Best Accounting Firms in Los Angeles in 2026

Twelve accounting firms with a verified City of Los Angeles address. What each one charges. The eight we cut, and why.

Accounting Updated Aug 2026 How we rank

Last updated August 30, 2026

Quick answer

HCVT leads this ranking of the best accounting firms in Los Angeles, on the strength of its family office practice. GHJ is the better choice for nonprofits and entertainment royalty audits. Armanino publishes the only price here, at $18,487 a year. Eight firms that rank for this search failed the address test.

Key takeaways

HCVT is the largest Los Angeles based firm on this list. It reports more than 800 team members and over 100 partners.
Armanino publishes the only price on this list. Its startup bundle runs $18,487 or $26,887 a year.
Miller Kaplan prints the heading "Los Angeles" above a Burbank address on its own locations page.
Five of the twelve firms carry an SEC or PCAOB finding. Each one is named inside that firm's entry.
Kruze Consulting and Propeller Industries rank for Los Angeles searches without a Los Angeles office.

Search for the best accounting firms in Los Angeles and the results quietly mix three different things. Firms inside the city sit beside firms in Burbank and Beverly Hills, and independent partnerships sit beside firms owned by buyout funds. Clean records sit beside records the firm itself never publishes. This ranking checked all three, one locations page and one regulator filing at a time. Eight well known names did not survive it.

Best accounting firms in Los Angeles at a glance

Rank	Name	Best for	Los Angeles location	Starting price
#1	HCVT Top pick	High net worth families, family offices and closely held companies that want the largest Los Angeles based firm.	West Los Angeles and Encino	Not published. HCVT publishes no fee, rate or range on its services or contact pages.
#2	GHJ	Nonprofits, and entertainment companies that need royalty and profit participation audits.	Downtown Los Angeles	Not published. GHJ publishes no fee or range on any page.
#3	Armanino	Funded startups that want to know the annual cost before the first call.	Downtown, Century City, Woodland Hills	$18,487 a year for the Launch tier and $26,887 a year for the Scale tier. Both require a one year contract. The Tailored tier is quoted on request.
#4	SingerLewak	Mid market and venture backed companies working toward an audit committee or an IPO.	Westwood and Woodland Hills	Not published. SingerLewak publishes no fee or range on any page.
#5	NKSFB	Recording artists, actors and athletes who need business management rather than tax filing alone.	Westwood and Encino	Not published. NKSFB publishes no fee or range on any page.
#6	MGO	Government agencies, cannabis operators and other clients in heavily regulated sectors.	Century City	Not published. MGO publishes no fee or range on any page.
#7	Windes	Companies that need an employee benefit plan audit from a dedicated practice rather than an add-on.	Downtown Los Angeles	Not published. Windes publishes no fee or range on any page.
#8	DK CPA	Multigenerational families and closely held businesses in the San Fernando Valley.	Woodland Hills	Not published. DK CPA tiers four service levels on its accounting page and prices none of them.
#9	Gursey Schneider	Entertainment and sports clients facing a divorce, a partnership dispute or a valuation.	Century City and Encino	Not published. The site's Payment Portal is a bill pay link rather than a pricing page.
#10	CohnReznick	Companies that need a national firm with a real Los Angeles office attached.	Downtown and Woodland Hills	Not published. CohnReznick publishes no fee or range on any page.
#11	Rose Snyder & Jacobs	Entrepreneurs and family owned businesses that want one office and a named partner.	Encino	Not published. Rose Snyder & Jacobs publishes no fee or range on any page.
#12	Grobstein Teeple	Receiverships, insolvency work and disputes that need a court ready accountant.	Woodland Hills	Not published. Grobstein Teeple publishes no fee or range on any page.

HCVT

Not published. HCVT publishes no fee, rate or range on its services or contact pages.

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Best for High net worth families, family offices and closely held companies that want the largest Los Angeles based firm.

HCVT is first here because it is the biggest accounting firm actually headquartered in Los Angeles, and because family office work is a department rather than a service page. In its own partner announcement of 5 January 2026, the firm called itself "the largest, Los Angeles-based public accounting firm and the 31st largest firm nationally." Behind that claim sit more than 800 team members and over 100 partners.

Pros

The West Los Angeles and Encino offices cover both the Westside and the Valley, so a client on either side keeps the same partner.
HCVT publishes both a headcount and a partner count, which makes its size checkable rather than claimed. Four firms on this list publish neither.
Media and Entertainment sits alongside private wealth as a named industry, so a talent client keeps the business and personal work in one place.
The firm posted a tax alert on 11 August 2026, which means the technical content is current rather than archived.

Cons

The 2018 SEC order appears nowhere on hcvt.com, so you only find it if you go looking at the SEC yourself.
Its January 2026 release claims fourteen offices while the locations page lists sixteen, and nobody has reconciled the two.
The West Los Angeles office has no working page of its own, because three likely URLs all return 404.
Its only Instagram account is a recruiting account, so there is no firm feed to judge the culture from.

GHJ

Not published. GHJ publishes no fee or range on any page.

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Best for Nonprofits, and entertainment companies that need royalty and profit participation audits.

GHJ earns second place on one practice that almost nobody else in Los Angeles runs. Profit Participation Services audits royalty and participation statements, which is the work you need when a studio says your film earned one number and your own books say another. Beside it sits a nonprofit team working on arts organisations, clinics and private foundations all year.

Pros

The Flower Street office is the headquarters rather than a satellite, so decisions get made in Los Angeles.
Royalty and participation auditing is a real specialism, and no other firm on this list publishes one.
International Desks for China, Germany and India give a mid sized firm a referral route that usually belongs to much larger ones.
The fractional CFO team arrived by merger rather than by hiring, so it started with a working client base rather than an empty desk.

Cons

The news index is broken across three separate URLs, so you cannot see what the firm has published lately.
No founding year appears on the About page at all, and the 1953 date survives only inside press release boilerplate.
Its Buffalo office is labelled "New York" on the contact page, which most readers will take to mean New York City.
Three versions of the firm name circulate across one website, which makes the brand harder to verify than it should be.

Armanino

$18,487 a year for the Launch tier and $26,887 a year for the Scale tier. Both require a one year contract. The Tailored tier is quoted on request.

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Best for Funded startups that want to know the annual cost before the first call.

Armanino is third because it is the only firm on this page that names a price before you speak to anyone. Its Startup Tax and Bookkeeping Bundle lists three tiers, Launch, Scale and Tailored, with a real number on the first two.

Pros

Three offices sit inside the City of Los Angeles, which is more than any other firm on this list can claim.
A published annual figure lets a founder build a budget without booking a sales call first.
The firm names a Southern California regional leader, so the Los Angeles relationship has someone accountable for it.
With 2,500 or more employees it has the deepest bench here, which matters when a round closes and the work triples overnight.

Cons

Four deficiencies out of four audits reviewed is the worst inspection result of any firm ranked here.
The bundle assumes a Delaware C corporation, so a company with a different structure lands in the unpriced Tailored tier.
Neither a founding year nor a footer year appears anywhere on the site, which is odd for a firm this size.
Attest work, meaning audits and reviews that outsiders rely on, sits in a different legal entity from advisory. Only one of the two is a licensed CPA firm.

SingerLewak

Not published. SingerLewak publishes no fee or range on any page.

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Best for Mid market and venture backed companies working toward an audit committee or an IPO.

SingerLewak suits you once your company is big enough to have a board asking audit questions. The firm has operated since 1959 and now reports 450 or more employees across nine states, with 80 or more partners and directors.

Pros

A podcast episode dated 20 August 2026 makes this the most recently updated site of any firm here.
Two Los Angeles offices cover the Westside and the Valley, so a client is not forced to travel across the city.
Both a partner count and a headcount are published, which lets you compare its size against firms that publish neither.
No SEC or PCAOB action was found against the firm in either regulator's public record.

Cons

Acquired practices keep their old names as divisions, so the SingerLewak headcount understates the real footprint.
Addresses print as a street and a zip, with the city only in the heading above, so a copied address arrives incomplete.
The contact hub carries no addresses and no social links, which forces a visitor into a second page before they can call.
No alliance or independence statement exists on the site, so a buyer cannot tell who ultimately owns the firm.

NKSFB

Not published. NKSFB publishes no fee or range on any page.

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Best for Recording artists, actors and athletes who need business management rather than tax filing alone.

NKSFB is where you go if your income arrives from tours, royalties and appearance fees rather than a payroll. It runs the deepest entertainment business management practice with a Los Angeles address, and the structure proves it. Recording Artist Services, Touring Services and Athlete Services are three separate practices. A tour settlement therefore lands with people who already know how tours settle.

Pros

Touring and recording run as their own service lines, so a client never has to explain how money moves on the road.
A London office alongside the Los Angeles ones suits an artist whose touring income arrives in two currencies.
Mickey Segal, a founding partner from 1981, still runs the firm as Founding and Managing Partner.
No SEC or PCAOB action was found against the firm in either regulator's public record.

Cons

The company page says 53 partners while the firm's own directory lists 60, and neither figure has been corrected.
The footer carries no copyright year at all, so there is no signal of when the site was last maintained.
Estate and trust work is not published as a service line, despite a client base that plainly needs it.
Accounting and non-accounting work sit in two legal entities, and the footer states that split without explaining it.

MGO

Not published. MGO publishes no fee or range on any page.

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Best for Government agencies, cannabis operators and other clients in heavily regulated sectors.

MGO is the firm to call when your industry has a regulator attached to it. Two of its practices rarely appear together anywhere else in Los Angeles. One is state and local government work. The other is a cannabis practice guiding medical operators through federal rescheduling. Neither is something a general tax firm picks up in a quarter.

Pros

Public sector audit work carries a real barrier to entry, and MGO publishes more of it than anyone else here.
Two offices in India give the firm an offshore delivery option that firms of this size rarely have.
A full executive team is published, including named chief officers for quality, risk and innovation.
PCAOB inspection reports exist for both 2022 and 2024 with no enforcement action attached to either.

Cons

Four months without a news item is the slowest publishing cadence of any firm ranked here.
The contact page carries no addresses, so a visitor choosing between 13 offices must find a second page first.
BDO Alliance membership appears only in the footer, with no independence statement anywhere on the site.
The LinkedIn URL contains raw ampersands and an apostrophe, which breaks the link in some contexts.

Windes

Not published. Windes publishes no fee or range on any page.

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Best for Companies that need an employee benefit plan audit from a dedicated practice rather than an add-on.

Windes is the answer to a narrow question: who audits our 401(k) plan. Employee Benefit Services is one of its four partner in charge practices, alongside Audit and Assurance, Tax and Advisory. A standalone benefit plan team with its own partner is rare at this size. It matters because a botched plan audit costs a sponsor far more than the fee it saved.

Pros

The benefit practice is led by a partner holding the ERPA credential, which licenses someone to represent a plan before the IRS, and that is unusual outside the largest firms.
A delivery centre in Clark Global City, in the Philippines, gives Windes capacity that most firms this size rent from contractors.
A news release dated 11 August 2026 shows the site is actively maintained rather than left to run.
No SEC or PCAOB action was found against the firm in either regulator's public record.

Cons

Los Angeles is a satellite rather than the base, so the partners on your engagement may work out of Long Beach.
The Los Angeles address prints as "515 Flower Street" with no directional, which is an incomplete address downtown.
No total headcount appears anywhere, so you can only count the 24 partners, principals and directors on the leadership page.
A July 2026 release headlined as Southern California expansion actually describes an Orange County addition.

DK CPA

Not published. DK CPA tiers four service levels on its accounting page and prices none of them.

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Best for Multigenerational families and closely held businesses in the San Fernando Valley.

DK CPA fits a family that owns things rather than a company that sells things. It describes "outsourced accounting and financial coordination for high-net-worth families and multigenerational estates." The firm says it has run that service for more than 30 years, long enough to have carried clients through a generational handover.

Pros

Three articles published on 26 August 2026 make this the most active publishing schedule on the list.
PrimeGlobal membership gives a Valley client an international referral route without leaving the firm.
A separate wealth management arm means investment and tax advice can sit under one roof rather than two.
No SEC or PCAOB action was found against the firm in either regulator's public record.

Cons

The old domain still redirects and the footer still carries the old name, so the rebrand is only half finished.
Only one of its four offices sits inside the City of Los Angeles. The others are Beverly Hills, Irvine and San Diego.
A dedicated Beverly Hills landing page suggests the client base sits mostly outside the city limits.
Startup and venture backed work goes unmentioned across the whole site, so founders should look elsewhere.

Gursey Schneider

Not published. The site's Payment Portal is a bill pay link rather than a pricing page.

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Best for Entertainment and sports clients facing a divorce, a partnership dispute or a valuation.

Gursey Schneider is the firm you want when the money is about to be argued over. Business Management handles the day to day finances for entertainment and sports clients. Litigation Support and Business Valuation take over once those finances are contested. Because both live under one roof, the forensic team already knows your books when a case opens.

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The firm has operated since 1979, and names its clients plainly. They are "the most prestigious professionals in the entertainment and sports industries as well as other high net-worth individuals," in its own words. Client Accounting Services and Tax and Accounting sit alongside, so routine compliance need not move elsewhere.

The footer reads "© 2018 GURSEY | SCHNEIDER LLP" on the same template as an article published on 25 August 2026, eight years out of date. The people directory is worse, because a default load returns "Your search has returned no results. Please try again," so the roster never appears at all. You therefore cannot check who would work on your case without asking.

Founded: 1979
Headquarters: 2121 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1300, Los Angeles, CA 90067. A second Los Angeles office sits at 16633 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 1320, Encino.

Pros

Litigation support and business management under one roof saves the cost of briefing a forensic accountant from scratch.
Alternative Asset Management is a named expertise area, which suits a client holding fund interests rather than salary.
Stephan H. Wasserman is published as Managing Partner, so the firm has a named point of accountability.
No SEC or PCAOB action was found against the firm in either regulator's public record.

Cons

An eight year old copyright line on a live site is the clearest maintenance failure in this ranking.
No headcount or partner count is published, and the directory that would show one does not load.
Estate and trust planning is not published as a service, despite a client profile that calls for it.
Family office is not a named service line either, so wealth coordination has to be raised directly.

#10

CohnReznick

Not published. CohnReznick publishes no fee or range on any page.

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Best for Companies that need a national firm with a real Los Angeles office attached.

CohnReznick is the pick when your problem is geography rather than specialism. It works across 30 industries from a Wilshire Boulevard office downtown, plus a second Los Angeles office in Woodland Hills. A company operating in several states can therefore keep one firm instead of three.

Pros

An article published on 29 August 2026 makes this the freshest dated content collected for this ranking.
Two Los Angeles offices cover downtown and the Valley, so a multi site client keeps one relationship.
The 2025 PCAOB inspection found deficiencies in two of four audits, a better result than Armanino's four of four.
The Apax investment appears on the firm's own site, which is more than Armanino's investor can say.

Cons

Three regulator findings across the SEC and the PCAOB is more than any other firm here carries.
Neither a founding year nor a headcount appears anywhere on the site, which is unusual at this size.
The attest and advisory split means the entity signing your engagement letter may not be a licensed CPA firm.
Third parties often list its El Segundo office as a Los Angeles location, and El Segundo is a separate city.

#11

Rose Snyder & Jacobs

Not published. Rose Snyder & Jacobs publishes no fee or range on any page.

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Best for Entrepreneurs and family owned businesses that want one office and a named partner.

Rose Snyder & Jacobs is the choice if you would rather know your accountant than know their brand. It has run from a single Encino office since 1976, its homepage marks a 50th anniversary in 2026, and nine partners are named, so nobody hands your file to another city.

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Its homepage sorts clients into four groups. Those are public companies, entrepreneurs and family owned businesses, high net worth families, and a fourth covering real estate, biotech, technology and nonprofits. The business offer is strategic tax planning, cash flow insight and business succession planning. Family Wealth Services covers trust and estate planning, plus passing assets between generations.

The PCAOB reviewed the firm's 2023 audits in report 104-2024-172, issued on 24 October 2024, and found deficiencies in both of the two audits it examined. Two out of two is a poor result even on a sample that small. It matters only if you are buying an audit, so ask about it then and not before.

Founded: 1976
Headquarters: 15821 Ventura Boulevard, #490, Encino, CA 91436
Founders: Tony Rose, Greg Snyder and Jake Jacobs

Pros

All three founding partners are still listed on the team page, which is rare for a firm at 50 years.
Mergers and acquisitions and international tax are separate named services, giving wide coverage for a firm this size.
The firm links a Yelp profile from its own site, so its public reviews are easy to find and check.
A single office means no internal handoffs between locations when a question crosses service lines.

Cons

Deficiencies in two of two audits reviewed is a poor inspection result, even on a small sample.
The blog runs syndicated tax content rather than firm writing, so the posting rate overstates what the firm actually produces.
No managing partner or chief executive title is published, leaving no obvious person to escalate to.
No total headcount appears anywhere, only the partner and director names.

#12

Grobstein Teeple

Not published. Grobstein Teeple publishes no fee or range on any page.

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Best for Receiverships, insolvency work and disputes that need a court ready accountant.

Grobstein Teeple is built for the moment a business stops working normally. Its named practices are Restructuring and Insolvency, Litigation Support and Forensic Accounting, Independent Fiduciary, E-discovery and Cybersecurity. Howard Grobstein works as a receiver and trustee, meaning a court appoints him to run or wind down a company. The firm also publishes explainers on how a receivership works. No general tax practice produces content like that.

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Founded in 2013, it is the youngest firm on this list. Six partners and four principals are named, and the firm joined the Alliott Global Alliance on 1 July 2025.

Read the office list closely before you judge its reach. Seven locations are published and four carry the label "(mail only)," so the real footprint is three California offices. Woodland Hills is the base.

Founded: 2013
Headquarters: 6300 Canoga Avenue, Suite 1500W, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Founders: Howard Grobstein and Josh Teeple

Pros

Independent fiduciary and e-discovery are published services that almost no accounting firm offers at all.
A cybersecurity practice inside a CPA firm is unusual, and useful when a forensic job means recovering devices.
Both founders are named with titles and both still run the firm, so the expertise has not walked out.
No SEC or PCAOB action was found against the firm in either regulator's public record.

Cons

The site publishes no client type at all, so a buyer cannot tell whether the firm wants their work.
Startup and entrepreneur positioning on the site belongs to an affiliate firm rather than to Grobstein Teeple.
The Phoenix office lists a Tempe street address with a Las Vegas zip code, a copy and paste error nobody caught.
Its own alliance announcement misspells the firm name as Gropstein Teeple.

Which firm fits which buyer?

The right Los Angeles CPA firm depends on who you are before it depends on size or price, so the twelve split cleanly into three groups.

Small and owner managed businesses are best served by DK CPA and Rose Snyder & Jacobs. Both build around closely held companies and the families behind them. Grobstein Teeple is the one to call when the problem is a dispute rather than a return. GHJ is the strongest option for a nonprofit, because its audit team works on arts organisations and foundations all year.

Startups and funded companies should start with Armanino, since a published price matters most when nobody can afford a surprise. SingerLewak takes over later, once a board acquires an audit committee and IPO readiness becomes the job. MGO handles public and private companies inside one practice, which suits a company expecting to cross that line.

High net worth families and talent get the widest choice. HCVT names family offices as a core client type and runs the largest Los Angeles based practice. NKSFB has the touring and recording infrastructure a working artist needs. Gursey Schneider is the firm to call once a valuation or a divorce is involved.

What do accounting firms in Los Angeles charge?

Eleven of the twelve publish no price at all, which makes Armanino the only firm you can budget against before a sales call.

Its startup bundle runs $18,487 a year at the Launch tier and $26,887 at the Scale tier, both on a one year contract. The gap between them buys headroom rather than capability, since both cover the same bookkeeping, tax compliance and R&D credit work. Launch stops at 50 transactions and entities under $250,000 of net taxable income. Scale stops at 100 transactions and entities under $10 million in assets.

Everyone else quotes on request, which is normal for professional services rather than evasive. The only real comparison is to put identical scope in front of three firms, then read the fee letters side by side.

Which firms are actually in the City of Los Angeles?

Four well known firms label an office with a city they do not sit in. Every entry in this ranking was therefore checked against the firm's own locations page.

Miller Kaplan prints the heading "LOS ANGELES" above the address 3900 W. Alameda Avenue, Suite 2400, Burbank. The same address appears on its locations page, its contact page and its managing partner's biography. The firm labels a Hailey, Idaho office "Sun Valley" by the same logic.

Prager Metis publishes three California offices, in El Segundo, Torrance and San Jose, none of them inside the city. A firm release from 2015 celebrates 50 years in Los Angeles, but no Los Angeles address appears on the site today.

Velin & Associates owns the domain losangelescpa.org while working from West Hollywood. Clear Peak Accounting publishes a "Top CPA Firms in Los Angeles" list and ranks itself on it, from an office in Santa Monica.

A postal address is not a city, and that matters more here than in most metros. Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Culver City, Burbank and Glendale each have their own council and their own business tax. A firm in any of them is not a Los Angeles firm in any sense a city clerk would recognise.

Which firms are owned by private equity?

Three of the twelve are not independent, and only two of them admit it on their own site.

CohnReznick announced a "strategic growth investment" from the Apax Funds on 26 February 2025. The same release split the firm into a licensed CPA entity and an unlicensed advisory entity. Armanino appears on Further Global Capital Management's portfolio page with the year 2024, though its own press release index stops in January 2023. NKSFB joined Focus Financial Partners in 2018, and its history page still describes Focus as "NASDAQ: FOCS," which stopped being true when Focus went private.

Ownership is not a verdict on the work. It changes who the firm answers to, how fast it is expected to grow, and what happens to your partner after the next transaction. That is why it belongs in the first conversation rather than the fourth.

What do the SEC and PCAOB records show?

Five of the twelve firms carry a finding from a federal regulator, and none of them mentions it on their own website.

The SEC censured HCVT and fined it $300,000 on 13 September 2018. The independence violations spanned 57 private fund audits and six broker dealer audits, and the order barred the firm from certain audit work for a year.

The SEC ordered CohnReznick to return $1.9 million to investors on 8 June 2022, over the Longfin and Sequential audits. The PCAOB then censured the firm and fined it $20,000 on 11 July 2023, for filing required disclosures about five months late.

Inspections tell a quieter story than fines do. The PCAOB found deficiencies in four of four Armanino audits it reviewed, in a report issued on 21 November 2024. It found the same in two of two Rose Snyder & Jacobs audits, on 24 October 2024. A deficiency is not a fine. It means the inspectors judged the evidence in the file too thin to support the opinion the firm signed, which is a question about process rather than honesty.

The largest penalty in this research belongs to a firm that did not qualify at all. The SEC settled with Prager Metis for $1.95 million on 17 September 2024, over the FTX audits and over indemnification clauses in more than 200 engagement letters. The regulator found the firm had falsely represented that those audits met Generally Accepted Auditing Standards. It had also missed the risk arising from FTX's relationship with Alameda Research LLC. Search pragermetis.com for FTX today and it returns no results.

How we ranked the firms

Every firm had to publish a street address inside the City of Los Angeles on its own website. The address test removed more candidates than everything else combined. A suite in Burbank, Beverly Hills or Santa Monica did not count, and neither did a mailbox store.

Ownership had to be traceable. Where a firm is owned by a buyout fund, the entry names the fund and the year, and says whether the firm discloses it. Regulator records came from the SEC and the PCAOB directly rather than from news coverage. A firm with a finding carries it inside its own entry rather than in a footnote.

Site currency counted too. A copyright year eight years out of date, or a staff directory that does not load, tells a buyer something real about how the firm is run. No estimates were used anywhere. Where a firm publishes no headcount, no founding year and no price, the entry says so rather than filling the gap.

Review scores are absent throughout, and that is a real limitation of this list. Accounting firms have no equivalent of the G2 and Capterra listings used elsewhere on this site. Google and Yelp both blocked every research pass, so no score was collected rather than an unverified one published.

Every firm here is a certified public accountant firm, or a partnership that keeps its audit work inside a licensed CPA entity. Armanino and CohnReznick are the two that split that way, and both say so in their footers.

When none of these firms is the right choice

Twelve firms is not every firm, and a Los Angeles address is not always the thing that matters most.

A company with no California operations gains little from a Los Angeles firm, because federal and multi-state work travels. The firm that already knows your state filings will usually cost less than one learning them. A pre-revenue company is the wrong fit for everything here, since Armanino's $18,487 a year is the cheapest published figure and every other firm quotes on request.

An owner who wants the same person on every call may do better with a sole practitioner. Every firm here that publishes a partner count reports more than six. And if the work is a single tax return, none of this matters. Address, ownership and inspection history are questions for a recurring engagement, not a one-off filing.

How do I check a Los Angeles accounting firm myself?

Start with the address on the firm's own locations page. Read the city on the address line rather than the heading above it, because the heading is marketing and the address line is a fact.

Then search the firm name at sec.gov and pcaobus.org. Both hold public orders and inspection reports that no marketing page will ever mention. The California Board of Accountancy publishes licence status for every CPA and CPA firm in the state. Its lookup sits behind a human verification step, so it has to be run by hand.

Three questions are worth asking on the first call. Ask who owns the firm today, and whether that changed in the last three years. Ask which legal entity signs the engagement letter, and whether it is a licensed CPA firm. Then ask what the most recent peer review report said.

Which firms were excluded, and why?

Eight firms that rank for this search did not qualify, and address was the reason for four of them.

Miller Kaplan's "Los Angeles" office is in Burbank, and Prager Metis publishes no City of Los Angeles address at all. Kruze Consulting publishes one office, in San Francisco, and its Los Angeles landing page returns a 404. Propeller Industries publishes one address, at One World Trade Center in New York, and calls its own roles fully remote. Both dominate Los Angeles startup accounting searches without a Los Angeles office.

Two more no longer exist as independent firms. Karlin & Peebles merged into the law firm Holland & Knight on 1 January 2025, and its contact page now prints Holland & Knight's address. Kirsch Kohn & Bridge lost its site entirely when kkbcpa.com began redirecting to aprio.com.

The last two failed on evidence rather than geography. Cooper Moss Resnick Klein has a qualifying Sherman Oaks address, but its newest datable content is a 2015 tax letter. Four spam subdomains are also serving foreign language pages from the firm's own domain. Fineman West could not be verified at all, because finemanwest.com would not serve and the live site publishes no address, no phone number and no footer.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best accounting firm in Los Angeles?

HCVT is the best overall choice. It is the largest Los Angeles based firm. It names family offices as a core client type. It works from two offices inside the city. Buyers should also read its 2018 SEC order.

Which Los Angeles accounting firm publishes its prices?

Armanino is the only one. Its startup bundle costs $18,487 a year for the Launch tier and $26,887 a year for the Scale tier, both on a one year contract. Every other firm on this list quotes on request.

Is Miller Kaplan a Los Angeles accounting firm?

No. Miller Kaplan prints the heading "Los Angeles" above an address at 3900 W. Alameda Avenue in Burbank. Burbank is a separate city with its own council and business tax.

Which accounting firm in Los Angeles is best for startups?

Armanino, because it is the only firm that publishes an annual price a founder can budget against. SingerLewak is the better fit once a company is preparing for an audit committee or an IPO.

Which Los Angeles firms are owned by private equity?

Three of the twelve. CohnReznick took an Apax investment in February 2025. Armanino appears on Further Global's portfolio page for 2024. NKSFB has been part of Focus Financial Partners since 2018.

Which accounting firm handles entertainment business management in Los Angeles?

NKSFB has the deepest practice, with separate service lines for recording artists, touring and athletes. Gursey Schneider is the alternative when litigation support or a business valuation is also needed.

Do any Los Angeles accounting firms have SEC or PCAOB findings?

Yes. HCVT and CohnReznick both have SEC orders. CohnReznick also has a PCAOB penalty. Armanino and Rose Snyder & Jacobs have PCAOB inspection deficiencies. Each finding is named inside that firm's entry.

How do I check a Los Angeles CPA firm myself?

Check the city on the address line rather than the heading above it. Search the firm name at sec.gov and pcaobus.org for orders and inspection reports. Then ask the firm who owns it today, which entity signs the engagement letter, and what its last peer review said.