Who we are
Arkin & Associates, P.C. serves closely held businesses by providing tax advice and compliance services. We also offer consulting, bookkeeping, and payroll support to our clients. Saving you taxes and assisting you in running your business are our chief aims.
If your tax burden is too high,
You want to focus on running your business,
Or you need a trusted advisor…
Call or email us.
Steven Arkin, CPA - Business Advisor
Steven Arkin grew up in Savannah and graduated from Benedictine Military School. He went on to receive a BBA with distinction in Accounting from George Washington University. Upon graduation, Steven passed the CPA exam and was employed by Arthur Andersen & Co. in Washington, DC. Steven continued his education, receiving a Master of Taxation degree from Georgia State University before joining the Atlanta office of Deloitte, Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte) where he was a manager in the tax department. Steven returned to Savannah and opened Arkin & Associates, PC.
Steven is a Chartered Financial Consultant and a Chartered Life Underwriter and also owns Arkin Financial Advisors, LLC, a financial planning firm. Steven is an Accredited Estate Planner and until 2017 appraised businesses as a Certified Valuation Analyst, giving it up to spend more time in financial planning and tax. In addition to numerous awards, Steven was named the SBA Small Business Accountant of the Year for the 8 states comprising the Southeast, U.S.
Dan Mahowald - Business Advisor
Dan graduated from the University of St Thomas in 1993 and went to work for Coopers and Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers) in the fall of 1993 as an auditor. He spent 2 years at Cooper's working on clients ranging in size from small local firms to international companies. In 1996, Dan switched gears into technology and went to work at Total Solutions Group, heading up their e-commerce division and successfully building the business up during the e-commerce explosion in the late 1990s. In 1999, that division of TSG was sold and Dan went to work for Friedman’s Jeweler’s and quickly rose within the ranks and became the Chief Information Officer of Friedman’s up until the company moved to Texas in 2006.
Dan went to work with the firm in the fall of 2006 and works mainly on small to medium-sized companies assisting them with operational issues and tax planning strategies. Dan also spearheads our “CFO to Go” program and works with a number of local companies in their day-to-day operations.
