About Us
Your Financial Success is Our Business
Founded by Ann in 2004, Ann M. Hartz CPA & Associates has grown from a local accounting practice operating out of a basement into a full-service accounting firm serving individuals and businesses throughout Central Iowa.
Our mission is simple: Accounting and tax experts that are dedicated to empowering our community’s financial success as a trusted partner who is committed to the integrity and satisfaction of our client.
We believe there is more to accounting than just numbers. It’s about building relationships, understanding your goals, and providing the guidance and support you need to move forward with confidence.
For individuals this might mean dependable tax preparation, planning, or help resolving a tax issue. For business owners, bookkeeping, payroll, accounting services, or guidance as your business grows.
Our wide range of services allows us to grow alongside our clients. As your needs change you can continue working with a team that already understands your financial history, goals, and challenges.
As a local firm, we believe in building personal connections with the people and businesses we serve. We’ll take the time to listen, answer questions, and provide clear guidance tailored to your unique needs.
At Ann M. Hartz CPA & Associates, we are committed to helping our clients and our community achieve greater financial success. Whether you’re preparing for tax season, growing a business, or facing a financial challenge, our team is here to help.
More than tax preparation. More than Accounting. We are your trusted partner for financial success.
Our Mission Statement
We are accounting and tax experts who are dedicated to empowering our community’s financial success as trusted partners committed to the integrity and satisfaction of our clients.
Let Us Help:
Dear Friend,
I have a feeling I know why you’re reading this right now.
You need more time in your day. Running a business is extremely demanding and there just isn’t enough time in the day to keep all the plates from spinning out of control. What you need most right now is more proactive help. You need the benefit of business advising to straighten up your business finances and tax strategy. As soon as possible. In fact, yesterday would have been ideal to get our business advising expertise. Am I close?
We get it. We’ve worked with plenty of businesses who have to cobble together 9 different software programs to keep everything straight, or who just wash their hands of it all and put everything on the credit card … and then try to clean up every year after the fact. And they know that this is no way to properly monitor profit margins, cash controls, account management, tax strategy, and all of the myriad components of an effective financial system for a business. They need business advising support.
Perhaps this is your story too. Or perhaps you’ve reached a stage of development in your business that you want to pass the baton of accounting to another expert business advising team so your team can focus on what they do best: making sales and taking care of customers.
Or are you just starting your business and want to begin on the right foot?
Whatever the reason, we want you to know that our business advising team has been diligently and effectively taking care of the accounting needs of countless organizations in a wide variety of industries—discreetly and expertly handling the ongoing financial management of tax burdens, payroll, bookkeeping, and other comprehensive accounting services while providing expertise in business planning, coaching, and strategic consulting that many businesses need.
Because here’s a certain truth as it relates to taxes and your business: The State and Federal Government would love to have more of your business’s hard-earned money in their accounts. And yes, even though it’s painful, none of us begrudge paying our legal and fair share of taxes. But the problem is that regular business owners, like you, are missing out on legal and safe deductions to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed refunds every year.
It doesn’t have to be this way. You don’t have to hand more dollars over to the government than they require just because you don’t know their rules as well as they do. You don’t have to live in a constant state of anxiety over the state of your books, feeling guilty about the time you should be devoting to keeping your business profitable.
In fact, to help you find answers to your questions, I’ve compiled some resources in the last couple of years for business people like you in response to the specific tax and accounting questions I’ve received from my clients.
Click the button above to take your first step. And of course, check out our website and discover why Des Moines Metro business owners call us their trusted CPA.
Talk again soon,
Ann M. Hartz, CPA
PS — When you fill out the form, we’ll also add you to our weekly email series on “Real World” Strategy for small business owners. Our readers enthusiastically forward these to their colleagues and peers all the time, because they’re not your standard tax and business advising tips.
PPS — Already want to schedule an appointment? I don’t blame you … many people are fed up with trying to manage their financials on their own. Our schedule is very full … but if you call us at (515) 259-7779 or Email Us, we’ll give you two options for an appointment right away. We will NOT make dealing with an accountant as painful as dealing with your books has already been!