PAY LESS TO THE IRS!
Specializing in Proactive Tax, Financial, and Retirement Planning.
A Boutique Accounting Firm Focusing on Proactive Tax Reduction Planning
About Us
Our Services
From start-ups to established enterprises, businesses rely on accurate and insightful financial information in order to maintain profitability and capitalize on new opportunities. Columbia CPA Group, LLC’s accounting services steer you closer to these goals with accurate record-keeping and reporting as well as support on financial issues such as initial accounting system setup, cost-containment, tax planning and investments.
These services include but are not limited to:
- Proactive Tax Planning
- Tax Preparation
- Amended Business and Personal returns
- Estate Tax Planning
- Tax Coaching
- Business Formation & Start-up services
- Life Insurance
- Fixed Annuities
- Financial Planning
- Litigation Support
- Capital Gains
- Farm Income
- Rental properties Income
- Self-Employment Income and Tax Planning
- Personal and Corporate Tax Returns
- State taxes
- Tax Resolution and Audit Defense through our sister company Serenity Tax Salvation, LLC
Our Firm
We think you will find that Columbia CPA Group is just the right size to give you the personalized service you want and the expertise you need.
As your life becomes more complex, so do your finances and taxes.
If you have:
- Income from investments
- Farming, rental property, or a small business
- Children in college
- Disability or retirement income
- Out of state or foreign income
- Clergy housing allowance
You can rest assured that our professional staff has the experience and training to prepare your taxes accurately and thoroughly.
For your small business, we offer business formation and start-up services, and management services.
Our Mission Statement
The mission of the Company is to provide outstanding, cost-effective, accounting, tax, and financial advice and assistance to our clients in order to help them build wealth, enjoy life, save taxes, and leave an inheritance that will benefit future generations.
Our Vision Statement
At Columbia CPA Group, LLC, we deliver accurate and timely consulting, tax and accounting services, by adhering to Biblical principles to help clients achieve financial and lifestyle dreams. We are successful and competitive through the utilization of cutting-edge technology in the delivery of client-centered services and pro-active advice while minimizing our impact on the environment.
Meet CCG Team
Aric Schreiner, CPA
- Aric Schreiner, CPA, PFS, CTP is the managing member of Columbia CPA Group, LLC and Serenity Tax Salvation, LLC.
- After owning Columbia CPA Group for more than ten years, he decided to devote his attention to saving people from IRS tax debt. He organized Serenity Tax Salvation, LLC in October 2016 so that he could use his decades of standing up to the IRS for the benefit of his clients.
- He became a Certified Public Accountant in 1983 and earned his Personal Finance Specialist designation 2010. He became a Certified Tax Coach a year later, joining a group of 300 other proactive tax planners, and receiving monthly training on cutting-edge, tax-saving strategies. In less than five years after becoming a Certified Tax Coach, he saved his clients more than $2.5 million in taxes. In July of 2018, he became a Certified Tax Planner (CTP).
- Aric appeared on local TV in Columbia, MO, and publishes articles about tax in Columbia Daily Tribune.
- Aric is a member of the Rotary Club of Northwest Columbia and the Columbia Chamber of Commerce.
- He is a past president of the BNI Columbia referral network.
- Aric attended Westminster College and received his BS in Business Administration from the University of Missouri in Columbia.
- For the past four years, Aric has volunteered to read twice a month to second graders as a Partner in Education at West Blvd. Elementary School.
- Aric enjoys studying the Bible and was a commissioned lay minister for 21 years.
- When his sons were younger, he was an active coach of youth sports for about ten years.
- Aric is an avid golfer as well as a die-hard St. Louis Cardinals fan and attended game 6 of the 2011 World Series with his family.
- Contact Aric by email at aric@columbiacpagroup.com
Cindy Angle
- Cindy Angle is the Office Manager at Columbia CPA Group, LLC, and Serenity Tax Salvation, LLC.
- She is dedicated to the success of our team, and has taken the initiative to make our office paperless.
- As Office Manager, Cindy does payroll, creates monthly customer statements, accounts payable and receivable, and many other office tasks.
- Cindy joined our team with a variety of backgrounds and brings a vast amount of skills gained from those fields.
- Before joining our team, she worked three years as a Certified Nurses Assistant in an intensive-care-unit; prior to that she sold home, auto, life and health insurance for five years.
- Cindy is detailed oriented and efficient, but also takes the time to make each and every client feel valued.
- Cindy is a Member of Women's Network and is on the Finance Committee. She also attends Chamber of Commerce events.
- Cindy enjoys spending time with her husband and their four children. They like to go hunting, boating, fishing and camping together.
- Contact Cindy by email at cindy@columbiacpagroup.com
Kyryl Ostryanskyy, MBA
- Kyryl Ostryanskyy, MBA is a Staff Accountant at Columbia CPA Group, LLC, and the Chief Tax Research Specialist at Serenity Tax Salvation, LLC.
- Kyryl grew up in Kherson, Ukraine. He came to the United States to pursue higher education and earned his B.A. degree in English from Columbia College in May of 2009, and received his M.B.A. in Accounting in December of 2016.
- At Columbia CPA Group, LLC, Kyryl does tax preparation, tax research, interacts with clients, and filles out tax forms.
- At Serenity Tax Salvation, LLC, Kyryl performs the initial contact with the IRS, obtains the proper forms and does the initial tax research. He also assists Aric Schreiner, CPA with preparing for conferences with the IRS Collections Division, Offers-in-Compromise (OIC), and Negotiated Installment Agreements.
- As a grad student, he interned for two local CPA firms, including Columbia CPA Group, LLC, where he earned valuable experience preparing tax returns and performing financial audits.
- Kyryl speaks English and Russian.
- In his free time, he loves to spend time with his family and friends. One of his goals in life is to visit all 50 states in the next five years.
- Contact Kyryl by email at kyryl@columbiacpagroup.com
