Certified Public Accountant

Paul L. Erickson, CPA, P.O. Box 455, Skyland, NC 28776, (828) 214-1111 announced the opening of his tax return preparation and accounting practice. He is focusing his efforts on both individual tax return preparation and business tax return preparation and helping those forming new business to get their accounting systems established from the beginning to allow the new business owner to always know where he stands from a financial and operations perspective.

Paul Erickson points out, there is an old adage: lack of success is not because people plan to fail but because they fail to plan. Too many business fail and our difficult economic circumstances are causing more businesses than ever to fail. One key reason is that business owners often lose their focus on the part of the business they are good at doing as they start spending their time doing work they never wanted or intended to do. One such area is bookkeeping, accounting and tax return preparation. Business owners may be able to do their company's bookkeeping, accounting and tax returns, just as they might be able to change the oil in their car. However, their time would be far better spent working in their area of expertise - the area in which they generate the most income per hour for themselves and their families -- if they want to succeed.

He reminds his clients their time is a precious resource. He points out how we have all felt there is not enough time to get everything done. If they had a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) who took care of their taxes, accounting and bookkeeping, they would have significantly more time to do what they are good at doing and what they have a passion to do. They will then have the ability to pursue it with a far greater level of certainty since they will be proceeding with the comfort that both they and their CFO are confident their forward planning will produce excellent returns. No doubt they are concerned that a CFO would cost $50,000-$100,000+ a year. Paul Erickson has offered his services at a small fraction of what it would cost them if they hired a full time CFO. Retaining Paul L. Erickson's services could be the most valuable and most comforting business decision they will ever make.

Through his more than 30 years as a CPA, he obtained extensive experience working with businesses of all size and disciplines. He worked for five years as General Counsel and Vice President of Finance (which included the function as CFO) for Erickson Retirement Communities, Inc., one of the nation's largest developers and managers of retirement communities. He will bring that type of experience to the table as he and his clients look for tax advantages and financial instruments that are particularly suited to their business or that they might not be taking full advantage of. Plus, he will use his expertise to help get his client's accounting and bookkeeping systems better established with today's very efficient and helpful software systems. Paul Erickson will help them on a monthly basis to make sure their financial house remains in good order so they can focus on the current and new business opportunities they can make the most of.

When ask how he can afford to offer his services as such a low rate, he informs clients that in converting his business from law to accounting, bookkeeping and tax services, he was able to cut his overhead by thousands of dollars a month and will pass those savings on to his clients.

Erickson says it was a difficult to close his law practice in Asheville, North Carolina because there is no attorney left in Western North Carolina that has the expertise and willingness to help the families with disabled children whose causes he has championed for the past 15 years. Paul Erickson fought against incredible odds to help those families and won some substantial victories for some families. See: http://www.wrightslaw.com/law/caselaw/2003/4th.G.fortbragg.lovaas.pdf South Carolina has now passed legislation to require coverage for autism in health insurance policies.

Erickson hoped favorable decisions like the Fort Bragg decision would help families with special needs. While South Carolina took positive steps forward, his home state's (North Carolina) reaction was negative. As he fought to obtain proper services for children with autism in North Carolina, its General Assembly repealed its maximization standard and replaced it with a minimum standard against which its schools could hardly be challenged for providing inappropriate educational programs for its children with special needs. Erickson's view: Apparently the state prefers the pounds of cure over the ounce of prevention. Neither logic nor accountability will prevail against that philosophy. In other words, his success caused North Carolina to move backwards, not forwards.

By shifting his business to taxation and accounting, Paul L. Erickson now looks forward to his clients achieving success and working towards financial security. Because that will ultimately generate more tax revenue for the state, he is confident he will not run up against state opposition in helping his tax and accounting clients.

For clients who still seek legal services, he suggest they purchase a Pre-Paid Legal family membership at his web site www.prepaidlegal.com/go/paulerickson. That membership includes the preparation of their wills, unlimited legal consultation on any legal matter, representation in court if they have a moving traffic violation, a schedule of hours of free legal defense for when they get sued, demand letters, 25% discount for matters not fully covered, 24 hour emergency legal services and they can obtain the Identity Theft Shield to protect themselves against the fastest growing crime in the US. All of that can be purchased for under $27/month.
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