1. Fees Based on Our Activity versus Fees Based on
Your Income.
Our fees are based on the number of homeowners and the
actual transaction activity. In contrast, many other firms
base their fees on a percentage of your income. As a result,
the fees they charge bear no direct relationship to the accounting
or collection activity performed.
2. Accounting Professionals versus Office
Clerks.
Homeowner Association Accounting Services is a division
of AccounTax, Inc. All of our owners and employees are
experienced accounting professionals with many years of experience
preparing financial statements, tax returns and accounting
reports. We do not employ untrained clerks to collect your
funds or prepare your financial statements. Our goal is to
relieve you of as many paperwork headaches as possible so that you
can concentrate on the effective management of your
association.
3. True Financial Statements versus Cash Disbursement
Schedules.
Our financial statements are prepared by trained
accountants on the accrual basis using generally accepted accounting
practices. Our financial statements will give you up to date
accounts receivable and accounts payable information. Many of
our competitors are not trained accountants and their statements are
merely a cash receipt and disbursement list.
4. Proposals That Reassure versus Contracts That
Trap..
Our proposal to provide you with accounting services is
not a binding contract on your association. The only party
that is bound to perform is us ! If you are not fully
satisfied with our performance, for any reason, you can cease using
our services. Compare that with a firm that requires you to
sign an annual contract. We know that you are not bound to us
by anything more than the quality of our service and we will
continuously strive to keep you satisfied.
We realize that many of our competitors charge all of their fees
up front. They do this to make it difficult for you to get
competitive bids or change to a better accounting firm. If you
are subject to this onerous billing practice, we will help you
overcome this barrier to changing to a better accountant by
providing our services at no additional cost for the
remainder of the year.
5. Collection Efforts versus Cheap Talk.
We make an active effort to help your association collect
its assessments. Past due notices are sent out promptly on a
schedule set by you and we follow them up with a personal telephone
call from our office. If requested, we can accept credit card
payments to aid in collection. Bad checks are promptly turned
over to the prosecuting attorney’s office for collection. Liens
are prepared by our office on a timely basis. When all else
fails, we have retained the services of an attorney with years of
experience in filing collection lawsuits against delinquent
homeowners. If your association has had difficulty with
collections, then its time to consider a new accounting firm.
6. Pride in Performance versus Pride in
Numbers.
We are a professional accounting firm and our reputation
is everything to us. Our business mission is to provide our
clients with the best quality personal service at a fair
price. Our personal goals are to create a business that our
family will be proud to carry on. Our largest competitor claims
that it has hundreds of clients, and you wonder why they don’t know
or care who you are.
We hope that you will give us the opportunity to demonstrate the
quality of service that professional accountants can provide to your
association.
