Every US bookkeeping, accounting, payroll, and tax engagement at IMAAR Associates is reviewed by Muhammad Abbas before it reaches you — a licensed US CPA, not just an offshore data-entry sign-off.
Muhammad Abbas is a CPA licensed in Washington State with over 15 years of professional experience in accounting, finance, tax compliance, and internal and external audit. He is also a Chartered Accountant (ACA, Chartered Accountants Ireland) and an FCMA (Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan), with a track record working with publicly listed companies and internationally recognized audit firms.
He specializes in US tax preparation, bookkeeping, financial reporting, and virtual CFO services, and holds Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor status — the only ProAdvisor credential currently held at the firm. As CEO of IMAAR Associates, he's also an IRS Certifying Acceptance Agent, authorized to certify identity documents for ITIN applications and listed in the IRS's public CAA directory for Pakistan.
Licensed, active, and verifiable on the Washington State Board of Accountancy's public licensee register.
Authorized by the IRS to certify identity documents for ITIN applications; listed in the IRS's public CAA directory.
Completed Intuit's QuickBooks Online certification training and exams — reviews every QuickBooks-related engagement personally.
Your dedicated bookkeeping or accounting team — based in Lahore, Pakistan — handles the day-to-day work: transaction categorization, reconciliations, payroll runs, financial statement preparation. Before anything reaches you, Abbas reviews the close for accuracy, US GAAP treatment, and tax-readiness. That's what "reviewed by a US CPA" means on every page of this site — a licensed second set of eyes on the numbers, not a rebrand of offshore data entry.
He's also the firm's only Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, so QuickBooks-specific engagements — setup, troubleshooting, ProAdvisor-level configuration — route through him directly rather than being distributed across multiple certified staff.
Yes. Every US engagement — bookkeeping, accounting, payroll, or tax — is reviewed by Muhammad Abbas, CPA, before it reaches the client. Your dedicated team handles the day-to-day work; he reviews the output.
It means a licensed US CPA checks the accuracy, US GAAP treatment, and tax-readiness of your financials before they're finalized — not that a CPA performs every line of data entry. The day-to-day categorization and reconciliation is done by your dedicated bookkeeping team; Abbas's review is the final check before anything reaches you.
Currently, yes — the Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor credential is held by Muhammad Abbas personally, and QuickBooks-related engagements are reviewed by him directly.
His CPA license (Washington State) is verifiable on the Washington State Board of Accountancy's public licensee register. His IRS Certifying Acceptance Agent authorization is listed in the IRS's public CAA directory for Pakistan.
