Mr. Ismail F. Bharmal has extensive professional knowledge and experience of over twenty-nine (29) years and he has been in his accounting business for over fifteen (15) years.
He had a childhood dream to become a professional accountant. After high school, he continued his higher education studies and earned his bachelor's degree in Accounting in 1979 from the prestigious University of Karachi, Pakistan. He then progressed towards his dream with an added dream to have his own accounting firm. So he joined a reputed local public accounting firm in July 1979 to obtain three years of professional training, which he completed in July 1982. After completion of his training, he joined one of the big 4 accounting firms, KPMG and worked there until March 1987. He passed his Intermediate Exam in May 1983 and part II of his final exam in November 1985.
In April 1987, he left public accounting for awhile and joined a local insurance company as a finance manager but his dream was to have his own accounting firm. After his graduation, he had another dream to come to United States of America...
To make his dream come true and to work towards a better future, he migrated to the United States of America in June of 1990. He worked as an accountant for a very reputable manufacturing company until December 1993.
In early 1993, he started his own accounting firm with a few tax clients from home. In his fifteen years of business, he has served thousands of individuals and small business clients in their accounting, tax and financial planning needs.
Mr. Bharmal is a Certified Professional Advisor for Quickbooks, and holds (series 6 and 63) securities licenses. In 2003 he became an Enrolled Agent. His recent achievement is an Advisory License, and passed Series 65 in November 2007. In December 2008, he passed his CPA exam. At present, he is working on his CPA license.
His present clientele has been built mostly of referrals from his existing clients which proves his excellent high-quality of services he provides to all of his clients.