About
Welcome to The Business Advisors
Ron Aho
CGA/CPA(Canada), AFSP, Founder and President
Ron founded and operated two Accounting firms over the last 30 years. He also founded a successful commercial cleaning company and a retail store. Ron is also a real estate investor. As both an entrepreneur and an accountant, he knows what businesses need in order to succeed. Ron is a member of the CGA(Certified General Accountants Association of Canada), CPA(Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada), National Society of Accountants, Minnesota Real Estate Investors Association, participates in the IRS Annual Filing Season Record of Completion Program and is a Certified QuickBooks Advisor. Ron is an active member of his church and occasionally you will find him in a boat trying to catch some fish or chasing a golf ball on his favorite golf course.
Kirk Cox
Senior Business Tax/Accounting Advisor
Kirk has worked in the tax and accounting industry since 1995. In that time, he has been with 3 firms and owned his own tax and accounting business. He prides himself in tax planning and especially helping businesses reduce their tax burden.
Kirk grew up on a dairy farm and has a history in agriculture. Kirk taught high school vocational agriculture and ag mechanics for a year and a half. Later he worked for Land O’ Lakes as a Dairy Rep for 13 years. assisting dairy farmers with milk quality and facility inspections. He developed a program assisting dairy farmers to improve herd reproductive performance and production. He went to Poland, about the time the communists lost power (early 1990), and assisted them with improving the dairy industry from farm to retail. He was sent to Turkey twice to help a company improve their dairy procurement and milk quality so they could get a loan from the world bank.
He has two children, 6 granddaughters, and one grandson. The oldest granddaughter won the MN State High School Girls Basketball Championship with Elk River in 2017. His grandchildren are great students and active in school.
For fun Kirk could hold his own at the bowling alley averaging 175-180. He likes golf, travelling, sightseeing, and camping. He has personally been to 45 of the 50 United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Poland, Italy and Turkey. He also has many interesting stories to tell from the time he was a Black Jack dealer.
Loras Holmberg
Business Accounting Advisor (Bookkeeping/Payroll)
For Loras, the bells to ring in accounting are many and varied. Accuracy, timeliness, knowledge, anticipation of needs, clear communication, implementation of change, and solid people skills are all important.
His 30-plus years of accounting experience are primarily in the trucking and commercial real estate industries. Career highlights would be implementing hardware and software system changes on multiple occasions.
Loras knows his passions…walking, biking, cooking, socializing, politics, and the conservation of wild lands. During the summers of 1983 and 2015 he ducked out of the regular work world to work accounting positions in Yellowstone National Park. During each of the two summers, he hiked over 100 miles in the backcountry.
Isaac Richter
Tax/Accounting Advisor
Isaac has been working in tax and accounting for more than a decade. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from St. Cloud State University. He is a Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor and participates in the Annual Filing Season Program for tax preparers.
He specializes in small business and individual tax planning, preparation, and consultation. As a small business owner he understands the challenges of growing a business. He enjoys helping individuals with their taxes and making sure they get their questions answered.
“I meet people from all walks of life, and that is one of the things that makes this job interesting and fun. Being able to help people with the challenges of tax and accounting is very rewarding.” –Isaac
When Isaac is not at work he enjoys listening to music, reading, doing anything outdoors, and a good slice of lemon meringue pie.”
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. And 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 start things off 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 since YEAR FOUNDED—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’ 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 on this page to request this exclusive, free report from us, and we’ll rush your copy to you immediately.
And of course, feel free to poke around our site and discover why I’ve been called “The Most Trusted Tax Professional in the Minnesota Area”.
Talk again soon,
Ron Aho
PS — When you grab our free report, 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 (763) 493-3940 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!
What our Clients are saying
Business Advisors has been doing our business taxes for years and my personal for a few years now. They are always there answering any questions I have and keep all our books up to date all year round making tax time headache free. I would highly recommend them for your business and personal tax needs!
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