Los Angeles CPA for E-Commerce & Product Businesses
Online sales create more accounting work than a payout report shows. We help organize channel deposits, refunds, platform fees, inventory, California sales tax, payroll, and business returns into books you can understand and use.
Your deposits are not the same as your sales
Shopify, Amazon, Etsy, Stripe, PayPal, and other platforms can deposit net amounts after fees, refunds, reserves, and marketplace adjustments. Recording only the bank deposit can leave revenue and expenses misstated. Product businesses also need a consistent way to account for inventory and cost of goods sold.
Channel and payment reconciliation
We connect gross sales, discounts, returns, shipping income, processing fees, and deposits back to the books. The goal is a monthly close that agrees with both platform activity and the bank.
Inventory and cost of goods sold
Purchases, freight, landed costs, shrinkage, returns, and ending inventory affect margin and taxable income. We help establish a consistent method based on your records and applicable rules, including the IRS Schedule C inventory guidance for eligible businesses.
California sales-tax reporting
Marketplace and direct-to-consumer sales can be treated differently. We reconcile taxable sales and support California filings using current CDTFA guidance for online retailers. Multistate obligations are identified and scoped separately.
Employees and contractors
Warehouse help, customer support, creators, and fulfillment staff must be recorded and classified correctly. We coordinate payroll and reporting with the EDD employer-registration requirements and current federal guidance.
Accounting support built around product operations
Monthly bookkeeping
Bank and credit-card reconciliation, channel clearing accounts, inventory entries, monthly financial statements, and cleanup when prior periods do not tie out.
Business tax preparation and planning
Federal and California returns coordinated with the books, estimated-payment planning, and a documented review of entity options based on your actual facts.
Entity and compliance support
Formation, S-corporation election support when appropriate, compliance calendars, and coordination of payroll and sales-tax accounts.
Management reporting
Gross margin, channel-level activity, inventory movement, advertising spend, and cash-flow views using the information your systems can reliably provide.
Official resources we use when the facts apply
Tax treatment depends on what you sell, where inventory is held, where customers receive products, and how workers are engaged. We verify material conclusions against current guidance rather than relying on a generic checklist.
Businesses this page is designed for
- Shopify and WooCommerce stores
- Amazon and marketplace sellers
- Consumer-product brands
- Subscription-box businesses
- Wholesale and direct-to-consumer brands
- Multi-channel product companies