Ashish Acharya

About Ashish Acharya

Owner | Investor | CPA helping investors mitigate taxes and manage finances. Ashish began his career at Ernst and Young (EY), a Big Four accounting firm in Atlanta, where he worked on multiple private and publicly traded Fortune 500 companies. During his tax and accounting consultation roles, Ashish has developed a deep understanding of various complicated tax issues, tax planning opportunities, and tax-efficient real estate acquisitions. Early on, Ashish understood that most of the small businesses, unlike large businesses, don’t have access to good a CPA. Ashish founded his firm to fill that void and now serves a select number of clients who have entrusted their finances with him. Together with his strategic team, he helps clients address their biggest concerns: mitigating taxes and preserving their wealth. He has helped countless small businesses with extremely valuable tax plannings. He uses a consultative process to gain a detailed understanding of his clients’ deepest values and goals. He then employs customized recommendations designed to address each client’s unique needs and goals beyond simply preparing tax returns. In his engagement model, a client becomes the CEO of the client’s financial life, and he becomes the client’s personal CFO. He deciphers complicated financial and tax information and delivers insight that leads to smart financial decisions. Viewing your business from the perspective of a growth-conscious CPA should enable your business to act on the insights, opportunities, or problems revealed by data as they occur – before it is too late. He is an expert advisor. Ashish has invested in real estate for the last 5 years. He is personally involved in the underwriting, acquisition, repositioning, and management of a $3M SFR portfolio. Ashish\'s immediate goal is to add commercial real estate assets to his portfolio. He also founded Evaluate Deals website to help investors perform a comprehensive analysis of their real estate deals.

Experience

1. Founder

   INVESTOR FRIENDLY CPA®

   Dec 2020 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US

   We work with clients from all 50 States.We provide:Tax Preparation - Tax Planning (year-round)- Bookkeeping/AccountingResponsive: We are a text, phone, or email away. We pride ourselves on being available for our business partners when they need us the most.Tax Planning: We are just not number crunchers. We focus more on tax planning with the goal of saving you taxes rather than just doing your taxes- Tax-efficient entity structuring- Federal and state tax credits, incentives, and deductions- Cost segregation consulting (Not performing)- Strategic tax planning- Project cash flow and profitability analysis- Tax reform guidance- Cashflow management to understand cashDon’t LOSE money on taxes.

Education

• Southeastern Louisiana University

  Bachelor's degree, Accounting

  2009 — 2013

• University of Georgia - Terry College of Business

  Master's degree, Accounting

  2013 — 2014