About us
Same people, same desk, every year.
Ruth Whitcombe opened the office on Mercer Street in 1998. The radiator still clanks every November.
How it started
The first client was a florist with a shoebox. The second was her brother, who owned the hardware store next door.
Ruth had spent nine years at a large firm watching small business owners get passed from one junior accountant to the next. Nobody remembered their name or their numbers from one April to the following one.
So she kept Whitcombe small. Three accountants, one office and a promise that the person who did your books last year will do them again this year.
The team
Three accountants. You’ll know them all.
Ruth Whitcombe, CPA
Founder
Twenty-eight years of small business tax. Reads every report before it goes out and still answers her own phone.
Owen Pryce, EA
Tax and payroll
Licensed to represent clients before the IRS. Owen handles the letters nobody wants to open.
Lena Ortiz
Bookkeeping lead
Runs the monthly close for every client. If your report lands on the 10th, thank Lena.
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What we believe
Three rules we don’t bend.
I
Plain English
If we can’t explain it in a sentence, we haven’t understood it yet.
II
No surprises
Your price is fixed for a year. If something changes, you hear it from us first.
III
Early, always
We file before the deadline, not on it. Every single time.
Whitcombe Bookkeeping & Tax · 18 Mercer Street, Calder Falls
Come by the office.
18 Mercer Street, the cobalt door. Coffee’s on, and there’s parking out back.