Managed IT Services for CPAs and Accountants

Recent surveys reveal that 90% of CPAs say technology is major hurdle. Christo IT’s unique managed IT services for CPAs and accountants offer a tailored solution, providing the necessary technological infrastructure and support to enhance efficiency, secure client data, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. Christo It’s services allow financial professionals to focus on core business activities without the distractions of IT issues, positioning them to offer better service to their clients while optimizing their own operational workflows.

Why IT Services for Accountants are More Important than Ever

As a Certified Public Accountant, your billable time is incredibly valuable. At Christo IT, we know that lost time only adds up to lost money in the accounting industry. In short, there’s not a moment to spare struggling with technology or waiting to recover after an outage or incident. Instead, you deserve an IT ecosystem that serves your processes and streamlines your workflows.

What’s more, your technology needs are incredibly specific. You handle sensitive data, which must be diligently protected with cybersecurity protocols and solutions that match your processes and needs. Our team at Christo IT has vast experience managing the unique IT needs of accountants across the greater Philadelphia region–and we know what it takes to deliver robust IT and cybersecurity solutions in your sector.

The Benefits of Managed IT Services for CPAs: Ceaseless Service & Powerful Security

Our managed IT services for accountants are tailored to the demands of your work: Secure, continuous, and intuitive–all to maximize your potential and keep your most sensitive data secured. Especially when every billable minute counts, our experienced engineers work round the clock to serve your firm. We’ll serve as your all-in-one provider to take your IT operations to new heights and keep them secure.

You benefit from:

Fast, Immediate Support: Your time is money. That’s why we fix issues and address your concerns right away—typically in just minutes.

Friendly Experts: Our help desk is run by Level II Engineers. When you call Christo IT, the first person you speak to is one of our qualified engineers–without having to deal with any answering services or confusing phone menus.

Consistent Service: When an IT issue calls for on-site support, the same engineer who spoke to you on the phone shows up at your door. There’s never a need to repeat your issues over and over to a whole string of technicians. When you need help the most, you’ll deal with the same dependable engineer from start to finish.

Years of Experience: The Level II Engineers that power Christo IT’s help desk have an average tenure of 3+ years, which translates into quick and simple resolutions, often right over the phone.

Industry Knowledge: Our team is experienced and knowledgeable in the specific compliance needs of the accounting industry, which means we can work to make your operations faster and better while supporting regulatory compliance.

Easy Transfers: You deserve swift, dependable, personalized IT services. Our engineers make it effortless to switch from your existing provider so you can get the service you need without any hassle.

How We Can Help: Managed IT Services for CPAs

Our IT services for accountants have been carefully designed to help you take on all your IT needs head-on, including fortifying your cybersecurity solutions and advancing your firm through intuitive technologies.

The goal is always to free you from the burden of juggling your IT and security needs on top of everything else you manage so you can focus on providing the best service possible for your clients.

Our IT services for accounting firms include:

Desktop Support: In-person and over-the-phone support for crashed laptops, challenging updates, Macs, concerns regarding security incidents, and more to keep you going.
Data Backup Solutions: Maintain critical, sensitive data with local, digital, and cloud-based backups that meet compliance requirements for the accounting industry.
Server Support: Security- and maintenance-based services, plus 24/7 monitoring and threat response to elevate your operations.
Cloud Computing: Store data and access it from anywhere, and power your work from the cloud. Get experienced support to keep your data accessible, operational, and secure.
Email & Spam Protection: Let us secure your accounts and ward off phishing, malware, and ransomware attacks, and even strengthen email protocols and compliance for better peace of mind.
IT Project Management: Keep your firm’s workflows moving seamlessly and complete projects on time. We’ll manage integrations, software updates, and version changes for your entire IT infrastructure so nothing slips through the cracks.
Network Security: Protect sensitive client data and prevent damaging data breaches that cost time and resources to mend.
Disaster Recovery Planning: Allow us to engineer a plan to recover your entire digital infrastructure, making it easier to navigate stressful situations like human error, natural disasters, and cyberattacks.
VoIP & Phone Solutions: Bring your phone, data, and video services together into a single affordable communication platform that’s both secure and convenient.
Virtualization: Empower secure remote work and allow your team to access organizational information from anywhere, all while saving time, money, and data storage.
Hardware-as-a-Service: Update your systems with the latest equipment to take your firm’s work to new levels, all via small, manageable payments and expert support.
Software-as-a-Service: Access all the software solutions your firm needs remotely through the cloud with manageable monthly payments and ongoing guidance from our engineers.
Hosted Solutions: Cut back on costly overhead, simplify your IT operations, and ensure your data stays secure with flexible hosted solutions and server maintenance at a cost that makes sense. Boost team productivity and bring in additional revenue with lower expenditures and more protection from cyber attacks and other disasters.

Managed IT Services for Accountants in Philadelphia and Beyond

Strong, effective IT solutions handled and monitored by a team of experts not only make a difference in your day-to-day workflows. They are also essential to safeguarding your confidential data in an ever-changing threat landscape. We customize our IT services for accounting firms across Philadelphia–and farther out–to ensure secure data management and common sense IT operations that better your work–all while addressing the unique challenges you face as an accounting professional.

Areas We Serve

Christo IT serves accountants, CPAs, and accounting firms in the city of Philadelphia and surrounding areas:

Allentown, PA
Wilmington, DE
Reading, PA
Princeton, NJ

Plus many more cities and towns extending beyond the greater Philadelphia region.

Our seasoned, friendly engineers are committed to providing world-class IT support when you need it most. We invite you to experience the difference of working with a team that knows and anticipates your needs and offers tailored services and support.

Christo IT has been our IT provider since our company was formed in 2005. Their ability to service our ever changing and expanding IT needs has provided us the opportunity to focus exclusively on our business and not worry about our IT systems. They have always delivered as promised and we value them as an important part of our company infrastructure.

Joseph B.

VP, F.B. Capital Partners

The Christo IT team is responsive, accurate and an absolute pleasure to work with. I would highly recommend them, and I look forward to working with them again in the future."

Joseph M.

Partner, GMS Surgent, LLC

Christo IT has been working with CPA firms since the start, over 25 years ago. From Prosystems fx, ATX, Proseries, LaCerte and more, Christo IT has the experience to make sure that your systems are running at peak performance. We are also very familiar with the updates necessary to keep the system patched with Tax changes throughout the year.

Christo IT knows that the IRS has mandated that CPA firms need to have a Written Information Security Plan (WISP) in order to protect their clients data. Using the WISP tool, Christo IT works with their clients to address their IT risk and using Christo IT’s cyber security stack included for all clients, keep their WISP up to date and proactively geared towards a steady betterment on the firm’s roadmap.

Christo IT knows time is of the essence - especially during quarterly tax filings and especially during busy season. Our Backup and Disaster Recovery is built from the ground up for speed and a best possible TTR (Time to Recovery). Our backup systems are able to be spun up within hours and available to continue to work remotely.

Christo IT knows how valuable time is to your firm’s employees. Not only from a billable resource perspective, but also from meeting your client’s needs as well. Christo IT answers every call live, typically starting to work on your problem from minute 0. Our mean resolution time is less than 15 minutes. We also have 3 engineers on call for after hours response, to handle those late night busy season issues for you.

Christo IT has been a part of the community for over 25 years, and has grown over that time with our clients. We have had clients grow and double and triple in size, and we have been there to help them through those growth periods.

Christo IT has a three stage patch management system that is applied Sunday late evenings to all managed devices. We also have a daytime patching system where necessary for more critical patches.

We use 20+ layers of cybersecurity to actively monitor and protect against malicious intent and access.

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On average, you can count on our on-demand IT support solutions costing between $150-$200 per person, per month. Does that mean every employee needs to be covered? No.

Give us a call at 215-256-7901 or send us a message for a 30-minute conversation to determine exactly how much you can expect to spend.

Christo IT has made cybersecurity a priority for all of our clients, and over the past 5 years has made our cyber security layers standard and required for all of our clients. This standardization comes from working with over 20+ insurance underwriters, and their best practices, to best protect your firm’s most valuable asset, the trust you hold with your client’s precious information. Our team has been fully trained on our cybersecurity procedures, policies, and toolsets to deliver on our security layers second to none.

Let’s Work Together to Build and Secure Something Great

At Christo IT, our work is solely focused on providing exceptional and personal managed IT services to busy professionals. Through our managed IT services, we’ll navigate the ins and outs of the evolving needs for cybersecurity and explore emerging technologies to expand what’s possible in your IT infrastructure.

Stay compliant, protect your network from cyber risk, and see what more you can do when your IT solutions really work for you with Christo IT.

Discover more about how we’ll support your work with elite, managed IT services. Request a free consultation now!