Outsourced Accounting for New York CPA Firms
Trained offshore accountants placed inside your New York practice in about 3 to 4 weeks, ramped on your software and SOPs, and proven on your own work before a single live client file.
Built by a US CPA. Working overlap on New York business hours. Don't trust us. Test us.
What New York CPA firms are up against
A dense, high-value client base and some of the heaviest tax complexity in the country, met by a hiring market that keeps shrinking.
New York firms are not short on work. From New York City through Long Island, Westchester, Albany, and Buffalo, the state carries one of the densest, highest-value CPA markets in the country: closely held businesses, real-estate partnerships, high-net-worth individuals, and multi-entity groups that all file together and all file heavy. The problem is not demand. It is capacity to serve the demand without burning out the partners who sign the returns.
New York also raises the bar on complexity. Between one of the highest combined state-and-local tax burdens in the US, New York City's own layer on top of the state, and the Pass-Through Entity Tax elections that partnership and S-corp clients now expect a firm to model correctly, a New York return carries more moving parts than the same return in most other states. That is exactly the work that eats a senior's week and cannot simply be pushed to a junior.
Against that, the hiring math keeps getting worse. There are roughly 340,000 fewer accountants in the US than five years ago, graduates sit at a 20-year low, and a large share of experienced staff is near retirement. New York firms competing for the same shrinking pool feel it first. You cannot always hire your way out of the capacity you need, which is why more New York practices are adding trained offshore staff to the bench instead of leaving the work, and the growth, on the table.
Four sets of eyes before it reaches yours
Most offshore work gets one pass, if that. Everything we touch for a New York firm moves through four stages before it reaches your reviewer.
Preparer
Books or prepares the work to your SOPs and software.
Senior review
A senior checks the New York positions and catches what a junior misses.
Quality review
An independent pass on accuracy, completeness, and tie-outs.
Final review
Signed off internally so what reaches your firm is review-ready.
See it on your own work first
A New York partner's name is on every return. So we prove the work on your own files before it goes anywhere near a client.
Before any live engagement, we run a Free 40-Hour Proof Pilot. The placement works a fixed 40-hour block of your own work under our full multi-layer review, and your reviewer grades the result the same way they would grade a new hire, on a real New York return or a real close. If the work does not meet your bar, you have learned exactly where we stand with none of your clients touched. If it does, you have already seen the standard before you scale.
A drive-by trial is a sales tactic. A structured pilot on your own New York work is how a firm tests trained people on real complexity, PTET elections, city filings, partnership allocations, without putting a client at risk. The Proof Pilot proves the work before the relationship starts. The 30-day fit guarantee carries the risk once it does.
What stays with you. What we carry
You keep
- The New York client relationship and every advisory call
- Final review and sign-off on returns and financials
- Judgment on positions that need a partner, including PTET elections
We carry
- Preparation, reconciliations, AP/AR, and the close
- Structured workpapers and tie-outs on New York and city filings
- Cleanup and catch-up to a review-ready state
Placed in ~3 to 4 weeks, with US-hours overlap
Most New York firms start with one to three trained people and scale as trust builds. We learn or build your SOPs, run mock work through a 3 to 4 week ramp, and keep reviewers over the work so quality holds from day one. Placements work a schedule with meaningful overlap on New York business hours, so reviewer questions, handoffs, and same-day turnarounds happen inside your working day rather than the next morning.
You start small, see the work on your own files, and expand seat by seat. When someone rolls off, a trained replacement has already shadowed them, so your workflow never takes a hit mid-season. And if a placement is not the right fit in the first 30 days, we replace them free. Accountably was built by a Washington-licensed CPA with 7+ years inside US firms, so the person designing your New York team has signed the return, sat the review cycle, and felt April.
Questions New York firms ask
No. We are an offshore staffing partner, not a local New York firm or branch. We place trained offshore accountants inside your New York practice, ramped on your software and SOPs, working with US-business-hours overlap so your team collaborates with them through the working day.
Yes. We ramp placements on your engagements before live work, including New York's Pass-Through Entity Tax elections, New York City filings, and the combined state-and-local layers that make New York returns heavier than most states. Your reviewer keeps final sign-off on every position.
Placements work a schedule with meaningful overlap on New York business hours, so handoffs, reviewer questions, and same-day turnarounds happen inside your working day rather than the next morning. The overlap window is set with you during onboarding.
Through a Free 40-Hour Proof Pilot. The placement works a fixed 40-hour block of your own work under our multi-layer review, and your reviewer grades the result the way they would grade a new hire, with no client file committed until you have seen the standard.
Typically about 3 to 4 weeks to place and ramp on your software and SOPs, with mock work in the ramp so day one of live work is not day one of trust. Most New York firms start with one to three people and scale as trust builds.
If a placement is not the right fit in the first 30 days, we replace them free. When someone rolls off, a trained replacement has already shadowed the work during the notice period, so your New York firm never loses continuity mid-season.
Don't trust us. Test us.
If your New York firm is carrying returns and closes into another season, start with a Free 40-Hour Proof Pilot on your own work. Trained offshore accountants, placed in ~3 to 4 weeks, with US-hours overlap. Not a fit in 30 days? Replaced free.
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