Welcome

This website provides online resources to assist you in the tax process and in your financial decision-making. These tools include downloadable tax forms and publications, financial calculators, news and links to other useful sites.

We welcome your questions or comments.

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Contact us to request a client portal account, in order to securely transfer computer files of any size to our firm.

Tax Prep & Planning

While a computer software program may help find deductions, there’s no substitute for the quality of service and advice you’ll receive from an experienced tax professional.

Here are a few of the benefits you’ll reap when using our service:

  • We’ll prepare all of the appropriate forms and record all figures and calculations accurately.

  • We’ll make sure that you receive all of the deductions and credits to which you are entitled.

  • We’ll file your return electronically to speed delivery of refunds.

  • We’ll work with you to adjust your payroll withholding to make sure you send the right amount to each tax authority – no more, no less.

  • We’ll show you how to adjust your finances to take advantage of tax benefits on future returns.

Strategies

  • Splitting income among several family members or legal entities to take advantage of lower income tax brackets

  • Shifting income or expenses from one year to another when it can yield a lower tax rate

  • Deferring or eliminating tax liability through use of tax-advantaged investment vehicles

  • Tracking all expenses eligible for itemized deduction

  • Taking advantage of tax credits

  • Adjustment of payroll withholding

Small Business Accounting

Businesses of all shapes and sizes depend on accurate, insightful financial information to manage their day-to-day operations, capitalize on opportunities, and sustain profitability. We lend our expert support to meet your accounting needs so that you can focus your time and energy on building a strong business.

We will assist you in maintaining your chart of accounts to capture all of your financial transactions, provide the right information to manage your business, and prepare federal and state tax returns.

When you use our professional accounting services, you get more than a collection of records and reports. You get the benefit of our skills, experience, and expertise. We’re happy to invest the time to make sure that you understand and utilize all of the information we provide. Call us whenever you have a question or concern.

QuickBooks

Set-Up & Conversion

Although QuickBooks is very easy to use, it takes a bit of expertise and foresight to design the system for maximum benefit and effective control. Moreover, a new system set-up or conversion presents the opportunity to address long-standing gaps, inefficiencies, and annoyances. You don’t do it often, so you might as well do it right!

Although we tailor each engagement to each client’s needs, here is a list of QuickBooks Set-Up services that we offer:

  • Enter transactions since the start date using tools to import multiple transaction types and large quantities of data

  • Assess accounting and reporting requirements

  • Establish hardware and software specifications

  • Install the accounting software

  • Design and implement the chart of accounts, loading balances as of the start date

  • Record outstanding accounts receivables and payables

  • Enter ending statement bank balances and outstanding checks, deposits

  • Compare trial balances from the old and new systems to ensure that all data was transferred correctly

Tune-up & Training

A QuickBooks Tune-Up is a great way to prepare for tax time, an important meeting, or a periodic review of your business strategy. In a few short hours, your QuickBooks professional can review transactions, clean up stray entries, balance the general ledger to subsidiary ledgers, and adjust the chart of accounts to reflect changes in your business model. A Tune-Up can help you make better decisions, minimize the ill-effects of undetected errors, and keep money flowing in the right direction,

Whether you’ve engaged us to help with your implementation or you simply need a refresher course on the system, we can provide training on using QuickBooks to manage your business. We conduct sessions at your location and adapt the course content to your set-up and business issues.[No need to spend time on capabilities that you won’t use!] We’ll spend as much or as little time as you need on each topic, and respond to any questions and concerns.

About Us

Founded in Redding, California in 1986, our firm provides quality, personalized financial guidance to individuals and businesses. Our expertise ranges from basic tax management and accounting to more in-depth services such as tax, estate, and financial planning.

Our Mission

We work hard to help you, our client, understand and manage your business and personal finances.  This includes comprehensive tax planning and solutions for business problems.  We help you with the research and analysis needed to make informed decisions about tax compliance and strategy, as well as business management.

Our Team

Bruce Hirst  (bruce@hirstcpa.com)

I graduated with a degree in Business Management from Brigham Young University in 1974, and earned a degree in Accounting from the University of Utah in 1980. I have been providing tax and accounting services in the Redding area since earning my CPA license in 1983.  Before entering public accounting in 1980, I was financial controller of a Utah corporation in the hotel and restaurant industry.

I am a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.  I have completed the course in Advanced Personal Financial Planning offered by the California Certified Public Accountants Foundation for Education and Research.

Diane Hirst  (office@hirstcpa.com)

Diane manages the front office and schedules appointments during tax season.  She graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in Health Education in 1978.  She makes sure Bruce stays healthy during the long hours of tax season!

Industries Served

Attorneys • Consultants • Contractors • Insurance Agents • Investors • Physicians • Real Estate Professionals

Contact Us

We welcome your questions or comments. Feel free to contact us at any time.

Bruce W. Hirst, CPA
1135 Pine Street, Suite 011
Redding, CA 96001

Phone    (530) 246-2220
Fax        (530) 232-3620