About Us
David T. Tunstall, CPA
I started in audit at Arthur Andersen and stayed there for 3 years (before they publicly had their issues). I then moved to financial reporting at AIG (before, too, they publicly had their issues). I was laid off from AIG the week of my wedding and when I came back a married man from my honeymoon I started ‘Tunstall Financial’, a bookkeeping & tax prep sole proprietorship in NYC. In 2004 I converted that business to an S-Corp. and renamed it ‘The Tunstall Organization, Inc.’ aka TTO.
TTO has been a boutique firm for start-ups, non-profits, and even restaurants (for a few years) since then. In 2017, I moved the business from NYC to Charlotte, NC, and for the past 6 years, our team has been anywhere from 1-4 contractors on the bookkeeping side and 0-1 tax preparers, depending on the season.
I’ve recently been more focused on being the ‘CFO’ for small businesses. In that role, I’m able to help business owners of businesses between $500K and $10M in revenues use their financial statements to focus on their objectives and reach their goals for their businesses.
Let Us Help:
Dear Friend,
I have a feeling I know why you’re reading this right now.
You need more time in your day. Running a business is extremely demanding and there just isn’t enough time in the day to keep all the plates from spinning out of control. What you need most right now is more proactive help with your business finances and tax strategy. As soon as possible. In fact, yesterday would have been ideal. Am I close?
We get it. We’ve worked with plenty of businesses who have to cobble together 9 different software programs to keep everything straight, or who just wash their hands of it all and put everything on the credit card … and then try to clean up every year after the fact. And they know that this is no way to properly monitor profit margins, cash controls, account management, tax strategy and all of the myriad components of an effective financial system for a business.
Perhaps this is your story too. Or perhaps you’ve reached a stage of development in your business that you want to pass the baton of accounting to another expert team so your expert team can focus on what they do best: making sales and taking care of customers.
Or are you just starting your business and want to begin on the right foot?
Whatever the reason, we want you to know that our team has been diligently and effectively taking care of the accounting needs of countless organizations in a wide variety of industries—discreetly and expertly handling the ongoing financial management of tax burdens, payroll, bookkeeping, and other comprehensive accounting services while providing expertise in business planning, coaching, and strategic consulting that many businesses need.
Because here’s a certain truth as it relates to taxes and your business: The State and Federal Government would love to have more of your business’s hard-earned money in their accounts. And yes, even though it’s painful, none of us begrudge paying our legal and fair share of taxes. But the problem is that regular business owners, like you, are missing out on legal and safe deductions to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed refunds every year.
It doesn’t have to be this way. 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, feeling guilty about the time you should be devoting to keeping your business profitable.
In fact, to help you find answers to your questions, I’ve compiled some resources in the last couple of years for business people like you in response to the specific tax and accounting questions I’ve received from my clients.
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 CPA in the Charlotte Area.”
Talk again soon,
David T. Tunstall, CPA
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 financials on their own. Our schedule is very full … but if you call us at 212-420-1077 or Email Us, we’ll give you two options for coming in right away. We will NOT make dealing with an accountant as painful as dealing with your books has already been!
Customer Stories
"We have worked with David and his team for the last two years. We started working together right after the Covid pandemic and he had to deal with cleaning up very complicated financials. He has brought clarity, order, and operating structure into our day to day operations. We highly recommend."
- Zoie Coe, owner, www.kidandcoe.com
"David and the Tunstall team have been with our firm for over five years across many stages of growth and economic activity and all throughout this period have steadfastly supported, assisted and serviced beyond our expectations. I highly recommend David's team for their knowledge, insights, attention to detail and overall high quality and value added service. As a CFO I demand quality and David and his team fit this bill."
- Ben Steinberg, CFO, www.upstackhq.com
"The Tunstall Organization has been a lifesaver for Pear Deck as we've scaled our education startup. Not only do they handle the routine backend accounting for us, but they're also responsive to our ideas and questions. They've been a perfect fit for a startup at our stage and allow us to focus on work of product and customer development."
- Anthony Showalter, CEO, www.peardeck.com (now www.GoGuardian.com)
"With David's help, accounting systems were streamlined, the chart of accounts and balance sheet were re-organized and the organization’s financial reports were improved and brought up to industry standards."
- Sue Devine, Executive Director, www.aflouvre.org
"I hired David and his team to run our accounting, bookkeeping, and tax preparation, as well as assist with post-acquisition finance. I was impressed with the firm’s consistent professionalism and dedication to our company’s success."
- Andy Artz, Finance, www.OMGPOP.com - (now www.socialcapital.com)
"I had a great experience working with The Tunstall Organization. They are very service minded and professional. They understood I needed a lot of help and provided top-notch support throughout the process. I will use them going forward and would happily recommend them to anyone else."
- Wilhelm Hoffman, CEO, www.hoffmanwatches.com
"We have been working with the Tunstall Organization now for many years and they are our trusted accounting and tax service provider. We use them for multiple entities and David and his team have been fantastic to deal with; and very professional and prompt in their responses too. They are an excellent CPA firm that I could not recommend more highly. As a CPA myself, I know what level of service I would expect from an accounting and tax firm; and David and his team are the best I have worked with."
- Amron D'Silva, CFO,www.usqcapital.com