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CW Associates, CPAs: Accounting professionals who exhibit
honesty, respect and teamwork

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CW Associates, CPAs: Accounting professionals who exhibit
honesty, respect and teamwork

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CW Associates, CPAs, is one of the top firms in Hawaii because of its strong and good reputation in the accounting industry. The firm has been a significant professional resource for several entities and their management team since it provides accounting, auditing, and other assurance services to for-profit and nonprofit corporations.

CW Associates, CPAs, currently has more than 20 professional staff and other committed professional support. Each of them has an extensive experience in business and accountancy because all of them has been a part of different and major accounting businesses throughout Hawaii and in the Pacific Islands.

The continued success of CW Associates, CPAs, is no doubt because of the hardwork of their staff. They are always committed to provide the best services to numerous businesses and their owners. Each of them has a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s degree in business administration or accounting, and also a licensed CPA. Most of them are also dynamic members of several organizations related to accounting.

Carleton Williams is the one who founded CW Associates, CPAs, in July 2008. He has more than 30 years of public accounting experience. He also demonstrates his exceptional capabilities in an international accounting firm called Deloitte for 11 years.

With also more than 30 years of public accounting experience, Rodney Harano became the managing partner of CW Associates, CPAs. His professional experience is focused on helping businesses and their owners.

With more than 27 years of public accounting experience, Terri Fujii serves as the audit partner of CW Associates, CPAs. She is also a proud professional with 10 years of experience with Ernst & Young.

With more than 15 years of public accounting experience, Mark Hayes acts as the tax partner of CW Associates, CPAs. He has five years of broad experience with Ernst & Young in Honolulu. He also has seven years of professional experience in a certified public accounting firm in Los Angeles and another seven years of wide experience as the corporate tax director at Outrigger Hotels & Resorts.

One of the tax partners of CW Associates, CPAs, and also its personal financial specialist is Melanie King. She has six years of experience managing the Trust Tax Department of Bank of Hawaii, and 11 years of accounting experience with Pricewaterhouse Coopers.

With more than 26 years of public accounting experience, Lori Taira works as the tax senior manager of CW Associates, CPAs. She’s also been a part of Deloitte for 19 years before joining the firm.

With more than eight years of public accounting experience, Lauren Bresnahan performs as the audit manager of CW Associates, CPAs. She’s also been a proud member of an international accounting firm in Washington, D.C. and Honolulu for five years called KPMG.

Furthermore, Mark Inafuku is also the audit manager of the firm and has been a part of KPMG in Honolulu before joining CW Associates, CPAs.

Without the great efforts of the people mentioned above, CW Associates, CPAs wouldn’t become this successful. The firm has its good reputation today because of the important contributions of these professionals.

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CW Associates, CPAs: Your partner in understanding your business

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CW Associates, CPAs: Your partner in understanding your business

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CW Associates, CPAs, provides accounting, auditing, and other assurance services to for-profit and nonprofit organizations. The firm consists of more than 30 qualified staff and other professional support committed to deliver great accounting, auditing, and other assurance services.
The approach of CW Associates is tailored in order to guarantee that the firm is a catalyst for a prepared and available service throughout the year. They could also accomplish their job in an efficient and opportune manner. The firm promises to continue providing excellent services in the future with the same knowledgeable staff.
The staff of CW Associates performs their accounting and auditing activities on their laptop computers with professional computer software. They also subscribe to and use several publications of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Commerce Clearing House (CCH), and the Practitioners Publishing Corporation, including the electronic versions that are always available to the staff on their laptop computers.
Those publications mentioned above contain programs and checklists designed specifically for use by practicing certified public accountants (CPAs) on accounting and auditing activities in general and specialized industries. CW Associates approach is to use those programs and checklists on each of its activities, and to make them part of the documentation that supports their work.
CW Associates is positive that they are providing the best and latest professional care and attention to their clients because those publications are updated regularly and used by thousands of practicing CPAs across the country.
CW Associates is also a dynamic member of the Private Companies Practice Section of the AICPA, along with the AICPA Government Audit Quality Center and the AICPA Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center.
The mentioned memberships provide CW Associates with technical support on commercial, government and nonprofit activities. They also require the firm to make public results of their peer review. Since its inception, CW Associates and its predecessor firm received unmodified peer review reports without letters of comments in each of their peer reviews.
The firm also provides tax planning and compliance services for businesses and their owners, and nonprofit entities. Their tax professionals work significantly with individuals and business owners, C corporations, S corporations, limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships, general and limited partnerships, nonprofit entities with for-profit subsidiaries, and trusts and estates.
CW Associates is experienced with companies doing business in more than one state and have access to tax professionals in others states. The firm often analyzes tax planning opportunities and transactions in progress for tax planning purposes. They have extensive experience in tax issues for nonprofit organizations.
Their tax professionals also have worked extensively in resolving audit issues with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and state office of the Department of Taxation in Hawaii general excise tax and other local tax issues unique to the country.
CW Associates method is to add the expertise of a qualified local CPA firm to their client’s available resources. They ask for frequent contact to encourage questions from their clients in order to resolve issues as they arise during the year, rather than waiting until after the end of the year. The firm’s focus is on assisting their clients comply with regulatory requirements and improving financial and operational performance.
CW Associates were conducting peer reviews in order to help enhance the quality of the CPA profession even before peer reviews were required of CPAs providing audit services in Hawaii. Their peer reviews are certified by the AICPA to conduct such peer review services.
CW Associates has been providing great accounting and tax expertise to its clients in Hawaii since 1989. Even if it’s a local firm, its services are similar to what big firms could offer. The firm was ranked as the 9th largest CPA firm in Hawaii in the 2014 Pacific Business News “Book of Lists” since it has a professional staff of 30 accountants, including six partners.
Each of their partner and professional staff is licensed certified public accountants (CPAs) with master’s degrees in business administration or accounting that has experience with an international accounting firm. Their hands-on approach and low partner-to-staff ratio assure you that you will have direct contact with experienced certified public accountants (CPAs).
CW Associates, CPAs is indeed one of the leading firms in and throughout Hawaii. They assure that every client receives the close analysis and attention they deserve by combining the firm’s expertise, experience and the team mentality of their staff. Their dedication to high standards, hiring of seasoned tax professionals, and work ethic is the reason their client base returns every year.

CW Associates has been serving Hawaii for several years now, but because of its continuous success, it might also have possible expansion in Tokyo, Japan in the upcoming years.

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CW Associates, CPAs, provides accounting, auditing, and other assurance services to for-profit and nonprofit organizations. The firm consists of more than 30 qualified staff and other professional support committed to deliver great accounting, auditing, and other assurance services.
The approach of CW Associates is tailored in order to guarantee that the firm is a catalyst for a prepared and available service throughout the year. They could also accomplish their job in an efficient and opportune manner. The firm promises to continue providing excellent services in the future with the same knowledgeable staff.
The staff of CW Associates performs their accounting and auditing activities on their laptop computers with professional computer software. They also subscribe to and use several publications of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Commerce Clearing House (CCH), and the Practitioners Publishing Corporation, including the electronic versions that are always available to the staff on their laptop computers.
Those publications mentioned above contain programs and checklists designed specifically for use by practicing certified public accountants (CPAs) on accounting and auditing activities in general and specialized industries. CW Associates approach is to use those programs and checklists on each of its activities, and to make them part of the documentation that supports their work.
CW Associates is positive that they are providing the best and latest professional care and attention to their clients because those publications are updated regularly and used by thousands of practicing CPAs across the country.
CW Associates is also a dynamic member of the Private Companies Practice Section of the AICPA, along with the AICPA Government Audit Quality Center and the AICPA Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center.
The mentioned memberships provide CW Associates with technical support on commercial, government and nonprofit activities. They also require the firm to make public results of their peer review. Since its inception, CW Associates and its predecessor firm received unmodified peer review reports without letters of comments in each of their peer reviews.
The firm also provides tax planning and compliance services for businesses and their owners, and nonprofit entities. Their tax professionals work significantly with individuals and business owners, C corporations, S corporations, limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships, general and limited partnerships, nonprofit entities with for-profit subsidiaries, and trusts and estates.
CW Associates is experienced with companies doing business in more than one state and have access to tax professionals in others states. The firm often analyzes tax planning opportunities and transactions in progress for tax planning purposes. They have extensive experience in tax issues for nonprofit organizations.
Their tax professionals also have worked extensively in resolving audit issues with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and state office of the Department of Taxation in Hawaii general excise tax and other local tax issues unique to the country.
CW Associates method is to add the expertise of a qualified local CPA firm to their client’s available resources. They ask for frequent contact to encourage questions from their clients in order to resolve issues as they arise during the year, rather than waiting until after the end of the year. The firm’s focus is on assisting their clients comply with regulatory requirements and improving financial and operational performance.
CW Associates were conducting peer reviews in order to help enhance the quality of the CPA profession even before peer reviews were required of CPAs providing audit services in Hawaii. Their peer reviews are certified by the AICPA to conduct such peer review services.
CW Associates has been providing great accounting and tax expertise to its clients in Hawaii since 1989. Even if it’s a local firm, its services are similar to what big firms could offer. The firm was ranked as the 9th largest CPA firm in Hawaii in the 2014 Pacific Business News “Book of Lists” since it has a professional staff of 30 accountants, including six partners.
Each of their partner and professional staff is licensed certified public accountants (CPAs) with master’s degrees in business administration or accounting that has experience with an international accounting firm. Their hands-on approach and low partner-to-staff ratio assure you that you will have direct contact with experienced certified public accountants (CPAs).
CW Associates, CPAs is indeed one of the leading firms in and throughout Hawaii. They assure that every client receives the close analysis and attention they deserve by combining the firm’s expertise, experience and the team mentality of their staff. Their dedication to high standards, hiring of seasoned tax professionals, and work ethic is the reason their client base returns every year.

CW Associates has been serving Hawaii for several years now, but because of its continuous success, it might also have possible expansion in Tokyo, Japan in the upcoming years.

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CW Associates CPA's Hawaii, Services in Tokyo, Hong Kong and USA

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CW Associates CPA's Hawaii, Services in Tokyo, Hong Kong and USA

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Accounting and Auditing

CW Associates, CPAs, provides accounting, auditing, and other assurance services to for-profit businesses and nonprofit entities. The firm presently includesnearly 20 professional staff and other professional support dedicated to providing accounting, auditing, and other assurance services. Our service approach is designed to assure you that:

- We are a readily-available resource throughout the year.

- We will complete our work in a timely and efficient manner.

- We will continue to do so in future years with substantially the same staff.

We perform our accounting and auditing engagements on laptop computers using specialized computer software. We also subscribe to and use numerous publications of the AICPA, CCH, and the Practitioners Publishing Corporation (including the electronic versions, which are available to us at all times onour laptop computers). These publications include programs and checklists designed specifically for use by practicing certified public accountants on accounting and auditing engagements in general and specialized industries. Our practice is to use these programs and checklists on each of our engagements,and to make them part of the documentation that supports our work. Because these publications are updated regularly and used by thousands of practicing certified public accountants across the country, they assure us that we are providing our clients with the best and most up-to-date professional care andattention.

CW Associates, CPAs, is a member in good standing of the Private CompaniesPractice Section of the AICPA, as well as the AICPA Government Audit Quality Center and the AICPA Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center. Those memberships provide us with technical support on commercial, government, and nonprofit engagements. They also require us to make public the results of ourpeer review. CW Associates, CPAs, and its predecessor firm received unmodified peer review reports without letters of comments in each of their peer reviews since inception in January 1989.

Tax Services

CW Associates, CPAs, provides tax planning and compliance services for businesses and their owners, and for nonprofit entities. The firm presently includes morethan 10 professional staff and other professional support dedicated to providing tax services. Our tax professionals work extensively with individuals and business owners, C corporations, S corporations, limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships, general and limited partnerships, nonprofit entities with for profit subsidiaries, and trusts and estates. We are experienced with companies doing business in more than one state and have access to tax professionals in other states, if needed. We frequently analyze tax planning opportunities and transactions in progress for tax planning purposes. In addition, we have extensive experience in tax issues for nonprofit organizations.

Our tax professionals also have worked extensively in resolving audit issues with the Internal Revenue Service and State office Hawaii Department of Taxation on Hawaii general excise tax and other local tax issues unique to Hawaii.

General Business Consulting Services

Our approach is to add the expertise of a qualified local CPA firm to our clients' available resources. We seek frequent contact to encourage questions from our clients so we can resolve issues as they arise during the year, rather than waiting until after the end of the year. Our focus is on assisting our clients comply with regulatory requirements and improving financial and operational performance.

Peer Review Services

Even before peer reviews were required of CPAs providing audit services in Hawaii, we were conducting peer reviews to help enhance the quality of the CPAprofession. Our peer reviewers are certified by the AICPA to conduct such peerreview services.