About

A complete system, built inside Intuit. Backed by an Enrolled Agent license — the highest credential the IRS awards.

Convenient Accounting is the year-round accounting and tax practice you won’t find anywhere else — years of pattern recognition from inside Intuit, distilled into a methodology now run by Foad Nabi Bidhendi, EA. Federally licensed by the IRS with unlimited rights to represent you in audits, appeals, and every interaction in between.

Foad Nabi Bidhendi, Enrolled Agent
The Story

The pattern that made it possible.

Years inside Intuit looking at many small business books surfaced the same patterns over and over. Misclassified expenses. S-corps run like LLCs. Books opened in March in panic. Three different people involved — a bookkeeper, a tax preparer, a part-time CFO — and none of them looking at the same QuickBooks file at the same time.

The fix wasn’t more reports or another year-end review. It was building a single system around how the work should actually run: someone in your books every week, planning your tax year forward, knowing your business by April — not after. Convenient Accounting is how that system operates — by Foad Nabi Bidhendi, EA, with one teammate and a deliberately small footprint.

How It’s Different

Led by a practitioner who lives in your books — not a partner who reviews them once a quarter.

Most accounting practices sell you the senior partner and hand the work to a junior. The senior signs the cover letter; you never hear from them again. Convenient Accounting works the opposite way. The person on your discovery call is the same person closing your books in October and answering your texts when something looks weird in the P&L.

EA vs CPA

Why “Public” in CPA confuses people.

“Certified Public Accountant” sounds like it means “for the public.” It doesn’t, exactly. CPAs were certified to serve the public as auditors — to sign independent opinions on a company’s books. That’s the work that publicly-traded companies, banks asking for audited financials, and grant-funded organizations actually need.

For most owner-operated businesses, that work is the wrong fit. What matters more is someone in your QuickBooks every week, planning your tax year forward, and translating numbers into decisions. That’s the work an Enrolled Agent does — federally licensed by the IRS, with the same unlimited representation rights in front of the IRS as a CPA, and a deeper specialization in tax.

Public company, audit, or attestation needed?

Find a CPA. They are the only ones who can sign that work.

Private business, taxes, year-round bookkeeping?

That’s an Enrolled Agent’s home turf. That’s the work done here.

Approach

How the work gets done.

01

In your books weekly.

No “send the file in March.” We work in your QuickBooks every week, the way you’d work with a controller — except we already know your industry.

02

Plan first, file second.

Tax filing is the result of decisions made nine months earlier. We design the year, then file what we already planned. By April, no surprises.

03

Same hands, all year.

The person on your discovery call is the same person closing your books in November. No partner-to-junior handoff. No new face at year-end.

Fit

Who we work best with.

A good fit.

  • Owner-operated businesses, $500K — $10M in revenue
  • Privately held — no audit or attestation needs
  • Open to working in QuickBooks Online and on Zoom
  • Wants to read their own numbers, not just receive them
  • Serving Santa Barbara, Goleta, Carpinteria, or Montecito

Not a fit.

  • Businesses needing audited financial statements (find a CPA)
  • Public companies or pre-IPO
  • Looking for the cheapest possible filer
  • Year-end-only mindset, no interest in monthly close