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Spiegler Blevins & Co. CPAs & Advisors

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Proactive advisors focused on tax and accounting services to businesses and their owners We know you don’t like year-end surprises—and neither do we.

Reliable & Proactive Accounting Solutions

Welcome to Spiegler Blevins & Company, your dedicated business partners. Our firm philosophy is focused on active, open communication that provides the basis for a successful relationship. That’s why we proactively reach out to our clients to offer guidance and support throughout the year. We are dedicated to keeping a finger on the pulse of your business, and providing you with the tools you need to monitor and ensure your financial health. Consider our full line of individualized services:

BOSS™ - Back Office Support System
Accounting Services
Bookkeeping
Payroll
Tax Planning & Preparation

10/29/2026

Our team continues to field questions about RetirePath Virginia, which expanded on July 1, 2026 to reach Virginia employers with five or more eligible employees. Employers already sponsoring a qualified retirement plan, including a 401(k), a SIMPLE IRA or a SEP IRA, remain exempt and need only certify that exemption when they receive an access code.

Employers without a plan must either facilitate RetirePath or establish a qualifying plan of their own, and a private plan sometimes serves a business better once recruiting and contribution goals are taken into account. Program details and current deadlines are published at RetirePathVA.com. Contact us to discuss any questions you may have.

10/27/2026

Our monthly close runs for every client on a back office engagement, and owners are often unclear on what that work actually contains. The close reconciles every bank and credit card account, reviews the accounts payable and accounts receivable positions, records payroll and its related liabilities, examines the general ledger for misposted transactions, and produces a financial statement package the owner is able to act on.

The work happens on a schedule rather than whenever someone finds time for it, which is what allows us to know where a client stands at any point in the year rather than reconstructing it afterwards. Tax planning, benchmarking and every other advisory conversation depend on that position being current. Compare the three levels of back office support.

10/26/2026

Our latest article covers year-end equipment decisions for practice owners. It works through what placed in service actually means, the Sec. 179 limits that apply for the 2026 tax year, when 100 percent bonus depreciation is the better option, and why the largest available deduction is not automatically the best planning decision.

Practice owners holding current monthly financial statements make these decisions in a single conversation, because the projected profitability figure already exists. A practice whose books are posted once a year makes the same decisions on estimates, usually in March.

The link: https://s-bcpas.com/year-end-equipment-deduction-2026/

10/23/2026

The firm holds membership in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants. Those three memberships reflect a client base that crosses the state line daily, working across Bristol, Kingsport, Johnson City and Abingdon.

A business operating in Bristol frequently has employees, customers and obligations on both sides of that line, and the accounting consequences of the arrangement do not resolve themselves. Our two offices exist for the same reason. Contact us to discuss any questions you may have.

10/14/2026

We built this firm around place and a kind of work.

The place is the tri-state region. We know the local employers, the labor market, the banks, and what it actually takes to run a business here. You are not getting a national firm's playbook dropped onto a local economy.

The work is recurring, year-round accounting for established owners who would rather have a back office than build one. If that sounds like what you have been missing, that is the conversation we like to have.

10/12/2026

The hidden cost of stale books is not the bookkeeping itself. It is the decisions you make without the full picture.

A hire you were not quite ready for. An equipment purchase timed badly for taxes. A tax bill that lands when the cash is already spent. None of these come from working less hard. They come from working without current numbers.

Current information does not make the decisions for you. It just means you are making them with your eyes open. That is most of the value of good accounting, and it is the part owners feel last.

10/09/2026

Ask an owner what they want from their accounting and the answer is rarely “better spreadsheets.” It is usually time, and the confidence that the back office is handled.

That is the real product of outsourced accounting. Payroll runs, the books stay current, the reporting shows up on schedule, and the tax planning happens through the year. You stop being the fallback for every financial task that has no other owner.

The point of handing it off is not to care less about your numbers. It is to spend your time on the business while someone else keeps the numbers right.

10/07/2026

For a practice, a number on its own does not tell you much. A collection rate, a margin, a payroll ratio: good or bad compared to what?

That is what benchmarking is for. Comparing your numbers against practices of similar size and type turns a raw figure into a signal you can act on. It tells you which numbers actually matter and what to do when one of them drifts.

The point is not to chase a benchmark for its own sake. It is to know, with some confidence, whether the practice is performing the way it should be, and where to look first when it is not.

10/05/2026

What onboarding actually looks like with us, in plain terms.

You meet your team, we look at how your books are set up today, and we document what changes. We get the secure tools in place so you know where everything lives and who handles what. Then we take over the day-to-day, and you start getting financial information you can actually use.

No chaos, no guessing, just a clear sequence. The goal is that handing off your back office feels like relief, not risk.

10/02/2026

If your income is running well ahead of last year, there is a quiet risk worth knowing about: underpaying your estimated taxes during the year can trigger a penalty, even if you pay the full balance in April.

The good news is that this is one of the more controllable risks an owner faces. There are safe-harbor rules that let you avoid the penalty by paying in a set share of either this year's or last year's tax. The thresholds vary by income, which is exactly why a quick mid-year check is worth doing rather than assuming you are fine.

A short review now beats discovering the gap when the return is already done.

Address

1096 Ole Berry Drive
Abingdon, VA
24210

Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 5pm
Thursday	8:30am - 5pm

Telephone

(276) 628-8700

Website

http://www.s-bcpas.com/

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