I have been working with Elisabeth Valin of Inside Out Accounting for more than 4 years. Her work,…read morekeeping my books accurate and up to date, is just exceptional. Her work is always timely and she or Brion are available in a pinch to answer questions that may come up. I highly recommend this firm.

Inside Out Accounting LLC serves the needs of a small business with large aspirations…read more Inside Out understands the complexities of running a business - large or small - and provides ready solutions for all accounting issues. I have served as an administrator in the business world for over 30 years, coordinating bookkeeping and other functions for a variety of proprietors. Inside Out has out-performed all other accounting/bookkeeping consultants I've worked with. Generosity of spirit plus hard-headed and efficient problem solving are this firm's hallmarks. Reasonable fees and ease of communication are also integral to Inside Out's user-friendly approach.

I reached out to Carol to see if she can help me set up a bookkeeping system to help track business…read moreexpenses, and she took a good 20 minutes to chat with me about how I currently work. With her insightful questions, she quickly helped me diagnose the issue which doesn't have to do with bookkeeping but is really about my needing to diligently enter all my expenditures at the point of transaction. She also walked me through how Quickbooks works and kindly helped me understand my next steps which wasn't to hire her. I can't recommend her enough to folks who do need a bookkeeper!

We have used The Balancing Act for several years. Carol and NIcole are professional, friendly and…read morevery easy to work with. Nicole always responds in a timely manner and is very knowledgeable. We highly recommend them for all your bookkeeping needs. Very reasonable rates also.

Our company worked with KYB a while ago and while our professional relationship has technically…read morebeen over for a few years now, the benefit of having used them in our early years just keeps on giving. We started out as a boostrapped startup in SF- no easy feat! We had just enough revenue to pay ourselves with not much surplus, and not much demand for an accounting person. We used KYB a few hours a week doing payroll, A/P, and A/R. They were even kind enough to let us use their office as an official mailing address until our company had a physical office. As we grew, KYB was able to grow with us. A few hours per week turned into many hours per week and another kind, professional, and responsive KYB staffer. Eventually we outgrew KYB and brought finances in-house. The transition was graceful and they were very helpful with residual questions. We now pull in over $25MM in revenue a year and have three full time, in house finance people. The best part is this: Last month, we underwent an IRS audit of our 2010 financials (a year we were still with KYB), and just received a 'no change' report- a clean audit! I will be forever grateful to this awesome, competent, and patient set of individuals.

Oh Yelp, I knew it would happen eventually. I mean, I go to Yelp for recommendations on everything,…read moreso why not for a book keeper for my business? KYB was very highly rated and I thought I had found my solution. Boy was I wrong.... Maybe it's because I used Becky and KYB for book keeping rather than tax prep, but my experience here was most certainly NOT 5 star. Becky seemed great when I met for my initial consult, but from then on, my books were handled by an assistant, rather than Becky herself. First mistake. Then aformentioned assistant racks up huge amounts of hours without warning me and when I confronted her about it, she BLAMED ME. Now, I have been in customer service for many, many years and rule numero uno is that you never blame the freaking customer!!! Especially when I was politely asking her why my bill had quadruped with no notice. She explains that the extra time has come from me not giving her certain info that she has had to manually figure out, hence the extra time. Fair enough. From that point on, I get her the info she asks for - organize it beautifully and send it to her on time. And yet, nothing changes. She continues to bill me the maximum amount of hours she can on my account despite my efforts to make things more efficient. When I asked her and Becky about it, the response was basically that I should just get over it and expect to keep paying that amount, though there was absolutely NO evidence of her assistant doing the amount of work those bills required. There were also mistakes with them sending me other clients invoices, lost packets of my own info that never turned up and I never received ONE financial report for my business! Do yourself a favor - if you are a small biz owner like me, STAY AWAY. There are plenty of other options out there. I have a great book keeper now if you need a referral...... UPDATE: So mysteriously after my post there are several new reviews extolling the virtues of how great this place is.....all from new users with only ONE review: on KYB Bookeeping! How ironic. Look, no matter how many cheesy great reviews their friends may post, it still not going to keep them from sucking. San Francisco has TONS more bookeepers that will do a WAY better job - trust. UPDATE 2: Due to the overwhelming response by other Yelpers asking for a reference, my new book keeper is booked solid! If you want a reference, I'll see what I can do.......

Coming from a numbers freak and a rockstar real estate mogul (just kidding) - I can seriously vouch…read morefor this wonderful man we have to come to know as Jay Shaw. I initally interviewed over 13 CPA's and was starting to lose hope as I seemed to know more than they did about the tax process...that is, until I met with him. He has a ton of experience and is specifically helpful with tax planning, something I am very sensitive about. And no, I'm not a yuppie - but if I am going to work my ass off, I want to take full advantage of my deductions and future retirement benefits. In the future - I know that I will use him for my business in addition to my personal, and I have successfully referred him to 12 of my friends and 6 of my work associates, including other broker's, managers, financial planners, and company owner's. Wouldn't you want the best for your friend's and associate's? I am sure that if you are in need of an excellent CPA, do NOT go to a run of the mill, non-local shop. My advice is to call him and see what he can help you with - you won't regret it one bit!

Ten stars and more if that's possible ! I have been working with Jay at California Accounting…read moreCenter for over 10 years . He incorporated our business, does all of our accounting, does our corporate tax returns, payroll and much more. He has been a pivotal element in the success of our business. He certainly saved me a lot of corporate paperwork headache. Everybody there is fantastic to work with and they have provided us with a wide range of business expertise. Whenever we need any help, they have no hesitation to step in. I highly recommend Jay and his team. They get 5 stars for being extremely talented accountants and an extra 5 stars for just being good, solid, fun people to work with.

Jeff and the Streamline Bookkeeping team have made my life SO much easier! I started working with…read morehim at least 5 years ago now. He's helped me make sense of so many aspects of my business as I've grown from a sole prop to an S-Corp with employees, and now I also have an LLC. The team is meticulous and they also check in with me when needed to make sure everything is being recorded and tracked properly. They prepare all the reports and make sure my tax person has what she needs. Jeff meets with me regularly to review everything and always takes the time to explain things and help me feel empowered about my business. Streamline makes it all manageable and I'm so grateful for their support! If you are hesitating at all, I HIGHLY recommend that you invest in getting help sooner rather than later. You won't be disappointed!

Streamline Bookkeeping has been an indispensable asset to my business. They have saved me priceless…read moretime and energy. Thank you for simplifying and organizing our books!

I have worked with Bob Leyman and his team for many years and I remain extremely grateful for his…read moreexpert guidance for both personal and business tax preparation. His extensive knowledge and experience ensure reliable and timely information for what are often complex and ever-changing rules.

Bob Lehman and his team is always available to answer questions, very patient, Proffesional and…read morewhat I like the most available for face to face meetings. Bob has many years of experience behind him, he has a strong follow up process and very particular with all details. He has solved some tax complex problems both for me and people I work with. Highly recommend him and his company

Meseret exhibits an exceptional level of professionalism, punctuality, integrity, and thoroughness…read morein her tax services. She is a dependable Certified Public Accountant.

I regret hiring Meseret. I could have calculated my own returns in less time than it took me to…read moreplead with her (unsuccessfully) to fix the ~$5000 in mistakes she made. The problems all started when I found a mistake she made in our returns, which would have cost us $4000: she hadn't claimed an exemption for us even though I told her we qualified for it. She initially refused to discuss over email, forcing me to come in person where she didn't seem to understand what I was saying, and instead inflicted a confusing lecture about how we couldn't claim it (we can). My impression is that she was not familiar with this common exemption. She seemed pridefully unwilling to admit her mistake. After many more emails in which I pled with her to fix this error detailing the exact form and line, with links to the IRS instructions, she changed her story, implying that I must have had undisclosed IRA transactions and was therefore attempting tax fraud. It seemed like she was not aware that IRA contributions can be made retroactively, and that confused her. I finally provided her with detailed month-by-month IRA account statements showing the exact dates of those transactions from a decade ago, and she relented, and recomputed our returns. As a finale performance, she unnecessarily had us claim the full amount of a lifetime exemption (first-time home buyers'), even though we only needed a portion of it. This would have eliminated our ability to use the remainder in future years (costing us maybe $600-$1000 in the future). When I asked her to fix it, she incorrectly claimed that the exemption can only be used for our first house purchase (false), and she stubbornly inflicted another infuriating lecture upon me. I finally decided to quit wasting my time and file the returns myself. I didn't pay her hundreds of dollars to spend hours trying to educate her while she accuses me of fraud and gives misinformed lecture after lecture. Meseret has a lot of good reviews from people who I'd guess haven't ever double-checked her work before - or maybe those people don't actually exist. Please double-check her work, or better yet don't hire her in the first place. It might be a costly and time-consuming mistake.

Crystal has been a life-saver. We've been working with her for most of the year and she has been…read morethorough, responsive, and her attention to detail unprecedented. She loves what she does and it shows. She has even done a couple of trainings with our team to help us better understand QuickBooks and for the first time in almost 10-years of being in business, I feel like I have a deep understanding of my books and cashflow. We've been just thrilled to find her.

Crystal provides two days of Quickbooks training to get me rolling doing bookkeeping for a 20-unit…read moreproperty management company. She was clear, concise, patient and a very knowledgeable instructor. She left me with short-cut commands, a totally streamlined and efficient chart of accounts, automated invoicing, and a much stronger general sense of the QB robustness. I highly recommend her to anyone needing any level or amount of bookkeeping work, or training.