Defiance, East 2nd Street, a CPA practice five decades on

A certified public accountant in Defiance who picks up the phone.

Terry A Jenkins CPA has been on East 2nd Street in Defiance for decades, preparing tax returns and keeping the books for families and small businesses around Defiance County. A CPA credential and a local office in the same sentence is rarer than it used to be. If you would rather ask a question and get an answer than work through a phone tree, this is that kind of office.

Request an appointment Call (419) 782-9760

What we do

Tax returns, accounting and bookkeeping for people and small businesses.

Most of the work here is straightforward and that is on purpose. Individual returns, business returns, monthly books, and the questions that come up in between. If your situation is simple we keep it simple. If it is complicated, you get an explanation in plain English rather than a lecture on the tax code.

Individual Tax Returns

Federal, Ohio, school district and municipal returns prepared and filed. W2 income, retirement distributions, Social Security, investments, rental property and the credits people most often overlook. Bring what you have and we will tell you what is missing.

Small Business Returns

Schedule C sole proprietors, LLCs, partnerships and S corporations. The return itself plus the questions behind it, like what is actually deductible, how to handle the vehicle, and whether the way your business is set up still fits what you are earning.

Accounting Services

Financial statements, account reconciliation, depreciation schedules and the year end work that a bank or a lender will want to see. Numbers you can hand across a desk without having to apologize for how they were put together.

Bookkeeping

Monthly or quarterly books kept current so you know where the business stands during the year instead of finding out in April. Categorized expenses, reconciliations and reports, which also means tax season is not a shoebox and a lost weekend.

Payroll and Filings

Payroll, withholding, deposits and the quarterly filings that go with having employees. If you are hiring your first person and the paperwork looks like a wall, that is a completely normal place to start and we will walk it through with you.

IRS and Ohio Notices

A letter from the IRS or the Ohio Department of Taxation is usually much less serious than it looks, often a matching issue or a math correction. Bring it in and we will read it, tell you what it actually says, and handle the response.

The practice

Defiance County clients, and a lot of them for a very long time.

Defiance, Ayersville, Jewell, Okolona, Sherwood, Ney, Hicksville, Napoleon and the farms and small shops in between. Some of these clients have been coming to this office since before their kids were born, and now those kids bring their own returns in. That is the only measure of this work that really counts.

Every return reviewed before it is filed

Individual and business returns, prepared here

Bring what you have, we will sort it out

Books kept current, not rebuilt every spring

Electronic filing, with your copies to keep

Financial statements a lender will accept

Questions answered by the person who did the work

How it works

How working with this office goes.

Call and get on the schedule

(419) 782-9760. Tell us roughly what you have, a W2 return, a business, a rental, a notice you are worried about, and we will set a time that works around your day.

Bring your documents

W2s, 1099s, mortgage interest, tuition, business records, and last year's return if you have a copy. If you are not sure whether something matters, bring it anyway. Sorting that out is our job, not yours.

We prepare it and go through it with you

You see the return before it is filed. We will walk through what changed from last year, anything unusual, and anything worth doing differently before next December rather than after.

We file it and you keep the copies

Electronic filing, your copies, and a plain explanation of what you owe or what is coming back and roughly when. If a notice arrives later, you call this office, not a hotline.

About us

A small CPA office on East 2nd Street, run the old way on purpose.

Terry A Jenkins CPA is an accounting and tax practice at 912 East 2nd Street in Defiance, listed as fifty years in business, offering certified public accounting, accounting services, bookkeeping and tax return preparation. It is a small office and that is the whole appeal. At a seasonal chain you get whoever is on shift that week, and next year you get somebody else who has never seen your file. Here you deal with the accountant directly, the same one who remembers that you sold the rental a few years back and that your daughter started college last fall. Big enough to handle a real small business, small enough that you can call and get an answer the same day.

📊Certified public accountant, not a seasonal storefront

📊Individual, sole proprietor, LLC, partnership and S corp returns

📊Accounting, financial statements and reconciliations

📊Monthly and quarterly bookkeeping

📊Payroll and quarterly filings

📊IRS and Ohio Department of Taxation notices handled for clients

Hours

Monday9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Tuesday9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Wednesday9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Thursday9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Friday9:00 am to 5:00 pm

SaturdayBy appointment in tax season

SundayClosed

The office is open Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, with Saturday appointments available during tax season. Sundays we are closed. From February on the calendar fills up quickly, so call (419) 782-9760 and get a time on the books early.

Find us

912 E 2nd St, Defiance, OH 43512

We are at 912 East 2nd Street in Defiance, an easy drive from Ayersville, Jewell, Okolona, Sherwood, Ney, Hicksville and Napoleon. Appointments are by arrangement so you are not sitting in a waiting room. Call (419) 782-9760 and we will find you a time.

(419) 782-9760

Get in touch

Get your appointment on the calendar.

Tell us what kind of return you have and anything that changed this year, a new business, a house, a rental, a retirement, a letter from the IRS. We will tell you what to bring and roughly what it will cost before you commit to anything.