Certified Public Accountants
Los Angeles

Run your business.

We’ll handle the numbers.

J Park & Associates

Books, taxes, and compliance for Los Angeles small businesses — for over 15 years. So tax season stops being something you dread.

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Start where it hurts

What’s keeping you up at night?

Pick the one that sounds like you. We’ll show you exactly how it gets handled — in plain language, not accountant-speak.

Clear monthly numbers, explained.

Your books stay current week to week, and every month you get a short, readable snapshot: what you made, what you spent, and what’s drifting. You’ll know how the business is doing while you can still do something about it — not at year-end.

  • Books reconciled on a weekly cycle, not a yearly scramble
  • A monthly summary you can read in five minutes
  • A standing conversation when a number looks off

Sunday night. Again.

Receipts. Payroll. Sales tax. Deadlines.

This is the part we take

Watch it put itself away.

Everything on that desk becomes a system that runs on a calendar — ours, not yours.

The transformation

What actually changes

The old way

  • Evenings spent reconciling spreadsheets that never quite balance
  • Finding out what you owe after the year has already closed
  • Five systems — none of which talk to each other
  • Hearing from your accountant once a year, in April

Working with us

  • Books that stay current without you touching a spreadsheet
  • Quarterly sit-downs, so nothing about your taxes surprises you
  • One clear picture of your financial health, any time you want it
  • An accountant who already knows your business when you call
Where we do our best work

We work with all kinds of small businesses. Six kinds we know cold.

01

Restaurants & Food Service

Tip reporting, food-cost percentages, dine-in versus to-go sales tax, seasonal cash flow — the parts generalist firms get wrong, we handle every week.

Tip & wage reportingFood & labor costSales taxSeasonal cash flow
02

Optometrists

Insurance and vision-plan reimbursements, the retail-plus-exam revenue mix, frame and lens inventory, equipment depreciation — practice books that reconcile cleanly.

Insurance reimbursementsRetail + exam mixEquipment depreciation
03

Wholesalers & Distributors

Inventory costing, resale certificates, thin margins, and the cash-flow gap between paying suppliers and collecting receivables — managed, not guessed.

Inventory costingResale certificatesReceivables timing
04

Service Station Operators

Fuel inventory and excise taxes, supplier and franchise statements, c-store sales mix, environmental compliance fees — station books built around how fuel really flows.

Fuel & excise taxesSupplier statementsC-store sales mix
05

Lawyers & Law Firms

Client trust accounting that stays compliant, partner draws and K-1s, contingency-fee timing — books a state bar audit can read without a single flag.

Trust (IOLTA) accountingPartner draws & K-1sFee timing
06

Grocery Stores & Markets

High-volume, low-margin inventory, taxable versus nontaxable items, CRV, shrinkage, department payroll — daily volume turned into numbers you can act on.

Taxable vs. nontaxableInventory & shrinkageDepartment payroll

“Most owners first call an accountant in April, when the year is already closed and the options are gone. Everything about how we work exists so that conversation happens in June instead — while there’s still time to change the number.”

Justin Park, CPA · Principal

The shape of the work

The problem, the fix, the result

A restaurant opening its second location
The problem
Books three months behind and sales-tax filings slipping, right when a lender wants clean financials.
What we do
Rebuild bookkeeping on a weekly cycle and put every filing on a managed calendar.
What changes
Current books every Monday, and a financing conversation backed by real numbers.
A broker whose income arrives unevenly
The problem
Commission checks land in bursts, quarterly estimates are guesses, and April is a recurring shock.
What we do
Review the entity, then plan quarterly against the actual deal pipeline instead of last year’s average.
What changes
Estimates that track reality. The owe-or-refund number stops being a surprise.
An owner still running payroll personally
The problem
Payroll every other Friday, by hand, with filing deadlines chased from memory.
What we do
Move payroll to a managed, automated run with filings handled end to end.
What changes
Payroll time near zero. Deadlines met without the owner thinking about them.
No mystery, no gatekeeping

How working together works

A short conversation

Fifteen minutes, no prep, no obligation. You talk about the business; we listen for where the friction actually is.

A quiet look at your books

We review what exists today and give you an honest read of where things stand, including what’s fine as-is.

A plan that runs without you

We take over the cycle — books, payroll, filings, planning — and you get your evenings back. You stay informed, not involved.

Free · 2 minutes · answer on screen

The tax-season stress test

Five questions. Your result appears right here — no email required to see it.

Do you know, today, whether last month was profitable?

Are your books current within the last 30 days?

Last tax season, did you know what you’d owe before you filed?

Do payroll, sales tax, and filing deadlines run without your personal attention?

In the last three months, has an accountant talked with you about the year ahead?

15+Years with LA small businesses
CPACertified Public Accountants
3Practice areas: books · tax · advisory
LocalLa Crescenta & Greater Los Angeles
The lowest-stakes next step

Get your Sundays back.

Start with the free stress test, or book a 15-minute conversation. Either way, you’ll leave knowing where your books stand, whether or not we ever work together.

Goes directly to justinpark@jparkassociates.com — we typically reply within one business day.

Prefer to talk it through? Call (818) 248-1580 and ask for Justin  ·  Mon–Fri, 9 AM–5:30 PM