GreenGrowth CPAs · Serving Santa Monica
Santa Monica CPA for Businesses and Individuals
GreenGrowth CPAs delivers tax preparation, bookkeeping, audit, and CFO services to Santa Monica businesses, owners, and individuals, from Main Street shops to Silicon Beach startups. The Los Angeles office sits minutes away in Century City. Since 2016, more than 1,500 clients have worked with the firm. AICPA member. PCAOB registered.
Get Started See What We DoGreenGrowth CPAs is a Santa Monica CPA practice serving small businesses, startups, agencies, e-commerce and wellness brands, cannabis operators, professional services firms, and individuals across the Westside. The nearest office is the firm's Los Angeles location at 10250 Constellation Boulevard in Century City, minutes from Santa Monica, and most engagements run remotely on shared systems.
Westside clients bring a wide range of needs: business and individual tax returns, monthly bookkeeping, and multi-state filings. Silicon Beach companies add Section 174A research expensing, R&D credits, and the SOC 2 reports enterprise customers demand. Each one rewards a specialist and punishes a generalist.
GreenGrowth CPAs holds PCAOB registration under Firm ID 6580 and registration with the California Board of Accountancy. Call (800) 674-9050 or start online, and we will route you to the right practice lead.
What We Do
Tax, Audit, and CFO Services in Santa Monica
Most Santa Monica clients come to us for one of three reasons: a tax return or position that needs planning, a report a lender, customer, or investor demands, or books that need a real finance team. As a full-service Santa Monica CPA practice, GreenGrowth covers all three with a dedicated lead for each line.
Tax Planning and Compliance
Business and individual tax preparation, year-round planning, and multi-state filings, plus Section 174A expensing and R&D credits for companies building product. Positions get modeled before year end, when timing still moves the number.
Explore tax planningAudit and Assurance
SOC 1 and SOC 2 reports for companies selling into the enterprise, plus financial statement audits and reviews under PCAOB registration. If a review satisfies your investor or lender, we say so before you pay for an audit.
Explore audit servicesAccounting and Outsourced CFO
Monthly bookkeeping, close, reporting, and CFO leadership without the full-time hire. Books built so your numbers hold up at tax time, in a loan application, or in front of investors.
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What GreenGrowth CPAs Brings to Santa Monica
Tax for Every Stage
Individual returns, small business filings, and startup work like Section 174A and R&D credits, all under one roof.
SOC 1 and SOC 2
Service organization reports that unblock enterprise deals, from readiness through Type II.
PCAOB Registration
Firm ID 6580, which covers companies heading toward a listing without changing firms mid-process.
California Registration
Registered with the California Board of Accountancy, with the Los Angeles office minutes from Santa Monica.
One Firm, Three Lines
Tax, audit, and CFO teams that share context instead of re-learning your business at your cost.
Serving 50 States
Clients served nationwide from eight offices, so expansion never means changing firms.
Every registration above is public. Verify PCAOB Firm ID 6580 at pcaobus.org, and each registration with the body that issued it.
Coverage
Westside Clients, Century City Minutes Away
How We Serve Santa Monica
Engagements run remotely on your systems, with in-person working sessions at the Los Angeles office in Century City, minutes up Santa Monica Boulevard. No Santa Monica storefront, and no pretending otherwise.
Who We Work With
Small businesses, restaurants and retail, startups, agencies, e-commerce and wellness brands, cannabis operators, professional services firms, and individuals and families with tax returns to file.
Beyond the Westside
The firm serves clients in all 50 states from eight offices, so a Santa Monica company expanding into new markets keeps the same team as it grows.
Prefer to start remotely? Most engagements do. The Century City office is there when a working session beats a call.
Get a Specialist on Your Numbers
Bring your last return, your cap table questions, or your latest financials. The first conversation is free and usually tells you what the engagement should look like.
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Serving Businesses Across the Westside
Silicon Beach does not stop at the city line, and neither does the work. We serve companies across the whole Westside cluster.
Common Situations
Who Comes to Us From Santa Monica
Five situations bring most new Westside clients through the door. Each maps to a dedicated team inside the firm, so nobody starts by explaining their business to a generalist.
| The situation | Who it hits | What we do |
|---|---|---|
| Outgrowing tax software and do-it-yourself bookkeeping | Main Street businesses, restaurants, retail, and service firms | Monthly bookkeeping plus business and owner returns prepared by the same team. |
| Development costs were capitalized and never recovered | Startups and software companies that built product through 2022 to 2024 | Section 174A recovery elections, R&D credit modeling, and quarterly estimate resets. |
| Enterprise customers demand a SOC 2 report before signing | SaaS and services companies moving upmarket | Readiness assessment, then SOC 2 Type I and Type II, timed so the report lands before the deal stalls. |
| Investor reporting the current books cannot produce | Funded companies between raises | Outsourced CFO support: monthly close, runway modeling, and board-ready reporting. |
| Founder income spread across equity, entities, and states | Founders, partners, and owners on the Westside | Coordinated personal and entity tax planning, so no return gets filed in isolation. |
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Technology and Startups
Section 174A, R&D credits, ASC 606 subscription revenue, and equity compensation for companies building product.
Explore technologyIndividual Tax
Personal returns and planning for Westside residents, owners, and families, coordinated with any business returns.
Explore individual taxHigh Net Worth Individuals
Coordinated planning for founders and owners whose income crosses entities, states, and equity positions.
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Startup CPA and CFO Support in Santa Monica
Founders look for a startup CPA in Santa Monica when the questions outgrow the bookkeeper: how to recover capitalized development costs, whether the R&D credit can offset payroll tax before profitability, or what the books need to look like before a raise.
Advisory engagements cover Section 174A elections, credit studies, cap table and equity compensation questions, and fractional CFO support that turns the close into investor-ready reporting.
One conversation scopes it. Schedule a free consultation and bring the numbers you are working with.
One Team for the Return, the Books, and What Comes Next
Whether you run a Main Street shop, a Silicon Beach startup, or just need your own return done right, the same specialists handle the tax, the books, and the planning.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Our Santa Monica CPA Services
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Does GreenGrowth CPAs have an office in Santa Monica?
No. The nearest office is the firm's Los Angeles location at 10250 Constellation Boulevard in Century City, minutes from Santa Monica. Most engagements run remotely, with working sessions at that office when meeting in person helps.
How do meetings work for Westside clients?
Day-to-day work runs on shared systems and scheduled calls. When a planning session, audit kickoff, or closing benefits from a room, it happens at the Century City office, a short drive up Santa Monica Boulevard.
What kinds of Santa Monica businesses does the firm serve?
Small businesses, restaurants and retail, startups, agencies, e-commerce and wellness brands, cannabis operators, professional services firms, and individuals across the Westside.
Tax and reporting
Can we deduct our software development costs again?
Yes, for domestic development. IRC Section 174A restored immediate expensing of domestic research costs for tax years beginning after December 31, 2024, and companies can also recover what they capitalized across 2022 to 2024. Foreign development still amortizes over fifteen years.
When does a startup need a SOC 2 report?
Usually when enterprise procurement starts asking for one. Type I assesses control design at a point in time, while Type II tests operation across an observation period of several months, so starting late can cost a sales quarter.
Does GreenGrowth CPAs prepare individual tax returns?
Yes. Individual returns are prepared alongside business returns, which matters most for owners whose income flows through partnerships, S corporations, or equity. Coordinating both keeps a decision on one return from creating a surprise on the other.
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Is GreenGrowth CPAs registered with the PCAOB?
Yes. GreenGrowth CPAs is registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board under Firm ID 6580. That registration covers companies heading toward a listing, so the work stays with one firm rather than transferring mid-process.
Can GreenGrowth CPAs handle both our bookkeeping and our audit?
Under SEC and PCAOB standards, no, because those rules prohibit auditing statements the firm helped produce. In a private company audit driven by a lender, investor, or board, the AICPA framework often permits both, provided management takes responsibility for the records and safeguards are documented. We establish which combination your situation permits at the outset.
How do I get started?
Start online at the Get Started page or call (800) 674-9050. Tell us the deadline or decision you are working against, and our Santa Monica CPA team will route you to the right practice lead.
Across the Firm
GreenGrowth CPAs Across Industries and States
Santa Monica work runs across the whole firm. Residents and owners start at individual tax services, and licensed operators at the cannabis accounting hub. Companies building product start at the technology page, which covers Section 174A and the R&D credit in depth, and companies selling into the enterprise start at SOC audit services. Founders with multi-entity income start at high net worth services, growing companies can add outsourced CFO support, and businesses closer to Century City can start at our Los Angeles office page. Anyone comparing firms can start with who we are. Wherever you enter, the same Santa Monica CPA team sits behind the page.
Work With a CPA Firm Minutes Away, Built for What You Build
Tell us the deadline, the report, or the decision in front of you. We will tell you what the engagement should look like and who inside the firm will run it.
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