Accounting as a Healing Art
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Denali Park, looking to the south toward Denali and the Alaska Range. 6x6 slide film, autumn 2008
Our Values
Before all else, we value people.​
We practice compassionate understanding.
We respect every person we meet.
We do not discriminate on the basis of any
category, attribute, label, tag, characterization, or favorite color.​​
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We value community.​
Community means an offer of sharing, communication, mutual respect, assistance, care, partnership, support, relationship, encouragement, and communion.
Community is an expression of humanity. Community is the basis of good citizenship.
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We embrace the best ideals of the United States of America, that all persons are created equal,
and all persons are entitled to the rights of life, liberty, security, well-being, and equal justice.
We meet each person as a community member regardless of “legal status.”
Our Philosophy
Knowledge kept is greed; knowledge shared is power.​
Feniks & Company is a consultation-focused accounting firm.
We share our knowledge and expertise to empower you in your own financial capacity.
We enrich your understanding of what you do and how you live your financial life.
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We practice accounting as a healing art.​
We take a whole-life approach your accounting needs,
the way a family doctor approaches the whole-life health of her patients.
We focus on a relationship of continuing support for financial health
rather than a variety of accounting interventions.
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Financial concerns often carry emotional concerns, often in the form of crippling fear or anxiety.
We help you understand your situation, put fears into perspective, and provide relief to anxiety.
We do this first by listening and caring, and then by planning healthy and healing strategies.
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Feniks & Company is a consultation-focused firm​ serving individuals, non-profit organizations, and small, closely-held businesses.
Our goal is to empower our clients in the management of financial and business goals, expectations, obligations, and opportunities.
We provide all of the usual accounting services (tax returns, payroll, bookkeeping, etc.) with an emphasis on educating our clients
so that they can walk into a banker’s office for a loan and speak knowingly and confidently about their plans.​
About our Practice
View northwest toward the southern foothills of the Brooks Range, not far from Bettles, Alaska. Digital capture, autumn 2025
​​​We seek to empower our clients in the management of business needs that might otherwise be seen as burdensome, tedious, peripheral, overwhelming, or a “necessary evil.”
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Our intent is to support the business so that day-to-day operations are conducted with a view to the future rather than the past.
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A view to the future sees accounting obligations (the past)
as valuable opportunities for self-knowledge in the present
which can be applied to inform decisions into the future.
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Future concerns may include tax planning, retirement options, budget and growth, entity development, investments, healthcare issues and opportunities, staff training and development,
and business opportunities over the horizon.
Our emphasis on consultation throughout the year helps keep us informed of changes that allow us to work behind the scenesand “see around the corner” as the year progresses. ​​
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Our role as a trusted client advisor to our business clients means we work as an effective member of the business team.
As we close prior years and prepare compliance filings, the past is resolved to keep things in perspective for decisions in the present
which address plans and concerns for the future.
​​We thus turn a “necessary evil” into a welcome perspective.
BE AWARE OF SCAMMERS:
The IRS only contacts taxpayers by letter mail. The IRS will NEVER contact you to request personal or financial information by any type of electronic communication such as email, text messages, and social media. Some phone scammers recite fake names, IRS badge numbers, or even the last four digits of the victim's Social Security number. The IRS will never ask for credit card, debit card, or prepaid card information over the telephone or email.
To learn more or if you believe you are the victim of a scam, visit http://www.irs.gov/uac/Report-Phishing.​​