If you're searching for an online accountant, you're probably tired of dropping off a shoebox of receipts once a year and getting a different stranger on the phone every tax season. An online accountant from IMAAR Associates is different: one dedicated accountant assigned to your business, reachable by video call, phone and email, working from a secure cloud setup, and reviewed every month by a US-licensed CPA. No rotating support desk, no in-person office requirement — just a real ongoing relationship with someone who knows your numbers.
A lot of "online accounting" is really just data entry with no one behind it — you upload files and hope someone competent looks at them. That's not what we mean by an online accountant. You're matched with a named accountant and a small support team who own your account, learn your business, and stay reachable throughout the year, not just at tax time.
You're not routed to whoever picks up. Your online accountant knows your entity type, your industry, and your history, so every conversation picks up where the last one left off.
Recurring check-in calls, screen-shares to walk through your financials, and quick video answers when something doesn't add up — communication that feels like a relationship, not a support ticket.
Your accountant flags things proactively — a cash flow dip, an estimated tax payment coming due, a deduction you're missing — instead of waiting for you to ask the right question.
Most small business owners don't need a CFO and can't justify a full-time in-house accountant — they need someone senior enough to trust with real decisions, available on a schedule that fits a business owner's calendar, not a big firm's. That's the gap an online accountant for small business is built to fill: accountant-level judgment, sized and priced for a business with a handful of employees rather than a hundred.
Because your accountant is dedicated to your account rather than juggling it alongside forty other clients as a junior task, small decisions get answered quickly — a text or a short call — while bigger ones get a proper conversation before you commit to them.
We start with a kickoff call to understand your entity type, current books, and what "good" looks like for your business. From there, your accountant and their support team handle the recurring work in the background — reconciliations, categorization, financial statements — and bring you into a short recurring call to walk through what changed and what's coming up, whether that's monthly or quarterly depending on your plan.
Between calls, you reach your accountant directly by email or a quick video message rather than submitting a request into a general inbox. Every deliverable that reaches you has already been reviewed by Muhammad Abbas, CPA (Washington State), so the person you're talking to and the numbers you're looking at have both been through the same standard of oversight.
An online accountant is one way to think about working with us. If you're focused more on the delivery process than the relationship, or you specifically want bookkeeping rather than accounting, these related pages may fit what you're looking for:
It means the accountant you work with is assigned to you and reachable remotely — by video call, phone, and email — instead of sitting in a local office you visit in person. You still get a real relationship with a real person who knows your business; they just don't need a desk down the street to do it.
You're assigned a dedicated accountant and bookkeeping team for your account. That team stays consistent month to month, so you're not re-explaining your business to a new person every time you have a question, and your accountant actually knows your entity type, industry, and history.
Video calls, phone, and email — whichever mix you prefer. Most clients do a recurring check-in call each month or quarter plus ad hoc email for quick questions, and your accountant reaches out proactively rather than waiting for you to chase them down.
It's built specifically for small businesses. You get accountant-level attention — someone who can talk through cash flow, entity structure, and tax timing — without paying for a full-time in-house hire or a big local firm's overhead.
Yes. All work happens inside secure, US-based cloud platforms like QuickBooks Online — we don't require you to move data outside those systems. Access is role-based, logged, and revocable, and every engagement is covered by a signed confidentiality agreement.
