Ladinez & Company, PC

A Professional Accountancy Corporation 

 

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"Maaari ko po kayong tulungan sa inyong mga buwis at negosyo. Kung mayroon kayong problema at hindi  makabayad ngutang sa buwis. O kaya kung mayroon kayong mga problema sa negosyo, maaari ko po kayong tulongan. Tumawag lang po kayo para sa konsultasyon. Ako po ang inyong Filipino CPA." TAX PREPARER & TAX ACCOUNTANT

Vicente B. Ladinez, CPA, MBA
Owner & President

Vicente B. Ladinez has over 10 years of tax and accounting experiences. He has prepared thousands of personal and business tax returns; he has successfully represented his clients before the IRS for tax audits; he has successfully removed bank levies, wage garnishment and tax liens; he has successfully negotiated and reduced tax debts; he has helped entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses.

 

His main goals are to minimize your tax exposure, solve your tax problems, help start and grow your business. He strives to offer fast, friendly, and personalized tax and accounting services.

 CPACertificate1

Certified Public Accountant certificate granted by the California Board of Accountancy.

 

Inspired by his uncle, who owned a successful manufacturing business, he entered business school at The A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), where he received the Degree of Master in Business Administration (MBA) in 2000. There, he was exposed to a very diverse group of international students from different countries of Asia, Europe, South America, and the Middle East.

 MBADiploma

He received the degree of Master of Business Administration from The A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, UC Riverside.

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Prior to working for a public accounting firm in 2003, Vicente has had good amalgam of financial and accounting professional experiences. He had worked as an accountant for Los Angeles City’s Finance Department. He had worked as a financial research analyst for Thomas F. White & Company, Inc., a discount brokerage company. Shortly after, he had taken a job as a cost accountant and a logistics analyst at Daylight Transport, an LTL carrier company.

 VITACertificate

 Through Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA), Mr. Ladinez used to offer free tax assistance to those who are needy and elderly.

 

While an associate for various public accounting firms, he initially concentrated on taxation. He eventually carried the responsibility of business management for the firm’s certain closely held businesses. He then was assigned consulting capacity to clients and acted as interim controller as well as general external finance support to clients in a regular basis.

 

Vicente …or Vince, Vincent, Vinnie, enjoys playing guitar with his buddies and likes the beach, as it reminds him of his childhood.

Common Bookkeeping Problems

These four problems usually appear together—and they’re the exact pain points that tell a business owner their books aren’t truly “working” for them yet.

Behind on Reconciliations

Reconciliations are how your books are tied to reality. Each month, your bank and credit card statements should be matched line-by-line to what’s in QuickBooks.

When this falls behind:

  1. Transactions pile up and become harder to sort correctly
  2. Errors go unnoticed (duplicates, missing charges, miscategorized items)
  3. Cash balances in QuickBooks stop matching the bank
  4. You lose trust in your numbers

Being “behind” often means months—or even years—of activity haven’t been verified. At that point, the books become more of a guess than a financial record.

Unclear Profitability

Many business owners know how much cash is in the bank, but not whether the business is actually profitable.

This happens when:

  1. Income and expenses are lumped into broad or incorrect categories
  2. Owner draws, reimbursements, and business expenses are mixed together
  3. There’s no clean Profit & Loss statement
  4. Reports don’t reflect real operating costs

Without clear profitability, it’s impossible to answer:

  1. “Am I actually making money?”
  2. “Which services or products are profitable?”
  3. “Can I afford to hire, invest, or raise my prices?”

You may feel busy and financially strained—even if the business should be healthy.

Tax-Time Surprises

Tax surprises usually come from messy or incomplete books.

Common causes include:

  1. Income recorded incorrectly or not at all
  2. Personal expenses mixed with business spending
  3. Missing deductions
  4. No estimate of taxable profit throughout the year

The result is:

  1. Higher-than-expected tax bills
  2. Scrambling for cash in April
  3. Stress over whether the numbers are even right

Clean monthly books let you see tax exposure in advance so nothing comes out of nowhere.

Confusing QuickBooks Setup

QuickBooks is powerful—but only if it’s set up properly.

A confusing setup often includes:

  1. Dozens of unnecessary accounts
  2. Generic or misused categories
  3. Bank feeds dumping transactions into “Uncategorized”
  4. No structure for owner pay, taxes, or payroll
  5. Reports that don’t make sense

This makes every task harder:

  1. Categorizing feels like guesswork
  2. Reports aren’t useful
  3. You’re never sure if things are “right”

Instead of saving time, QuickBooks becomes another source of anxiety.

Together, these problems create a cycle:

Messy setup → unreconciled books → unclear profit → tax shocks → more stress → avoidance → even messier books.

Good bookkeeping breaks that cycle by making your numbers accurate, understandable, and useful—so your business feels manageable again.

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