You need Virgina as your accountant for your business. If you have a small business or multiple sources of personal income she is EXCELLENT. She talks to me in plain english, not accounting jargon, so that I can understand everything that is happening with my financials and tax returns. Virginia spent significant time showing me how Quickbooks worked for my bookkeeping, explained how some of the tax code works, and generally helped me get confident and informed about my business's financial health. She is extremely diligent and patient with bookkeeping in Quickbooks and proactive about taxes at the end of the year. Virginia is also a good human, during a difficult period in my business she was conservative abut how much time she spent on our books to keep our costs low. She is direct and to the point. A valuable asset that I am very grateful for! read more

Finding the right CPA is like dating. You have to wade through the sea of options available, sift through the bullshit, sometimes get burned - but I tell you now, it's well worth it when you find the right person. I wanted to find a person with the full package: experience, energy, resiliency, flexibility, and humor (although, I did initially imagine a Ben Affleck-esque accountant coming to save me with guns a blazing). My friends and family and colleagues said nothing - verbally. They just stared. It probably didn't help that March 15 was creeping up and my QBO was a mess. I was an utter mess of anxiety with the shakes. I'm not a praying person. But I prayed for a miracle. Cimmer agreed to meet with me and look over what I would need in order to complete all the required tax forms (I had a vague idea of what those were). In that short time, I knew she was going to be my Baywatch red floaty. And it was just like in the show!! She sprinted in with the red floaty in tow, hair whirling and all, to save me from drowning. The best part? She didn't just pull me out, she taught me how to swim! She gave me the tools I needed to clean up my books, showed me what my spreadsheets and numbers should look like, and translated the jargons of QBO/accounting/finance/numbers. She set me on track and pro'd through the taxes. I cannot put into words how much gratitude and appreciation I have for Cimmer. She is exceptional with so much knowledge and experience. I needed a person, not to do the grind work (that's what I needed to learn), but to have solutions with plans and execute processes and improvements. She's my rock star and I am ecstatic to have her in my corner. read more

We started our business in June 2019.  Our first CPA seemed impatient with our questions, and was very rushed completing our returns at the last minute.  He did not inspire confidence. Our experience with Virginia has been like night and day.  She is a true coach and collaborator.  She wants you to understand your finances and is proactive in helping you make present decisions with an eye toward future growth.  Her ongoing, engaged process is way more helpful than that of most CPAs, whom you only hear from once a year on April 10th. We're so glad we found her! read more

I needed a CPA to handle my corporate taxes for my software business. After calling a few places I decided on Jumpstart CPAs. Virginia was very helpful and went through all my business transactions and categorized them in QuickBooks. In addition she also produced a profit and loss report as well as a balance sheet and filed my corporate taxes for me. I am confident I will be using Jumpstart CPAs for the foreseeable future as she was very responsive and thorough much more than my previous accountant. read more

Cimmer is the best CPA ever! She has helped manage my business finances since inception and just helped me file my business and personal taxes. She also gives me advice and resources to help grow my business. She is patient, hard working and has been a tremendous asset! read more

Will take your entire retainer then tell you she doesn't like your working relationship and cancels meetings less than 24hrs in advance. Never met someone so condescending and unprofessional. Asked me if I knew the difference between credits and debits as a graduated finance major. Horrible. Don't spend your money here. read more

I hired Cimmer to help me set up my new business, catch my books up for 2017 and do my tax returns. Cimmer has been a delight to work with. She is efficient and knowledgable and offers her services at a good price. She has taken so much stress off me, I cannot say enough good things about her. If you are looking for a new CPA definitely set up a consultation with Cimmer! read more

Simply The Best! Family Practice Office, March 29, 2018 "We have now worked with Cimmer for more than 8 months and her tenacity, guidance and council have been priceless. During her tenure, she has successfully transitioned our Family Practice office to Quickbooks Online, Intuit Payroll, provided Tax Services and works to help us with continuous improvement projects with quality beyond expectations. A monumental effort on her part to understand our business. She approaches her work with energy and gets the job done." read more

Virginia has done a great job keeping my consultancy on top of its accounting and tax reporting needs, and more importantly, has helped me feel confident that those aspects are under control. She is responsive and patient, and has been a pleasure to work with. She also saved me a few thousand dollars on my taxes by making sure that I was properly taking QBI deductions. Thanks Virginia! read more

I have known Cimmer for 13 years now, and she has been a good friend and mentor to me since I began my career in accounting. I am now a CPA and with my own business, and I can't say I would be here without the help and advice of her along the way. Cimmer is a PwC alumni, and for the past 20 years has had many financial & accounting leadership positions with brand name companies in the Silicon Valley. She is honest and trustworthy, and I know you will be so thankful you have her as your accountant! read more

Cimmer was tremendous help when it came to cleaning up our digital version of shoebox accounting. Thank you for all the help!

We needed help to get past taxes caught up after starting a new business and were under a tight deadline from the state. Cimmer promptly responded to my initial inquiry and got me started the same day to get our financials imported into Quickbooks Online. Over the following several days she kept in close contact and kept me focused on the required information she needed to file our taxes. Despite multiple power outages for both of us, we still got the taxes filed on time. One thing that impressed me was that even when Cimmer encountered some problems with the Quickbooks software, she didn't get flustered and instead called their dedicated support and worked through the problem. We can't always do things on our own, so it's important to know when you need a professional to do the job right. I'm looking forward to a long business relationship with JumpStart CPAs to keep our financals in order and to make future tax filings a breeze. read more