Strategic financial operations for modern Asheville businesses.
Integrity Accounting helps entrepreneurs, creatives, and growing businesses across the Blue Ridge build financially organized companies — through proactive advisory support, modern cloud systems, and a long-term partnership rooted right here in downtown Asheville.
Run the business you set out to build.
Most founders we meet aren't looking for another piece of software or another stack of spreadsheets. They're looking for calm — a partner who brings order to the financial side of the business so they can focus on the work, the team, and the life they actually came to Asheville to build.
- Operational chaos & disorganized books
- Financial stress and end-of-year surprises
- Reactive decision-making
- Inconsistent systems and unclear cash flow
- Tax time feels like a scramble
- Operational clarity and clean monthly close
- Financial visibility you can plan around
- Proactive, calm strategic leadership
- Modern cloud systems that quietly run
- A team that's a quarter ahead — every quarter
Built for the people building the Blue Ridge.
Asheville is a city of intentional founders — creatives, makers, hospitality entrepreneurs, and modern remote-first operators. Integrity Accounting is built for the way these businesses actually grow.
From entity formation to first hire to the next round — we build the financial foundation behind the company you're growing and stay with you through every stage.
Studios, practitioners, and wellness businesses building intentional companies. We bring the operational clarity that lets you stay focused on your craft and your clients.
Studios, designers, agencies, and independent creatives. Clean books, smart structure, and a tax plan that protects the work you're proudest of.
From neighborhood favorites to boutique hotels — modern back-office systems, payroll, and margin clarity built for the realities of hospitality.
Smart entity structure, proactive tax planning, and the kind of monthly reporting that makes pricing, hiring, and growth decisions much easier.
Distributed teams, multi-state filings, modern cloud workflows. We meet you wherever your business actually runs — Asheville and beyond.
More than bookkeeping. A real financial operations partner.
We built Integrity Accounting around how modern Asheville businesses actually operate — proactive communication, organized systems, and ongoing strategic guidance that keeps you a step ahead year-round, not just at tax time.
You finally have a partner helping the business move forward strategically — with calm confidence and operational clarity behind every decision.
We bring order to the books and the back office — clean systems, on-time reporting, and a financial picture you can actually trust.
We bring you decisions to make — not surprises to react to. Quarterly check-ins keep you a step ahead of every season.
Secure portals, cloud accounting, digital onboarding. Designed for fast-moving, distributed Asheville teams.
Real answers in days, not weeks. Year-round access — never an empty inbox after April.
We know your business, your goals, and the season it's in. The kind of partner who feels part of the team.
We grow with you — through the next hire, the next location, the next round, the next chapter of the business.
Services framed around clarity, organization, and growth.
Every engagement is built around the result — visibility, calm, and a business that runs the way it's supposed to. Here's what working with Integrity Accounting actually delivers.
Strategic Bookkeeping
Current, accurate books that give you a real-time picture of cash, margin, and where the business actually stands every month.
Virtual Accounting
Cloud-based workflows and secure document sharing — full accounting support without the friction of office visits.
Payroll Services
Streamlined payroll, multi-state compliance, and clean integration with the rest of your financial operations.
CFO Advisory
Monthly reviews, KPI tracking, scenario planning, and strategic guidance that keeps leadership decisions grounded in reality.
Business Formation
S-corp, LLC, partnership — strategic guidance on the entity that fits the business today and the one you're building toward.
Financial Operations Support
We take the back-office complexity off your plate so your team can stay focused on the work and the clients.
Strategic Business Planning
Forecasting, hiring plans, and financial modeling tied to the way your company actually grows quarter to quarter.
Tax Planning & Preparation
Proactive planning that anticipates the bill, finds the savings, and supports long-term growth — federal, state, and entity filings handled cleanly.
Cloud Accounting Systems
Implementation and ongoing support for QuickBooks Online, Xero, Gusto, Bill.com, and the modern stack your business deserves.
Modern financial guidance designed for ambitious businesses building intentional lives.
From our office at 16 Biltmore Avenue, we sit in the middle of one of the most creative, entrepreneurial small cities in the country. Asheville is a place where people come to build the business and the life at the same time — vibrant arts, independent restaurants, boutique wellness brands, modern hospitality, and remote-first founders all rooted in the rhythm of the Blue Ridge.
We're proud to be the financial operations partner for those founders — bringing the kind of strategic clarity that lets ambitious people build sustainable, scalable, and quietly beautiful companies in the mountains.
The kind of partner who actually picks up the phone.
Most founders don't tell us they wanted faster software. They tell us they wanted someone who knew their business well enough to call back the same day with a real answer — and to anticipate the next question before they had to ask.
- Responsive, same-week communication
- Quarterly strategy reviews built around your goals
- Year-round access to your team
- Long-term operational partnership
- Proactive reminders & planning windows
- A team that knows your business by name
Working together feels frictionless, organized, and proactive.
We've built the firm around the experience modern founders actually want — clear deadlines, modern systems, and a team that stays a step ahead so the financial side of the business runs quietly in the background.
- Secure client portals and organized digital onboarding
- Cloud accounting workflows that fit how you already work
- Recurring communication and proactive seasonal reminders
- Quarterly strategy reviews built around your goals
- Virtual support from anywhere — no office visits required
- Year-round access to your team — not just at tax time
A financial operations partner founders actually rely on.
The relationships we've built with Asheville entrepreneurs are the work we're proudest of. Here's what a few of them have to say.
Integrity completely changed how I think about the financial side of my studio. For the first time, I actually understand my numbers — and I have someone proactively in my corner every quarter.
We were a fast-growing hospitality group drowning in spreadsheets. Six months in, the books were clean, payroll was seamless, and we finally had real visibility. They feel like part of the team.
Calm, responsive, and always thinking a quarter ahead. Exactly what a growing creative agency needs — and exactly what we couldn't find anywhere else in town.
A modern firm built around how Asheville entrepreneurs actually work.
Margaret is a Certified Public Accountant and longtime advisor to Asheville entrepreneurs, creatives, and growing businesses — with more than two decades of experience guiding founders through entity formation, tax strategy, and the financial decisions that shape a company's next stage.
Her background spans both corporate finance and hands-on entrepreneurship, giving her a rare ability to translate complex tax and accounting decisions into clear, practical guidance that founders can actually act on.
She built Integrity Accounting to be the kind of financial operations partner she wished modern Blue Ridge business owners had — proactive, organized, responsive, and genuinely invested in the long arc of the business and the life around it.
"Financial clarity should support the life and business you're building — not get in the way of it. That's the whole point of the work we do."
Build a business that feels organized, scalable, and financially clear.
A 30-minute conversation is the simplest way to see if Integrity Accounting is the right financial operations partner for what you're building. Tell us where the business is — we'll tell you honestly how we can help.