This page lists bookkeeping and accounting firms that serve home-service and trades businesses such as HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, landscaping, and general contracting in New Orleans, LA. Each entry summarizes the firm based on its own website, and notes when a firm serves the area remotely rather than from a local office.
Firms listed: 2.
ASU, LLC #
Website: https://www.asu-llc.com
Phone: (504) 838-7140
ASU, LLC, identified on its website as Accounting Services Unlimited LLC, is an accounting and bookkeeping firm that serves businesses in the New Orleans, Louisiana area. The firm does not list a physical office in New Orleans itself. According to its website, it serves New Orleans clients through QuickBooks Online and through its Metairie office at 3939 N. Causeway Blvd, Suite 301, Metairie, LA, and it states that clients can either meet in person at that location or handle everything remotely. The firm can be reached at (504) 838-7140 and at info@asu-llc.com, and it notes on its site that it offers service in Spanish.
The firm lists several offices in addition to Metairie. The website names locations in Ponchatoula, Louisiana at 122 W. Pine St, Unit 5; Slidell, Louisiana at 1503 Gause Blvd, Suite 5; and San Diego, California, with an address in Chula Vista at 3855 Main Street. The site describes the firm as serving clients from Louisiana to California. For New Orleans specifically, the website states that the firm serves businesses throughout the Greater New Orleans metro area, including the French Quarter, Garden District, Uptown, Mid-City, Metairie, Kenner, Lakeview, Gentilly, Algiers, and several surrounding communities, and it lists nearby areas such as Slidell, Covington, Mandeville, and Baton Rouge.
The firm describes a comprehensive set of core services. These include bookkeeping, bill pay, accounts receivable, accounts payable, financial reporting, and catch-up bookkeeping. Under tax and compliance, the website lists tax services, business tax preparation, sales tax filing, payroll, and IRS audit representation. Its specialty services include new business formation, QuickBooks setup, historical accounting, licensing and permits, and nonprofit accounting. The firm states that it uses QuickBooks Online as its primary platform and that its team includes Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors who can configure a client’s file, set up class tracking and job costing, and take over an existing QuickBooks file or build one from scratch.
The website places significant emphasis on the New Orleans market. It describes the local economy as running on hospitality, tourism, and culture, with seasonal cash flow swings and complex sales tax obligations. The firm notes that Louisiana’s tax code is among the most complex in the country and that businesses may carry multi-parish sales tax obligations across Orleans and Jefferson parishes. It states that it has served Louisiana businesses for over 25 years and that it has navigated Orleans Parish, Jefferson Parish, and all 64 Louisiana parish tax requirements.
The firm names several industries it serves in the New Orleans area. Restaurants and bars are described in detail, with reference to sales tax on food and alcohol, tip reporting, liquor license compliance, and Louisiana ABC record-keeping. Professional services such as attorneys, consultants, real estate agents, insurance brokers, and contractors are also named, along with tourism and hospitality businesses including short-term rentals, tour companies, event venues, and bed-and-breakfasts. The firm describes seasonal revenue patterns tied to events such as Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest, and the Sugar Bowl.
Construction and contractors form one of the firm’s stated focus areas. The website describes construction accounting as project-based and complex, requiring each job to have its own cost tracking for labor, materials, equipment, and subcontractors. The firm states that it sets up job costing in QuickBooks, handles certified payroll for public works projects under Davis-Bacon and prevailing wage rules, manages subcontractor documentation and 1099-NEC issuance, prepares work-in-progress reporting for lenders and bonding companies, and prepares contractor business and personal tax returns. It also describes navigating Louisiana construction sales and use tax, which it characterizes as one of the most complex areas of state tax law. The firm states that it charges flat monthly rates based on transaction volume rather than hourly fees and that it offers a guarantee to pay penalties and interest if it makes an error on a client’s taxes.
In summary, the website presents ASU, LLC as a Louisiana accounting and bookkeeping firm that serves New Orleans businesses largely on a remote basis through QuickBooks Online and from its Metairie office, with additional locations in Ponchatoula, Slidell, and San Diego. Its services span bookkeeping, payroll, sales tax filing, tax preparation, QuickBooks setup, new business formation, and construction job-cost accounting.
Ericksen Krentel #
Website: https://www.ericksenkrentel.com
Phone: 504 486 7275
Ericksen Krentel is a certified public accounting and consulting firm with an office in New Orleans, Louisiana. According to its website, the firm describes itself as offering tax, accounting, audit, and forensic services and as working to navigate key business obstacles and deliver value-added solutions for its clients. The firm’s New Orleans office is located at 4227 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70119, and can be reached at 504 486 7275. The firm maintains additional offices, and its presence in New Orleans reflects an established local practice rather than a remote operation.
In addition to its New Orleans location, the website lists offices in Mandeville and Baton Rouge. The Mandeville office is at 2895 Highway 190, Suite 213, Mandeville, LA 70471, with a phone number of 985 727 0777, and the Baton Rouge office is at 8550 United Plaza Boulevard, Suite 600, Baton Rouge, LA 70809, with a phone number of 225-924-1772. This multi-office structure indicates that the firm serves clients across southeastern Louisiana while maintaining its New Orleans office on Canal Street.
The firm organizes its services into several areas on the website. Its accounting services include transaction processing and preparation, period-end closing services, and outsourced CFO and controller services. Under advisory, the firm lists business advisory and CFO services, internal audit and internal control work, IT audits, and data analytics. Its assurance services include audits and a range of related engagements described as reviews, preparations, compilations, and agreed-upon procedures, as well as peer review. These offerings indicate a practice that handles both ongoing accounting functions and formal assurance work.
The firm’s consulting services are described as covering divorce litigation, claims analysis, litigation support, and valuation services. This litigation and valuation work, combined with the firm’s stated forensic services, suggests experience with engagements that go beyond routine compliance, including matters that may involve disputes or the determination of business value. On the tax side, the website lists tax planning and estate planning among its services, indicating that the firm assists clients with both current tax matters and longer-term planning.
The website names several industries the firm serves. Construction is listed among them, indicating experience with clients in the building sector. The other named industries are healthcare, hospitality, maritime, and nonprofit. The inclusion of maritime reflects a focus area relevant to the regional economy, and the firm describes nonprofit clients as facing challenges such as a lack of reliable financial information for decision-making along with rising costs and shrinking revenues. For hospitality clients, the website emphasizes the value of understanding an organization in real time so that decisions can be made quickly.
The website lists a substantial team of partners and managers, indicating that the firm operates at a meaningful scale. Named partners include James E. Tonglet, Kenneth Howard Alford, Tani Budde, Josh Faubert, Kelly Haden, Gretchen Lozes Fischer, Kay Miller, W. Eric Powers, Jeremy Thibodeaux, Dennis J. Tizzard, Amanda Waguespack, Ronald H. Dawson, Jr., and Claude M. Silverman. The site also lists managers including Ford duQuesnay, Shannon Falgout, Ashley Elisar, Jeni Khambhati, Taylor Stephens, Tucker Thorpe, and Franziska Wagner. A careers section references career opportunities and a program identified as the PACE Program.
The firm publishes a blog and other insights on its website, describing the blog as a knowledge source for achieving business and personal financial goals. Recent items referenced on the site include articles on process versus control, year-end tax planning guides for private companies and individuals, ERISA record retention, and notices about fraudulent IRS communications. The website also references recognition of the firm, including being named to a Forbes best-in-state CPAs list and being featured in a Baton Rouge Business Report annual report, and it notes the election of new partners. The site offers a newsletter subscription, a client portal, and an option to pay invoices online. In summary, the website presents Ericksen Krentel as an established multi-office Louisiana CPA and consulting firm with a New Orleans office on Canal Street, offering accounting, assurance, tax, advisory, consulting, and forensic services to clients in industries that include construction, healthcare, hospitality, maritime, and nonprofit.