Who We Are?
Masterpiece Accounting Services
Ibanessa Soto Hogan
Masterpiece Accounting Services LLC (MAS) was founded by Ibanessa Soto Hogan. With a strong passion for learning, she earned her Bachelors Degree in Public Accounting at La Universidad Technologica de Santiago (UTESA) in her native land, the Dominican Republic. Ibanessa moved to New York in 1997 to continue pursuing her spiritual goals and become a better leader. She has always had a great desire to help people, leading her to start MAS in 2011.
Ibanessa is an Enrolled Agent (EA), a license granted by the Internal Revenue Service to tax professionals, a degreed and experienced Accountant, a QuickBooks Certified ProAdvisor, and a Certified Six Sigma Green Belt (CSSGB). She is currently attending graduate school to obtain her MBA at Concordia University.
Prior to starting MAS, Ibanessa worked in the corporate world for 15 years as an accomplished professional, accumulating extensive experience in accounting, bookkeeping, and auditing. She held both junior and senior accounting positions in companies such as Coopers & Lybrand (currently Price Waterhouse Coopers), ThyssenKrupp Elevator/Dover Elevator, Frito Lay and Castle Oil Corporation.
Ibanessa, along with her team, is a business consultant and is passionate about helping her clients achieve success in their business endeavors and lead them through meaningful transformation to enable them to become more competitive and profitable.
Board Member – She serves on the Board of the Chamber of Commerce of New Rochelle and on the Education Committee of the New York Chapter of the National Association of Tax Professionals (NATP).
Robbin Finney-Granston
Strategic Consultant
Robin is an experienced nonprofit executive and entrepreneur. She is a pragmatic, energetic and results oriented leader who helps organizations and individuals move from vision to strategy and implementation. She also develops relationships and opportunities to support the advancement of a mission driven organizations. Her key qualities are leadership, creativity and problem-solving skills with impact.
Her other qualifications are consult, advise, and guide organization leaders with strategy, business development, and implementation. Focus is on market and product/service development and enhancement, as well as service opportunities and improvement and risk management. Organize and execute regional economic development programs with government and non-profit leaders in the tri-state region. Design and host monthly economic development workshops for MWBE business owners for regional and local government certifications, purchasing and contracting agencies. Initiate social media, marketing and product development activities specializing in both B2B and B2C businesses.
Armani Macon Admin
Assistant/Bookkeeper
Armani has been an experienced administrative assistant with an associate degree in accounting at Westchester Community College. She is also preparing to become a QuickBooks ProAdvisor and working on a bachelors degree in accounting.
She is a great asset to our Firm with her excellent time-management skills, focus, and pleasant attitude.
Armani enjoys reading self-improvement books, serving in her church as her pastor’s assistant, and spending time with friends and family.
Let Us Help:
Dear Friend,
It’s one thing to manage a business, it’s quite another to grow it.
If you’re reading this, you know what I’m talking about.
It seems like the books are being handled properly. It seems like payroll is (mostly?) under control. It seems like the IRS is okay with how we’re handling our taxes. It seems like the financial reporting is in place.
We’re flush … most of the time. But we’re certainly not growing. We’re not prospering.
What are we missing?
This is a common story that we hear when we first start talking to business owners. The boxes are checked, the people are in place … but the fact is, they’re not quite sure how to optimize the financials for performance and growth.
Our specialty is in reading between the lines of the systems, the softwares, and the financial statements to see the true financial story being told … even when the reports all “seem” okay (for now).
The fact is that the Federal Government would love to have more of your business’ hard-earned money in their accounts. Your employees probably don’t care about cost control as much as they should. Your sales team might need to focus their efforts in a new direction.
But you don’t have to hand more dollars over to the government than they require, just because you don’t know their rules as well as they do. You don’t have to live in a constant state of anxiety over the state of your books. The future of your business doesn’t have to be a question mark.
Let’s get a real-time reading on your business’s financial health. Answer a few questions below to get started.
Click the button above to take your first step, and we’ll be in touch soon to follow up about your specific needs.
And of course, feel free to poke around our site and discover why we’ve been called “The Most Trusted MBA, EA in the Northeast States Area”.
Talk again soon,
Ibanessa S Hogan, MBA, EA
PS — When you fill out the form, we’ll also add you to our weekly email series on “Real World” Strategy for small business owners. Our readers enthusiastically forward these to their colleagues and peers all the time, because they’re not your standard “tax tips”.
PPS — Already want to come in? I don’t blame you … many people are fed up with trying to manage their books and financials on their own. Our schedule is very full … but if you call us at 914-752-3632 or Email Us, we’ll give you two options for coming in right away. We will NOT make dealing with a business advisor as painful as dealing with your books has already been!