant say you protected under safe harbor? With 800K in rev in 08 you prob should of already sent your 1st quarter 09 estimates.

 
Mine are around 1200 per corp and then 600-800 for personal. Depends on how organized you are though. If you operate of quicken and quickbooks I think it's cheaper. But if you walk in with a stack of shit you're going to get charged up the ass.

And my taxes are not easy AT ALL. We pay 1000's of affiliates, traffic sources, get money from tons of advertisers, employees, etc etc.
 
mediasup said:
Your accountant must have ordered a ringtone or acai from you and is getting back at you. What the fuck " IN NYC Your fees would be Double"
have to do with anything? Talk about fleecing. what a fucking scumbag where did you find him in the yellow pages. Once he said that I would tell him to fuck off. Also he talks down to you saying im sure your "internet marketing friends" like its a fucking kids club what a fucking hater he is pissed you made 800k so he is making sure he gets some of the money from ya.
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Yeah, Paul he's right. Trust me, I made a post a while back about taxes and how to learn more about them and all of you told me to go see an accountant even though I said he would try to fuck me over. I did see a few accountants and they didn't tell me shit and they did act like it's a fucking kids club.

So here's what I did, I paid 15 bucks with shipping and ordered this great book which just arrived in the mail today, I hope to be quite prepared for next year's taxes at least:

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your ass must hurt. should be no more than $700 for your situation because I have all sorts of credit cards, accounts, disorder, etc. and thats what I paid for personal + corp.
 
Yep Some One got their Ass Raped and Hard....

The Arrogance of the Accountant was the hard bit....
 
Seriously, Quickbooks will make everyone's life easier, including your accountant.

Like once a month I open Quickbooks, have it downloaded all my credit card charges, then it will classify all of them as like advertising, travel, misc, etc.. Then i have it download all my bank account transactions. Done, I spend like 20 minutes on it once a month.

Then come tax time, just send your accountant a copy. Aside from having to actually pay the taxes, it makes taxes much easier
 
Fuck that guy, his dur-dur numbers don't add up.

Even if he charged you maximum of $250 per hour, the new person would cost $3,000 for a total of 12 hours. Let's be generous and say he worked 5 hours which according to him is "several".

Total still only adds up to $4250, and that's if we're doing max $250 an hour.

At this price, how much did he actually SAVE you? Who cares if he can put the papers together nicely in a 3 ring binder with fancy paper, how much did he SAVE?

Do accountants in NY really make $500 an hour?
 
Andrew Scherer said:
Do accountants in NY really make $500 an hour?
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I worked at a CPA firm for a few years. Audit Partners at Big 4 CPA firms can and will bill at ~$750/hr plus expenses. These are for large mult-million/billion corps though. Tax partners generally bill less. So $500 is definitely not unheard of.

However it's customary to negotiate and the client may only have to pay 70% or something like that.

In this situation, I doubt he's using a national/big 4 firm, just some local guy. It's clear that Uber was unprepared and this guy had to pull together financial statements/trial balances which can be time consuming, but given the facts presented I can't believe he's charging this much, even with the 3 people working on your returns.

First you need to talk to him and tell him you're not going to pay that much and if he doesn't budge you need to make known you'll never do business with him again.

Second, I can't believe you don't have simple bookkeeping software set up. Learn your lesson and learn some simple accounting and use an accounting system.
 
"internet marketing friends"? what a fucking hater. People always have issues with people younger than them making more.
 
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