Barbara Sarvis, CPA

Tax Service

If you are a small business, just starting out, hoping to learn more about the proper way to keep books and pay taxes, and you need help setting up your accounting software, you should NOT hire Barbara Sarvis, CPA.

Apparently, she is unable provide any sort of guidance and won’t be able to help you at all.

This will be accompanied by heavy sighs, eye rolls, and hands being thrown up in the air while she says things like “I don’t know” or “I can’t help you with that”.

And she’ll even find a way to make you feel bad about it.

My friend and I started a small business in July. We took all of the necessary steps to establish ourselves legally and properly, and have kept up with our accounting to the best of our ability so far.

We sat down with Barbara for the first time today in hopes that she could help us get set up with QuickBooks.

However, when I showed her that I had connected our bank accounts to QuickBooks and asked her the best way bring in our recent transactions, she literally said “I don’t do that. I can’t help you with that.”

Then, when we took it upon ourselves to figure it out and asked her how we should label the accounts, she threw her hands up and again said, “I already told you, this isn’t what I do.”

Throughout the meeting, she greeted our questions with more questions.

She was rude and condescending, even questioning at one point if this was our full-time job, indicating that maybe two busy moms couldn’t possibly be competent business owners in need of accounting services.

She had no knowledge of how the taxes in our industry would work for our state (which is the same state where she works).

She encouraged us to “look it up” on the state tax website.

That caught us off-guard since we assumed that a CPA would be knowledgeable about how a small business should set up their taxes.

She seemed completely confused the entire time and was not able to give us a single piece of guidance regarding our accounting or taxes.

In reading Barbara’s other reviews I can see that Stephanie (from 2012) said, “She is very patient with my less-than-enlightened questions and always has helpful suggestions for bookeeping and returns.”

Maybe something has drastically changed in the past 5 years because we didn’t see even a glimmer of that helpful, patient person being described.

In fact, she was the exact opposite. What I found extra hurtful about this encounter is that Barbara has done my husband’s corporate taxes and my family’s personal taxes for the past couple of years, so we were obviously shocked and discouraged by the disrespectful treatment my business partner and I received today.

Needless to say, we will now be seeking accounting help elsewhere for our personal needs as both of our businesses.

To sum it up, Barbara can help you figure out everything you need to know, as long as you have already figured out everything you need to know.

If you would like to understand your accounting and learn how to set it up properly, go elsewhere.

Is Barbara Sarvis, CPA a legit?

Barbara Sarvis, CPA is not running a legit business. They are not aggressive towards customer satisfaction and complaint grievance redressal, Hence 4 consumer[s] submitted negative ratings, and only a few left positive feedback.

Where is Barbara Sarvis, CPA located?

Barbara Sarvis, CPA is headquarted at 8520 Six Forks Rd Ste 202 Raleigh, NC 27615. You can contact Barbara Sarvis, CPA by dialing (919) 518-0532 or visit their website sarviscpa.com.

How much monetary loss is incurred by Barbara Sarvis, CPA’s customers?

According to Barbara Sarvis, CPA’s customers, a monetary loss of US $2177 has been reported. The severity of entire incident reports is medium.

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4 Reviews on Barbara Sarvis, CPA

  1. It is a pleasure working with her and knowing her work is accurate and timely.

    Barbara has been a tremendous help in helping me pay my taxes on time and correctly despite having to deal with me living out of state and even out of the country. It is a pleasure working with her and knowing her work is accurate and timely.

  2. If you don't want people calling for appointments don't list your number.

    Well I called looking for a CPA for tax preparation and upon Barbara answering the phone she promptly explained they don’t take soliciting calls and hung up on me. One, if I had a chance to speak I could have said I was looking to be come a customer and schedule an appointment and two it was just unprofessional to hang up on a potential customer.

    If you don’t want people calling for appointments don’t list your number. So when I called back to see why I had been treated so rudely I pretty much got the same response and they don’t take new customers anyways so again why list your number or at least say your full online for tax prep so you don’t waste peoples time.

    Unprofessional and rude, I will take my business elsewhere. considering all the CPAs you may want to not alienate customers.

  3. Unprofessional and rude

    Original: Well I called looking for a CPA for tax preparation and upon Barbara answering the phone she promptly explained they don’t take soliciting calls and hung up on me. One, if I had a chance to speak I could have said I was looking to be come a customer and schedule an appointment and two it was just unprofessional to hang up on a potential customer.

    If you don’t want people calling for appointments don’t list your number. So when I called back to see why I had been treated so rudely I pretty much got the same response and they don’t take new customers anyways so again why list your number or at least say your full online for tax prep so you don’t waste peoples time.

    Unprofessional and rude, I will take my business elsewhere. considering all the CPAs you may want to not alienate customers.

  4. Couldn't tell me who to recommend either.

    Called mid February and told me not taking any more new clients. Apparently she doesn’t want business. Couldn’t tell me who to recommend either.

Reviews: 4
Reported Loss : 2177 $
Severity : Medium
Reported by : Anonymous
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