Bowen Accounting

Small business tax and accounting in Bakersfield

Bowen Accounting is a tax and accounting practice in Bakersfield, California, run by a CPA. It has served businesses and individuals across the greater Bakersfield area since 1999, and its practice areas are small business bookkeeping and personal finances. The practice offers tax preparation for individuals and businesses, plus ongoing ledger work for nearby companies.

Business entity formation for contractors

The practice helps clients form a corporation, an S corporation, an LLC or a partnership. The practice explains that recent tax law changes often require contractors to form a business entity so that they are not treated as employees, and that owners may also want an entity for liability protection and tax benefits. It says it can advise on those choices and on requirements that other companies set.

The tax process, forms and online tools

The practice uses a tax organizer to collect each year's information before an appointment, and it says even a simple return needs certain questions answered because of changes in a client's circumstances and in tax law. Clients who want a copy of the current organizer can ask for one by email, and the practice keeps its signature forms and worksheets updated for each tax year. Its website lists online ways to pay the IRS and the state Franchise Tax Board, to check refund status and to find mailing addresses, along with forms, worksheets and transcript orders.

Recognition and consulting

According to the firm, local voters chose it in an online readers' poll for CPA services in 2020 and again from 2022 through 2025, with no entry in 2021. It also says it was quoted in a BankRate article about whether to pay off a mortgage early. Management consulting also runs under a second name, Course Correction Management Consulting, which the practice lists alongside its tax work.