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Community CPA & Associates Inc has 2 locations, listed below.

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    Business ProfileforCommunity CPA & Associates Inc

    CPA
    Multi Location Business
    BBB accredited business

    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    1/5stars

    Average of 2 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    1 complaints closed in last 3 years

    1 complaints closed in last 12 months

    BBB Rating & Accreditation

    Accredited Since: 8/15/2022

    Years in Business: 26

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    Overview

    This company offers CPA related accounting services.

    Business Details

    This is a multi-location business.

    Find a Location

    Community CPA & Associates Inc has 2 locations, listed below.

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      Location of This Business
      3816 Ingersoll Ave, Des Moines, IA 50312-3413
      BBB File Opened:
      4/28/2008
      Years in Business:
      26
      Business Started:
      1/1/1998
      Business Incorporated:
      1/4/2006
      Accredited Since:
      8/15/2022
      Type of Entity:
      Corporation
      Alternate Business Name
      • communiitycpa.com
      Business Management
      • Milagro Nava, Office Administrator
      • Ying Sa
      Contact Information

      Principal

      • Ying Sa

      Customer Contact

      • Ying Sa
      Additional Contact Information

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      Customer Complaints

      1 Customer Complaints

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      Most Recent Customer Complaint

      08/14/2023

      Complaint Type:
      Service or Repair Issues
      Status:
      Resolved
      First time using community cpa as it was recommended by a landlord. I met with them in early April to get my taxes filed. After several months of asking if my taxes were filed, i finally got a response that my taxes would be filed in June. They filed a tax extension without my person, charged me for the tax extension, along with charging me additional fees that were not mentioned during our consultation. I have several emails where they gave me no direction or time as to when my taxes would be filed. I had a consumer advocate take a look at my communication with community cpa, and she asked them for the tax extension document, which they provided her with, however they sent her the document with my social security number listed! They should have blocked that information. They charged my account without notifying me they were going to pull money out and therefore caused my account to overdraft. It was not easy working with this company. they said they would refund me $60 but are charging me fees - late fees.
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      2 Customer Reviews

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      Most Recent Customer Review

      Kaleb B

      1 star

      12/08/2023

      The tax filing services were terrific.The bookkeeping, financial statement, and payroll services were horrendous.Long story short, our experience was: documents requested, documents sent, documents requested, (was terrifying feeling realizing that youre accounting firm is disorganized to the point that theyre losing emails) we were confused.The confusion was cleared when we received the invoices we were charged for communication-time caused by their loss of records.Our engagement letters scope of services included: financial statements, payroll services, and tax filing.The tax filing was done promptly, and was easy to work with.The financial statements weve yet to see them after 7 months of invoicing for them to us.Payroll they began to entertain the processing of payroll 7 months after we entered into the engagement, informing us that were liable for late processing fees.Overall: good people at the branch, plagued by a bad company.

      Community CPA & Associates Inc Response

      04/01/2024

      Dear *****,

      We appreciate the time you took to share your feedback with us. We are glad that you had a good experience with our tax services that included both completing 2022 tax filing and helping you catch up 2021 tax filing that was long past due.

      As for payroll service, our understanding was you wanted to focus on getting the financials and taxes done first, as they were required by the banks and 2021 tax filing was long overdue.We could not perform payroll service until you had started to furnish workershours worked and other relevant information for each pay period.

      We are sorry to hear our accounting service didnt meet your expectations, but I want to assure you that our team worked diligently and exercised great care in preparing the financial statements for you accordingly to accounting standards. Our staff work records indicate that our emails and text messages requesting accountant login to your bank account or copies of bank statements were not responded for weeks, we encountered loan accounts that were not previously disclosed to us and we had to request loan documents and loan statements, and we needed to spend time communicating with your bank back and forth due to certain typos by the bank or banker. We wish you had provided more specific info in your complaint, e.g. the exact documents (such as specific bank statement or loan documents) that you provided that were not timely upload to our client document database, as this would help us identify and cure the deficiencies in our file management system or our staff communications and workflows.

      If there is anything specific you would like us to address or discuss further, please feel free to reach out to *** at Community CPA directly. We are glad to spend more time to come to a better understanding so we can help you remit the remaining balance owed.

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