Tax strategy
Plan the year so the return is the easy part — and the bill is smaller on purpose.
For Las Vegas business owners using QuickBooks
Tax strategy and financial clarity for Las Vegas QuickBooks business owners who want a year-round advisor.
Adam Hodson, CPA helps established Southern Nevada owners who run on QuickBooks keep more of what they earn, turn their books into a real decision-making tool, and run a better business year-round — not just at tax time.
Year‑round
Proactive tax strategy
QuickBooks
Built for decisions
Las Vegas
Local advisor, local context
For business owners
Built for business owners who want more than a tax return.
The best financial decisions happen before tax season — not during it. We help Las Vegas owners plan ahead, see the numbers clearly, and make moves with the tax and cash picture already in front of them.
Compliance is the floor. Strategy, visibility, and better decisions are the point.
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Proactive planning
Mid-year and Q4 tax projections so April is a confirmation, not a surprise.
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Tax strategy as a habit
Owner compensation, entity structure, and timing decisions reviewed throughout the year.
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Business growth context
Financial guidance tied to where your Las Vegas business is actually heading next.
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Financial visibility
Clean monthly numbers you can actually read — and trust when it's time to move.
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Cash flow awareness
Forward-looking cash, not a rear-view bank balance, so hiring and reinvestment feel safe.
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Decision support
Someone wise to call before the big move — the new hire, the new entity, the new property.
QuickBooks expertise
Where QuickBooks becomes a strategic advantage.
Most Las Vegas businesses use QuickBooks. Very few use it to its full potential. In most files we open, it's running as a glorified checkbook — categorizing transactions, producing a tax-ready report, and that's it.
We help owners turn QuickBooks into a real decision-making tool: cleaner data, smarter chart of accounts, true profitability by service line or property, and reports the owner can actually open on a Monday morning and use.
Cleaner books
Reconciled monthly. No mystery balances. No quiet drift.
Better reporting
P&L by project, location, or service — the way you actually run the business.
Financial visibility
Dashboards that surface margin, cash, and trend — not just totals.
Business intelligence
QuickBooks plus the right add-ons, configured to answer real questions.
Owner-friendly views
Numbers translated into plain English, not accountant-speak.
Decision-ready data
Reports tied to the next decision — pricing, hiring, expansion, owner pay.
Outcomes, not services
Reduce taxes. Improve decisions. Create more freedom.
Business owners don't hire accountants because they love accounting. They hire advisors because they want better outcomes — more cash kept, sharper decisions, a calmer operation, and a business that doesn't depend on April heroics.
Profitability
See which revenue is actually making money, and which is quietly costing you.
Operational efficiency
Workflows, software, and routines that take admin off the owner's plate.
Cash flow
Forward-looking cash so reinvestment and owner draws aren't a guessing game.
Business planning
A real plan tied to numbers — pricing, hiring, expansion, debt, exit.
Owner freedom
Less time inside the books. More time leading the business.
Risk reduction
Clean records, defensible positions, and no surprises from the IRS or the state.
Confidence
Knowing the next move is the right one — before you make it.
The relationship
More than compliance.
Tax returns are the result. Better business decisions are the goal. We're built around the conversations that happen between deadlines — the ones that actually move the business forward.
Advisory. Tax planning. Business consulting. Financial guidance. The work that compounds across years, not weeks.
Tax planning
Scenario modeling, owner comp, entity structure, and timing — all year.
Advisory
Quarterly business reviews framed around what to do next, not what already happened.
Business consulting
Pricing, capacity, hiring, and operations — backed by your real numbers.
Financial guidance
Reserves, retirement, debt, distributions — coordinated, not piecemeal.
Strategic conversations
The phone call before the decision. Not the post-mortem after the fact.
Ongoing support
A relationship, not a yearly transaction. Calls and emails are included.
What we do
Services framed around what they actually produce.
Every engagement is built around tax savings, financial clarity, growth, and better decisions — not around forms, hours, or compliance checkboxes.
Tax Strategy
Keep more of what your business earns.
Year-round tax planning, projections, and the strategic moves that pay for the engagement many times over.
Learn moreTax Preparation
Returns as the byproduct of a planned year.
Business and personal returns prepared accurately, on time, and with no last-minute surprises.
Learn moreQuickBooks Advisory
QuickBooks as a decision-making tool.
Setup, cleanup, optimization, and ongoing oversight that turns QuickBooks into real business intelligence.
Learn moreBusiness Advisory
A trusted voice for the decisions that matter.
Quarterly reviews, owner pay, pricing, capacity, expansion — tied to your real numbers.
Learn moreAccounting Services
Clean books are the start of every smart decision.
Monthly bookkeeping, reconciliation, and reporting that actually reflects how the business runs.
Learn moreFinancial Planning Support
Personal and business finances working together.
Owner draws, reserves, retirement, and long-term planning coordinated alongside the business.
Learn moreThe experience
What working with Adam Hodson, CPA feels like.
Proactive. Organized. Responsive. Strategic. Relationship-driven. Built around a year-round rhythm so nothing important sits in your inbox waiting on April.
Step 01
Discovery
A direct conversation about your business, your numbers, and where the friction actually is — before anyone signs anything.
Step 02
Onboarding
A clean handoff from prior firms or DIY setups: secure document exchange, QuickBooks review, and a tight initial roadmap.
Step 03
Quarterly planning
A real quarterly cadence — tax position, profitability, cash, and the decisions on the table for the next 90 days.
Step 04
Tax strategy meetings
Mid-year and Q4 sessions to lock in the moves that move the needle — owner comp, timing, structure, and savings.
Step 05
Communication cadence
We reach out. Email and phone access is included. No meter on questions, no surprise invoices for a 20-minute call.
Step 06
Ongoing support
A trusted CPA already inside the business — the call you make before the next hire, lease, property, or pivot.
Adam Hodson, CPA
“The Talent” · Founder
Certified Public Accountant · QuickBooks Advisor
Meet Adam
A Las Vegas CPA who treats your business like a partner — not a return.
Adam Hodson built this practice on a simple conviction: established business owners deserve a CPA who's already inside the business — proactive on tax strategy, fluent in QuickBooks, and reachable when a real decision is on the table.
After years of watching Las Vegas owners get reactive tax filing dressed up as "service," he built the firm around the work that actually moves the needle: year-round planning, clean financials, and direct conversations about what to do next.
Today, Adam works with construction firms, professional service businesses, real estate investors, and established operators across Summerlin, Henderson, and greater Southern Nevada — the people quietly building Las Vegas.
- Based in
- Las Vegas, NV
- Specialty
- Tax Strategy & QuickBooks
- Approach
- Year-round Advisory
The team
The people you'll actually talk to.
A small Las Vegas crew that takes the work seriously and themselves a little less so. Karen runs the place — Adam mostly listens.
“The One In Charge”
Karen Stephenson
A pro at everything accounting — tax prep, bookkeeping, payroll, and management. Has been “managing” Adam for years.
“The Chaos Coordinator”
Brit Hansel
Moves hundreds of client files through tax season without dropping one. Powered by coffee and one very photogenic dog.
“The Pretzel Guy”
Ed Reding
Decades of tax and accounting experience, and strong opinions about hand-rolled pretzels.
“The Canuck”
Vanessa VanBeek
Newest addition. Recently relocated from Canada with her husband and four kids. Front-office pro and full-time sports parent.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Proud to serve Las Vegas business owners.
Las Vegas is a city built by entrepreneurs. Family-owned construction outfits. Professional service firms in Summerlin. Henderson real estate investors. Hospitality-adjacent operators. Second-generation companies that grew up here and stayed.
Southern Nevada is a unique business environment — no state income tax, fast-moving real estate, transient workforce, seasonal cash patterns. We understand what that actually means for your books, your tax position, and the decisions you make every quarter.
Downtown Summerlin
Professional services & growing firms
Henderson
Construction, trades, and family-owned businesses
Southwest Las Vegas
Real estate investors and operators
The Arts District & DTLV
Boutique studios and creative companies
Greater Southern Nevada
Established local entrepreneurs
Our story
A Spare bedroom turns into a dream.
The story behind Adam Hodson, CPA — and the conviction we now pass on to every business owner we work with.
Summerlin, Nevada — home base since the early days.
I started my firm in 2005 in a spare bedroom in my home, never having run a small business on my own before. I picked up clients rapidly and within two years, I had outgrown my small home office.
I moved to a small executive suite and hired my first employee. Then shortly afterwards, I hired three more. My firm was growing pretty fast at this point — which has its own set of challenges. As more work came in, more work needed to be done, and I struggled to keep up.
I hired more employees to help with the work, but that required me to spend much of my time managing employees and not much time doing the work that paid the bills.
After more than a decade of managing my "successful" accounting practice, I was starting to get burned out. Working more and more without much to show financially for my efforts. About this time, I had the fortune to meet someone who had experience building and operating multiple CPA firms. He offered me some help, and I responded like many other small business owners I've worked with over the years:
"I don't need any help,"…I said, while thinking I have a Master's Degree in Accounting and a CPA license.
And for the next two years, my friend continued to offer help and I continued to turn him down. Still working harder and more hours with little to show for my efforts.
Finally, I was getting desperate, so I thought I would take him up on his offer. What he shared with me was simple, but not easy. Choosing to limit my practice to business owners that used QuickBooks, I worried about financial ruin as I let go of almost 20% of my clients that year.
And what was the result? In one year, my revenue increased 14% and my net income increased by 24%.
Revenue
+14%
In a single year after narrowing focus.
Net income
+24%
More to show for the work — not less.
I learned a valuable lesson from this experience that I now try to pass on to my clients: focus is leverage. The right clients, served deeply, beats more clients served thinly — every time.
Who we work with
Built for established Las Vegas business owners.
Not startups looking for the cheapest filing. Owners with a real operation, real revenue, and decisions that actually move money.
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Construction & trades
Job-cost clarity, owner comp on S-corps, equipment timing, and the cash patterns of a build cycle.
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Professional service firms
Law, design, engineering, consulting — pricing, capacity, and partner economics.
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Real estate investors
Entity structure, cost segregation conversations, K-1 coordination, and depreciation strategy.
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Hospitality-adjacent businesses
Operators serving the Vegas economy — tight margins, seasonal swings, real planning.
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Established Las Vegas operators
Family-owned companies and second-generation businesses ready to run more strategically.
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Growing Southern Nevada firms
Owners scaling team and revenue who need the financial side to keep up — and stay ahead.
Get started
The CPA you call before the next big decision — not after.
A short conversation about your business, your numbers, and where a year-round CPA partnership would actually move the needle. No pressure, no pitch deck.
(Worst case, you leave with a better understanding of your taxes and a pretzel recommendation.)
Las Vegas · Summerlin · Henderson · Southern Nevada