Welcome to Accounting By Zust, LLC
ABZLLC - From A to Z including Accounting, Bookkeeping, IT Support, Payroll, & Taxation
What We Do
Accounting, Bookkeeping, Payroll, & Reporting
Staff accountants are typically unaffordable for small businesses. With our Relationship Model program, your small business can reap the benefits of a staff accountant at a fraction of the cost. Powered by Intuit's QuickBooks Online (QBO), our firm can provide real-time interactive bookkeeping and accounting services, easy to use integrated payroll with direct deposit and online paystubs for employees, period reporting to help manage your business, credit and debit card acceptance as well as e-checks, and the professional look and feel of doing business in the technology age. Using the holistic approach to our product offerings, we believe the level of insight into a business professional's needs are best met when we have enough information to provide competent consultations and advice.
Taxation & Regulation
Regulatory agencies can be imposing or even fearful to small businesses. Laws are ever changing and knowing what impacts your business can be a constant challenge. Timely preparation and filing can go a long way in preventing unfavorable situations. Trust us for your business filings and support.
Relationship Model
Predicting outcomes, or reading the curve, is a most challenging aspect facing businesses. As a small business, we understand the value of knowing. Knowing how much your professional is going to cost prompted us to formulate a relationship fee schedule. A monthly fee spreads costs throughout the year and provides cost certainty for our services.
Service Offerings
Bookkeeping
Bookkeeping
Bookkeeping
Information is valuable. Timing of information is paramount. Our bookkeeping services provide reportable information when it is needed whether monthly, quarterly, annually, or somewhere in between. The foundation of understanding required for small businesses comes from bookkeeping, whether it is for management decisions or tax responsibilities. A time consuming process, many small businesses can benefit from outsourcing this valuable task and focus their time on production.
Payroll
Bookkeeping
Bookkeeping
An essential component of many businesses, payroll is a requirement for paying employees and many small business owners. Many employees expect direct deposit and electronically viewable paystubs. Employers need to save time in processing payroll and ensure payroll taxes and related payments are made timely. With our relationship model, we provide a medium for this business component, with the support required to ensure that payroll elements function smoothly.
Accounting
Bookkeeping
Accounting
Accounting is on another level above bookkeeping. While bookkeeping records standard transactions on the ground floor, accounting takes a bird's eye view to make sure the whole system is reporting properly. Accounting also involves communicating with parties on matters such as credit applications, investment activities, acquisitions, and more. Bookkeeping services without accounting services is simply less than the combination of the two.
Taxes
Privacy and Confidentiality
Accounting
With over 70,000 pages in the Internal Revenue Code, knowing what applies and when to apply it can be daunting. Top it off with changes made by an Act of Congress and now something that was, isn't, and something that wasn't, is. The IRS also issues publications, with one referring to another, which then refers to another, and so on, which can leave anyone with uncertainty. Being familiar with the language, we help provide simplification of the Tax Code by presenting matters that are applicable to the individual's situation and focusing our guidance on those matters.
Advisory and Consultation
Privacy and Confidentiality
Privacy and Confidentiality
Having experiences with such diverse clients, our firm assists a broad spectrum of clients in the decision making process. Often times, advisory and consultation matters require a more intimate perspective. Having been trusted by clients to provide sound, impartial, third party perspectives, our knowledge base has grown extensively leading to ever improving services in this area. Included in our Relationship Model, clients have found this to be an invaluable option with relatively easy access.
Privacy and Confidentiality
Privacy and Confidentiality
Privacy and Confidentiality
As a professional accounting firm, we are bound by certain rules and regulations when it comes to confidentiality. However, simply adhering to the legal or moral minimum is unacceptable to our firm. Maintaining privacy and confidentiality is a foremost prerogative for our practice. However, this is a one-way street. Our practice grew because our clients shared their experiences with people they cared about and respected, and then some of those people became our clients, who then shared. We appreciate all of the experience sharing and loyalty shown by our existing clients and strive to meet, if not exceed, expectations on a regular basis.
Meet Mr. Zust, Practitioner
A Hometown Helper
A Lakeland, Florida native, Stephen P. Zust II is a graduate of the local school system. After graduating from George Jenkins High School, Stephen graduated from Polk Community College with an Associate of Arts degree before obtaining his Bachelors of Science from Florida Southern College. Believing in lifelong education, Stephen continued in his education at Florida Southern College where he graduated with a Masters of Business Administration.
Stephen has a wide range of experience working in all three sizes of public accounting firms as well as having internal client experience. These professional experiences helped form invaluable perspective which Stephen uses to translate into advice for his clients.
By providing practical knowledge and using his unique learned perspective, Stephen is able to provide targeted, individualized advise and techniques for clients to better understand the aspects of accounting and tax that are relatable to their practices. Striving to make your life better, Stephen understands how to answer your accounting problem.
Client Industry List
* Realtors and Real Estate
* Law Office
* Medical Office
* Insurance Agency
* Barber/Salon
* Construction
* Maintenance
* Non-Profit
* Homeowner Associations
* Retail Shops
* and MANY MORE!