Ashton Bowers partners with owner-led businesses to bring clarity, structure, and strategic counsel to the financial side of how you actually run your company.
Ashton Bowers was founded on a simple observation: owner-led businesses need a senior practitioner who has done the work, knows where the real problems live, and can sit across the table without a script.
That's the practice. Books that close on time. Payroll that runs correctly. HR paperwork and process handled by someone who's done it enough to know what actually matters.
Engagements scoped to fit how you actually operate. Most clients work with us on a defined project basis or a steady monthly retainer — not the hourly meter.
Clean books, kept clean. Every transaction categorized, every account reconciled, and a general ledger that holds up under scrutiny — so month-end isn't a scramble and year-end isn't a cleanup project.
02A real month-end close, not a year-end reconstruction. Accruals booked, subledgers tied out, and a full P&L, balance sheet, and cash-flow package delivered inside ten business days.
03Full-service payroll — biweekly runs, tax deposits, quarterly 941/940s, W-2s and 1099s at year-end, PTO tracking, garnishments, and multi-state withholding for remote teams.
04The people-side of running a business — handbooks, onboarding, benefits administration, PTO policy, terminations, and the everyday questions that come up between them.
How we work. None of it is novel — but together, it's the difference.
You hired a firm because you wanted experience. You'll get it. The person scoping the engagement is the same person doing the work.
We quote the work, not the hour. If scope shifts, you'll hear about it before the meter moves — never after.
Every recommendation comes with the why, in writing. So a year from now, the rationale is still recoverable — by you, by your team, by your successor.
We don't sell investment products, insurance, or any third-party services. The only thing you're buying from us is our judgment.
Most first conversations are a thirty-minute call to get the shape of what you're working on, what's already in place, and whether we're the right fit. No pitch, no scope on the first call.