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Welcome to Stanaland, Dodson & Associates, your comprehensive solution for all accounting needs. From tax planning to financial reporting, our experience spans a wide range of services, ensuring precision and efficiency for businesses of all sizes.

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Certified Public Accountants

Empowering Your Financial Journey with Experienced and Trust.

Thank you for choosing Stanaland, Dodson & Associates. Our team of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) is here to provide you with experience assistance, to help you overcome any financial challenge you may face. Here at our firm, we value the importance of establishing strong connections with our clients. It is our priority to gain a comprehensive understanding of the specific details of your financial situation. Our team of CPAs goes beyond traditional accounting. They are dedicated advisors who provide outstanding service in tax management, cash flow forecasting, accounting consulting, and more. When you choose Stanaland, Dodson & Associates, you’re teaming up with a group that believes in being precise, transparent, and proactive to help you achieve financial success.

Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) are licensed accountants. Their Experienced in tax, auditing, and business advice services is well-known. To earn this prestigious designation, persons must meet rigorous educational requirements, pass a rigorous test, and commit to ongoing professional development. We are a public accounting firm, serving people, corporations, and organizations. In public accounting, CPAs do audits, financial reporting, tax planning, and advice for a variety of clients. In this capacity, they advise clients on financial decisions, ensure compliance with financial regulations, and guide them through complex financial situations.

Public accounting needs legal, financial, and regulatory Experienced . It provides accounting services to individuals, businesses, and governments. An important public accounting duty is auditing. Company financial statements are verified by CPAs for correctness and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) compliance. This strategy is crucial for investor, regulator, and market compliance. Tax services are essential because CPAs manage complicated and changing tax laws. This streamlines tax planning and execution. Public accountants recommend financial management, company strategy, and risk evaluation, using a number of different documents. Public accountants must be analytical, ethical, and learning-oriented.

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Thank you for choosing Stanaland, Dodson & Associates. Our team of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) is here to provide you with experienced assistance, to help you overcome any financial challenge you may face. Here at our firm, we value the importance of establishing strong connections with our clients. It is our priority to gain a comprehensive understanding of the specific details of your financial situation. Our team of CPAs goes beyond traditional accounting. They are dedicated advisors who provide outstanding service in tax management, cash flow forecasting, accounting consulting, and more. When you choose Stanaland, Dodson & Associates, you’re teaming up with a group that believes in being precise, transparent, and proactive to help you achieve financial success.

Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) are licensed accountants. Their Experienced in tax, auditing, and business advice services is well-known. To earn this prestigious designation, persons must meet rigorous educational requirements, pass a rigorous test, and commit to ongoing professional development. CPAs usually work in public accounting, serving people, corporations, and organizations. In public accounting, CPAs do audits, financial reporting, tax planning, and advice for a variety of clients. In this capacity, they advise clients on financial decisions, ensure compliance with financial regulations, and guide them through complex financial situations.

Public accounting needs legal, financial, and regulatory experience. It provides accounting services to individuals, businesses, and governments. An important public accounting duty is auditing. Company financial statements are verified by CPAs for correctness and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) compliance. This strategy is crucial for investor, regulator, and market compliance. Tax services are essential because CPAs manage complicated and changing tax laws. This streamlines tax planning and execution. Public accountants recommend financial management, company strategy, and risk evaluation, using a number of different documents. Public accountants must be analytical, ethical, and learning-oriented.

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About us

Why you need us?

A corporation needs a public accountant to comply with financial and tax rules and ensure its financial statements correctly represent its fiscal health. Public accountants advise organizations on financial planning and risk management to boost growth and profit.

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Compliance and Regulatory Experienced

CPAs are well-versed in current financial regulations and tax laws, ensuring that a company's financial practices comply with legal standards, which helps to avoid costly penalties and legal issues.

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Strategic Financial Planning and Analysis

Certified Public Accountants provide valuable insights into financial planning and analysis, helping with budgeting, forecasting, and strategic decision-making to drive business growth and efficiency.

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Tax Planning and Optimization

CPAs are experiences in tax planning, helping businesses to identify tax-saving opportunities, ensuring efficient tax compliance, and advising on the implications of business decisions on tax obligations.

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Business Valuation

A business valuation is a process conducted by professional analysts to determine the economic value of an owner’s interest in a business. A business valuation may be formal or informal based on the specific need.

About us

Why you need us?

A corporation needs a public accountant to comply with financial and tax rules and ensure its financial statements correctly represent its fiscal health. Public accountants advise organizations on financial planning and risk management to boost growth and profit.

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Compliance and Regulatory Experience

CPAs are well-versed in current financial regulations and tax laws, ensuring that a company's financial practices comply with legal standards, which helps to avoid costly penalties and legal issues.

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Strategic Financial Planning and Analysis

Certified Public Accountants provide valuable insights into financial planning and analysis, helping with budgeting, forecasting, and strategic decision-making to drive business growth and efficiency.

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Tax Planning and Optimization

CPAs are experienced in tax planning, helping businesses to identify tax-saving opportunities, ensuring efficient tax compliance, and advising on the implications of business decisions on tax obligations.

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Audit and Assurance Services

Through rigorous audits, CPAs offer assurance on the accuracy and reliability of financial statements, which is crucial for investor confidence and meeting regulatory requirements.

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Experienced in Every Detail

Empowering Your Financial Journey with Experienced and Trust

How We Work

CPAs are known for their thorough and detailed approach, which guarantees top-notch service for their clients. First, CPAs do a thorough client onboarding. Understanding the client’s company, finances, and aspirations is important. We scrutinize financial statements, tax filings, and company financial procedures. We tailor their strategy to each client’s needs and challenges by carrying out rigorous research. CPAs also remain abreast of regulatory developments and industry standards. Our advice and methods are current and compliant with regulations.

 

CPAs provide services in an organized and iterative manner. Let’s look at audit and assurance services: The first phase is audit planning, where we assess risks and scope. After that, we gather and analyze financial data, verify, and validate financial records. CPAs evaluate internal controls to guarantee accurate financial reporting without major mistakes. CPAs play an essential part in tax and advisory services by helping with strategic tax planning, spotting opportunities to save on taxes, and offering guidance on intricate tax matters. We ensure correct and timely tax filings, reducing audits and fines. By communicating consistently, CPAs keep clients informed and provide recommendations. This method ensures accuracy and compliance in financial reporting and helps the organization make decisions and prepare for the future.

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How We Work

CPAs are known for their thorough and detailed approach, which guarantees top-notch service for their clients. First, CPAs do a thorough client onboarding. Understanding the client’s company, finances, and aspirations is important. We scrutinize financial statements, tax filings, and company financial procedures. We tailor their strategy to each client’s needs and challenges by carrying out rigorous research. CPAs also remain abreast of regulatory developments and industry standards. Our advice and methods are current and compliant with regulations.

 

CPAs provide services in an organized and iterative manner. Let’s look at audit and assurance services: The first phase is audit planning, where we assess risks and scope. After that, we gather and analyze financial data, verify, and validate financial records. CPAs evaluate internal controls to guarantee accurate financial reporting without major mistakes. CPAs play an essential part in tax and advisory services by helping with strategic tax planning, spotting opportunities to save on taxes, and offering guidance on intricate tax matters. We ensure correct and timely tax filings, reducing audits and fines. By communicating consistently, CPAs keep clients informed and provide recommendations. This method ensures accuracy and compliance in financial reporting and helps the organization make decisions and prepare for the future.

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What Our Client Says?

Learn about Stanaland, Dodson & Associates’ dedication to happy clients and first-rate service. To see why we are the go-to accounting firm for our clients, read their reviews.

Navigating the financial side of healthcare can be daunting. The CPAs at Stanaland, Dodson & Associates have made it manageable, and their advice has been spot-on every time.

Greg P. Medical Professional

Navigating the financial side of healthcare can be daunting. The CPAs at Stanaland, Dodson & Associates have made it manageable, and their advice has been spot-on every time.

Emily G. CEO of Tech Start-up

In the hospitality industry, every penny counts. The team at Stanaland, Dodson & Associates has been instrumental in improving our financial processes and profitability.

David K. Restaurant Owner

What stands out about Stanaland, Dodson & Associates is their personalized approach. They really take the time to understand your business and offer tailored solutions.

Lisa M. Retail Business Owner

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Ryan Dodson

Partner

NC CPA License 24326

Years Experience: 30 years

I enjoy helping entrepreneurs achieve their goals and dreams. During my 30 years of guiding clients, I discovered they are experiences in their field – my advice: do what you excel at; hire everything else out. And that is where we come in. We are experiences in financial, cash flow and tax planning. I really enjoy helping clients meet their financial goals.

Why – because everyone goes into business because they want the success of their business to do something for them or their families or their employees or their community. The better I can understand their personal reason why they want their business to succeed, the better I can help them set benchmarks to reach those goals.

I also enjoy working on individual tax returns. Over the past 20 years, I’ve supervised the preparation of over 37,000 tax returns. If you can think of it, I can assure you that I’ve probably seen it.

I have been happily married for the past 30 years. Proud father of two daughters who are 4th generation graduates of their respective universities, UNC-Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University.

I love to play golf, although my handicap does not reflect my passion for the sport. However, we are working on moving my handicap to a respectable number. If you wish to play golf, just let me know and I’m sure we can come up with a weak excuse to go play.

Ryan is not the typical CPA. Unlike most CPAs, Ryan actually has a personality. Others reflect that the difference arises in his entrepreneurial passion for franchises that has honed his operations and people skills as he has worked with some international franchise companies. Meet Ryan and decide for yourself; is the expected CPA?

Ryan taps his 20 years of franchising experience and eight years working with small, medium and Fortune 500 companies in public accounting to help franchisees meet their goals. In April 2019, Ryan left his position as Chief Strategy Officer at Liberty Tax which has 3,000 plus offices in the US and Canada. Ryan has multi-brand franchise experience, including three years as a Regional Director at Liberty Tax with a team that supported over 500 franchisees, 34 area developers and well over 1,000 stores. Additionally, as a Liberty Tax franchisee, he owned one of the top 10 offices and has grown his Area Development unit count from 4 to 90 stores in eight years. In 2024, Ryan purchased a Certified Public Accounting firm, founded in 1984, serving clients across various industries. It aligns with his goals of helping business owners achieve their dreams, serving clients “Beyond the Bottom Line”.

In his own words. “I enjoy helping entrepreneurs achieve their goals and dreams. During my 30 years of guiding clients, I discovered they are experiences in their field – my advice: do what you excel at; hire everything else out. And that is where we come in. We are experiences in financial, cash flow and tax planning. I really enjoy helping clients meet their financial goals.

Why – because everyone goes into business because they want the success of their business to do something for them or their families or their employees or their community. The better I can understand their personal reason why they want their business to succeed, the better I can help them set benchmarks to reach those goals.

I also enjoy working on individual tax returns. Over the past 20 years, I’ve supervised the preparation of over 37,000 tax returns. If you can think of it, I can assure you that I’ve probably seen it”.

Specialties: Accounting, Operations, Franchisee Relations,, Entrepreneurship and Small Business

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Bill Stanaland

Partner

NC CPA License # 13632

Accounting Credentials:

  • 1980 Certified Public Accountant- Florida
  • 1982 Certified Public Accountant North Carolina
  • 1992 Certified Financial Planner
  • 1995 Certified Valuation Analyst

I continue to work because I love my clients and helping with their business and financial needs.

I enjoy competitive power lifting even if aches and pains with age is starting to impact .

Education

  • William W Stanaland III received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting
    from the University of Central Florida in 1978.

 

Professional Licenses

  • During 1980 Mr. Stanaland received his license to practice as a Certified Public Accountant from the state of Florida. During 1982 Mr. Stanaland received his license to practice as a Certified Public Accountant in the state of North Carolina.
  • During 1992 Mr. Stanaland received his license to practice as a Certified Financial Planner.
    He currently does not practice as a Certified Financial Planner.
  • During 1995 Mr. Stanaland received his license to practice as a Certified Valuation Analyst.
     

Work Experience

  • Mr. Stanaland has worked in the financial service profession since 1975. He currently is a partner in
     Stanaland Dodson & Associates Associates LLP, 
    Stanaland Dodson & Associates is  located in Winston Salem NC.  Our firm provides tax and financial services as well as litigation support services including valuations and Forensic accounting services.
  • Mr. Stanaland has written articles on various tax areas and has given presentations on Tax, Estate and Financial planning subjects. Mr. Stanaland has participated as a lecturer in continuing education courses.
  • Mr. Stanaland has testified and served as an experience witness in equitable distribution , lost income, shareholder disputes and other cases

 

Valuation Services.

  • Mr. Stanaland has experience in valuing businesses from many different industries including medical, construction, real-estate , manufacturing and beer wholesalers .

 

Professional Organizations.

  • Mr. Stanaland is a member of the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants, The America Institute of CPA’s , North Carolina Association of CPA’s and the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts
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Cynthia Ward

Accounting Clerk

Years Experience: 40 years

Hobbies, interesting facts, etc. to share with clients:

Reading, traveling, sewing, knitting, gardening, spending time with my family.

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