Your numbers, kept straight and explained in plain English
We look after the books, payroll and tax for about eighty small businesses in Monroe County, on a fixed monthly fee you agree before we start. You get a partner’s direct line, not a ticket number.
- CPA partners
- Fixed monthly fees
- Since 2011
1900 Monroe Avenue, Suite 2, Brighton, NY 14618 Get directions
What we look after
Take one thing off your desk, or all of it.
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Bookkeeping
Monthly reconciliations and clean books you can actually read, in QuickBooks or Xero.
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Payroll
Run on time, filed on time, with every notice from the state handled by us.
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Business tax
Federal and New York returns for LLCs, S-corps and partnerships, planned in the fall rather than discovered in April.
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Personal tax
For owners, landlords and anyone whose return has stopped being simple.
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New business set-up
Entity choice, EIN, sales tax registration and a bookkeeping system that will not need replacing in a year.
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Advisory
Cash-flow forecasts, pricing, buying or selling a business: the conversations before the big decisions.
Two partners, one phone number each
Harrow & Finch opened in 2011 when Miriam Harrow and Daniel Finch left a large firm to do the work they liked best: looking after small businesses closely enough to know what is going on.
We keep the practice small on purpose. Every client has a partner they can call, and that partner knows the business well enough to answer without opening a file.
Miriam Harrow, CPA and Daniel Finch, CPA
How we work
- A fixed monthly fee, agreed in writing
- A partner’s direct line
- Replies within one working day
- Nothing filed without you seeing it first
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Since 2011
on Monroe Avenue in Brighton
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About 80
small businesses on a monthly fee
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1 day
for a partner’s reply, on working days
Who does the work
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Miriam Harrow, CPA
Partner — tax
Twenty years in tax, the last fourteen of them here. Will tell you the answer you did not want, kindly.
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Daniel Finch, CPA
Partner — advisory and bookkeeping
Runs the bookkeeping team and the forecasting work. Reads a cash-flow statement the way other people read a menu.
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Grace Adeyemi
Senior bookkeeper
Keeps thirty sets of books straight and has never once lost a receipt.
Licensed and certified
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Certified Public Accountants
Both partners, licensed in New York State
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IRS authorized e-file provider
Federal and state returns filed electronically
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QuickBooks ProAdvisors
Certified in QuickBooks Online and Desktop
How it starts
Three steps, no obligation until the second one.
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A free first meeting
An hour, in person or by video, about where the business is and what is getting in the way.
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A fixed quote
One page: what we will do each month and what it costs. No hourly billing.
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We take it over
We collect what we need from your old accountant or your shoebox, and the first monthly summary arrives within six weeks.
Fixed fees, agreed up front
Most clients land in one of these. Every quote is written before any work starts.
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Books only
from $250/month
Monthly bookkeeping and a one-page summary.
- Monthly reconciliations
- Receipt capture
- Year-end pack for your tax preparer
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Most people start here
Books and tax
from $450/month
The books, plus your business and personal returns.
- Everything in Books only
- Business and personal tax returns
- Fall planning meeting
- Notices handled
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Everything
from $750/month
For owners who want the finance function run for them.
- Everything in Books and tax
- Payroll
- Quarterly forecast
- A partner on call
Dates to keep
The federal and New York deadlines our clients ask about most.
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Extended returns due
Personal and corporate returns that went on extension in the spring.
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Payroll return for the third quarter
Form 941. We file it for our payroll clients.
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Corporate estimated tax
The fourth payment for calendar-year corporations.
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Fourth-quarter estimated payment
For anyone who pays tax quarterly.
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W-2s and 1099s out
We send them for our payroll clients by this date.
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S corporation and partnership returns
Or an extension. Your draft comes to you by March 1.
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Personal returns due
Federal and New York, or an extension, and the first estimated payment of the year.
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Second-quarter estimated payment
For anyone who pays tax quarterly.
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Extended business returns due
S corporations and partnerships, and the third estimated payment.
Questions people ask first
What does the first meeting cost?
Nothing. It is an hour of conversation so we both know whether we should work together.
Can you take over mid-year?
Yes. We collect what exists from your previous accountant or your own records, and any catch-up work is quoted separately before we begin.
Do you work with businesses outside Rochester?
Most clients are in Monroe County, but the work is done online and we have clients across New York State.
Which software do you use?
QuickBooks Online and Xero. We will recommend one if you have neither.
Start with an hour
Book a free first meeting. If we are not the right fit we will say so and point you somewhere better.
Book a first meeting
Tell us a little about the business and when suits you. A partner replies within one working day.
- Phone
- (585) 555-0171
- Address
- 1900 Monroe Avenue, Suite 2
Brighton, NY 14618Get directions - Getting here
Suite 2 is on the second floor; the stairs are just inside the Monroe Avenue door.
There’s free parking behind the building.
Hours
| Mon–Fri | 9 am – 5 pm |
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| Sat, Sun | Closed |
Evening appointments by arrangement, January to April.