About

LITTLEWOOD & Associates CPAS PLLC

Started over 10 years ago, Littlewood & Associates CPAS PLLC has always known the best application of our collective resume is our professional staff in terms of our training, experience, and strongest areas of practice.

We are accounting, tax, and advisory service providers to closely held businesses ranging in annual revenue from $300,000 to more than $9,000,000 single-office and multi-office service and product providers. We are degreed, certified, and enrolled. Our experience in our various professional areas is deep and impressive.

Over the years we have advised close to 200 closely held businesses, mostly LLCs, but also S Corps, C Corps, Partnerships, and nonprofits. Filing over 600 or more federal and state business tax returns.

Over the years, we have advised close to 600 individuals in the planning and preparation of their individual income tax returns, having filed over 2,500 individual tax returns of various sorts.

From doctors to financial planners, from product manufacturers to interior design consultants, from charitable nonprofits to certification academies, our clients represent a wide scope of small businesses. Our firm demonstrates substantial ability and experience.

The WHY we Exist

Since the start-up of the firm 10 years ago, we have been in the business of advising, and providing accounting and tax support services for closely held businesses from the early start-up months to the months of managed growth, expansion, and success. We will guide and support you in making the difficult tax reporting and filing decisions required.

In addition, we have been in the business of advising individuals in the strategic planning and filing of their personal income tax returns, and when required, to represent them in favorable resolutions to their IRS and state tax office disputes.

We believe that to be effective, we must demonstrate excellent communication skills, excellent technical accounting and tax skills, and the ability to meet tax office deadlines and the work completion requirements of our clients.

Over the past 10 years, we have advised several startups from the conceptual stage to the growth and expansion stage.

We have also advised the owners of several startups from the simple draw of earnings as available then estimated tax payments, to the processing of wages for them subject to withholdings, and the implementation and funding of their retirement plans.

Our WHY we exist is to support the success of your business and to redirect your earnings from taxes to salaries and benefits, and then to savings and investments.

Meet Our Team

Stephen W Littlewood CPA

Founding Member & Principal CPA

Steve is a Certified Public Accountant registered currently in the state of Virginia. He has also managed mid-sized law firms as their principal administrator and served one large international law firm as one of their Senior Financial Managers. In total, Steve has over 25 years of hands-on accounting, tax, business, and finance management experience.

In addition to his CPA, Steve is a QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor, has a BS degree in Accounting, and has completed many required courses toward his master’s degree.

Steve belongs to the Virginia Society of CPAs (VSCPA), the Northern Virginia Chapter of the VSCPA, and is affiliated with the American Institute of CPAs, (AICPA). He is registered with the IRS and with many state tax offices and has the required CAF and PTIN numbers.

When Steve is not at his desk in his office in Fairfax, he can be found either in Tampa visiting his son, daughter-in-law, and three grandkids, Jake, Cora, and Dylan, or singing in his church Choir and serving on the Vestry of Holy Comforter Episcopal Church in Vienna or can be found on the mats at the Fifty/50 Brazilian Jujitsu Studio in Falls Church Virginia. Steve loves to travel and enjoys exploring restaurants and wineries in the DMV.

Tammy Price

Firm Accounting Associate

Tammy Price came to Littlewood & Associates with over 30 years of experience as a full-charge bookkeeper and as a former owner of her own professional service company.

She has a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and is a QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor and a QuickBooks Payroll ProAdvisor. She is also extremely proficient in a variety of office and accounting technical applications such as MS Office Suite, Gusto, ADP Payroll, and more.

Tammy has ample hands-on experience in financial reporting, payroll, accounts receivable management, and billing, as well as vendor management and payables. She is also experienced in income tax preparation and advisory services for both businesses and individuals.

When Tammy is not at her desk, she enjoys spending time with her family or playing with her many fur babies.

Lisa Gaskins

Firm Office Administrator

When Lisa came to Littlewood and Associates, she brought over 30 years of experience in accounting, marketing, and small business ownership, and management, as well as personal supervision.

Lisa is, in addition to her management and accounting experience, very proficient in a number of applied software platforms including MS Office and Quickbooks. She brings a friendly, approachable, and collaborative manner, excellent, proven problem-solving skills, and a high level of client-customer service abilities.

When Lisa is not at her desk in our administrative offices in Fairfax Virginia, you can find her enjoying time with her handsome grandsons Liam and Gabriel, amazing sons, Derek and Jordan, or perhaps at a concert with her husband Herman.

Christopher Littlewood

Firm Tax Associate

Christopher is starting his second year with Littlewood & Associates, having spent nearly 17 years in the financial services industry. Leveraging his skillset acquired over the years as a commercial banker for a large multi-national bank, Christopher leans on his extensive experience of complex tax matters to assist the firm with individual, business and non-profit clients in the areas of tax compliance and strategic planning. Christopher enjoys working closely with the firm’s managing principal in developing, recommending, and implementing efficient and effective methods to maximize client benefits, especially by decreasing clients’ current and future tax liabilities.

Christopher graduated from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and is currently working towards his Master of Science degree in Accounting and Enrolled Agent designation.

Despite growing up and having fond memories of his time in the Northern Virginia area, he’s since escaped to the warmer and less congested city of Tampa, FL. Christopher and his wife, Katie, have three amazing and highly energetic young children. When he finds the time, Christopher enjoys playing golf and grilling delicious treats for his family.