CPA-led guidance for owners who want clear numbers, smart decisions, and a steady hand when the IRS calls. Seattle-based, serving clients nationwide.
Diana Akhmerova, CPA — Founder
Understand what's really happening in your business so you can make decisions with confidence, not guesswork.
From the IRS to state regulators, you'll have an experienced advocate in your corner when it matters most.
Keep more of what you earn through proactive tax planning and a finance function that scales with you.
When the bookkeeper that got you this far can't take you any further, you need an advisor who can handle the recurring work, anticipate what's coming, and stand beside you when regulators come knocking.
Tell us where your business has been, where it is now, and where you want it to go. No pressure, no jargon.
We design a scope of work around what you actually need—whether that's full-service accounting, tax strategy, or audit defense.
You get a CPA on your side year-round, not just at tax time. Decisions that win, made together.
An unexpected letter from the IRS. Years of returns that piled up while life happened. A business that outgrew the spreadsheet you've been keeping the books on — and now you're spending Sundays buried in receipts instead of running the company. A divorce or inheritance you didn't ask to navigate. Or simply a longtime advisor who retired and left you wondering whom to trust next.
Whatever it is, you are not alone — and there is a clear way forward. My clients arrive overwhelmed. They leave with clean books, a plan, and someone in their corner.
— Diana Akhmerova, CPA
The shortcuts other firms take are exactly the places things go wrong.
Clients have her cell, her email, and her word that she will answer — on weekends, after hours, during tax season, when it matters. Concierge access is not a tier here. It is the standard.
Many firms outsource bookkeeping and return preparation to teams in India or the Philippines. Akhmerova Advisory does not. Every number that touches your file is touched by Diana herself, here, in Seattle.
Bookkeeping, payroll, tax, advisory, IRS representation, audit support — under one roof, with one point of contact. The seams between functions are where most firms drop things. Here, there are none.
Most firms pick a lane — for-profit or nonprofit. Akhmerova Advisory works fluently in both. From small business bookkeeping and S-corp returns to Form 990s, restricted fund accounting, and 501(c) compliance, the same principal handles it all. A genuine and rare dual specialty.
Most CPAs have only ever worked for firms. Diana built one. She has made payroll, navigated her own tax notices, and weathered the small daily decisions a business actually demands. She advises like someone who has been on the other side of the desk — because she has.
Russian, Tatar, French, and Spanish, with Hebrew, Hindi, and Mandarin in progress. For international clients and first-generation business owners, an advisor who can navigate U.S. tax with cultural fluency — and lived experience of the immigration system — is a rare advantage.
Whether you're running a growing business or managing significant personal wealth, you'll work with a credentialed CPA across every part of your financial life.
Clean monthly books, reconciliations, financial statements, and management reports. The foundation everything else depends on.
Annual business returns, quarterly estimates, payroll filings, sales and use tax, B&O tax, 1099s, and every recurring filing the IRS, Department of Revenue, and city demand.
Entity structuring, owner compensation, forecasting, KPIs, pricing, profitability analysis, and exit planning. Ongoing counsel from a CPA who knows your numbers cold.
Examinations, collections, appeals, installment agreements, offers in compromise, and DOR controversies. With full IRS practice rights, I speak to them so you don't have to.
Audit-readiness, PBC list management, and direct work with your external auditors when a financial statement audit is required by lenders, investors, or regulators.
Payroll runs, direct deposits, tax deposits, W-2s, and quarterly returns. Compliant, on time, and integrated with your books.
Federal and multi-state returns for high-income earners, business owners, equity-compensated executives, real estate investors, and families with complex holdings.
If you're not sure where you stand, we'll show you. Net worth analysis, cash-flow planning, budgeting, debt strategy, and a clear roadmap for the decisions ahead.
Multi-year tax projections, estimated payments, charitable strategy, equity compensation planning, and proactive moves to reduce what you owe—legally and intelligently.
A founder who has been on both sides of every decision she advises on.
Diana built her career at three of the world's largest accounting firms — PwC, EY, and BDO — before stepping into senior leadership as Controller of a sustainability startup and Vice President of Finance at a growing data center company. She holds a Master of Science in U.S. Taxation, is licensed as a CPA in both Washington and California, and is currently completing her Juris Doctor — the next step in extending the firm into a full legal practice. The intent is straightforward: to offer clients tax law, business law, and estate planning alongside their accounting, so that the work that usually requires a CPA, a tax attorney, and an estate lawyer can finally be handled under one roof.
Her perspective comes from places few advisors share. Diana grew up in the Soviet Union, immigrated to the United States, raised her son as a single mother, and built her own success from the ground up. She has faced — in her own life — the same questions her clients now bring her: How do I keep more of what I earn? How do I plan for what's next? How do I make sense of all this when no one will explain it plainly?
She founded the firm during the pandemic to bring concierge-level counsel to business owners, families, and individuals who deserve the same caliber of strategic thinking the largest firms reserve for their largest clients — delivered with the responsiveness, warmth, and personal attention only a principal-led practice can provide.
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