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What sets Mainstay Accounting apart from other accounting firms?

We take a “new school” approach. Rather than confining ourselves to a single focus, we consider all tax exposures — providing a comprehensive and sophisticated approach tailored to your business. Our case management model ensures a dedicated contact point throughout the relationship, with constant open communication.

What services does Mainstay Accounting offer?

Four core services: tax preparation beyond compliance, streamlined bookkeeping, strategic consulting for exposure management, and due diligence preparation for business transactions. All delivered in house by the same team.

How does Mainstay approach tax preparation differently?

Our tax preparation goes beyond producing a compliant return. We focus on financial forecasting and coordination with your bankers and attorneys, with an approach tailored to your business objectives rather than to the filing deadline.

What makes your bookkeeping solutions unique?

We complement your in-house staff rather than replacing them, providing support that improves efficiency and reduces expense. The goal is that proper bookkeeping goes beyond recording entries — and that nobody is doing cleanup work at filing time.

How does Mainstay address exposure management?

Our consulting considers exposures across the whole of a business owner's endeavors, coordinating with all of your professional advisors to outline options that insulate your business, family and net worth from unintentional tax exposure.

What is due diligence preparation, and why is it essential?

Due diligence preparation matters most when you're selling or transferring your business. Our team works to maximize your returns and fully prepare your company for the buyer's team, reducing the costly expenses that come with an unprepared business.

Which industries do you specialize in?

Construction, real estate investment, high net worth families, NIL athletes and their families, and wineries and viticulture. Each has tax treatment that rewards specific knowledge, and each is led by someone here with direct experience in it.

What areas do you serve?

We're headquartered in Hudson, Ohio, in the Akron–Cleveland corridor, and we serve privately held businesses across the country. Regional feel, national footprint — we work in person or remotely depending on what the engagement needs.

Are your services personalized to my business?

Yes. We start with a deep read of your specific needs, challenges and goals. Our services are tailored to align with your objectives — we don't run a standard package and adjust the invoice.

How do I schedule a consultation?

Call 330.870.3601 or send a message through our contact page. You'll get a short conversation with someone who can actually answer questions — not an intake form and a wait.

What information should I have ready for a first conversation?

Nothing formal. We will ask what the business does, roughly what size it is, how the books are handled now, and what is prompting the call. If you happen to have last year's return or a recent profit and loss statement in front of you the conversation gets more specific faster, but it is not required and you should not send anything sensitive before we are engaged.

How do you handle pricing?

Pricing is quoted for the work in front of us rather than billed by the hour against an open-ended estimate, and you see it in writing before anything starts. What it costs depends on the size and complexity of the business and which services you need, so we will not quote a number before we understand the situation. You will not get a surprise invoice from us.

Twenty minutes with a Mainstay team member.

No form maze, no funnel. Tell us what the business is and where you want it to go. If we can help, we'll say how. If we can't, we'll say that.

Hudson office
77 Milford Drive, Suite 204
Hudson, OH 44236
Hours
Mon–Fri · 8:30am–5:00pm ET