Veterinary accounting, tax readiness, and fractional CFO support
Clearer Numbers. Stronger Cash Flow. A Healthier Veterinary Practice.
LAX Accounting Services helps independent veterinary practice owners understand what their numbers are saying, strengthen financial systems, prepare for taxes, and make more confident decisions about hiring, owner pay, profitability, and growth.
Veterinary accounting focus • Fractional CFO perspective • Veteran-led service • No one-size-fits-all solutions
The pressure behind the production
Your Practice Can Be Busy Without Being Financially Healthy.
High revenue and a full appointment schedule do not automatically produce healthy cash flow, dependable profit, appropriate owner compensation, accurate reporting, or tax readiness.
Payroll is increasing faster than profit
Hiring decisions are based on workload rather than financial capacity
Financial statements arrive late or are difficult to understand
Owner pay and distributions are inconsistent
Taxes are addressed reactively instead of proactively
Two specialized entry points
Choose the Financial X-Ray Your Practice Needs
Start with the question creating the most pressure today. Each assessment has a different purpose and a clear next step.
Practice financial healthFree preliminary assessment
Profit, cash flow, payroll, and reporting
Practice Profit X-Ray
A free preliminary assessment that helps identify possible profit leaks, cash-flow pressure points, payroll concerns, reporting weaknesses, owner-pay issues, and financial priorities.
- Approximately 15 minutes
- Immediate preliminary results
- No bank login required
- Built for independent veterinary practices
Tax readiness and planning questionsFocused professional pathway
Documentation, entity, and compensation readiness
Veterinary Tax Strategy X-Ray
A focused tax-readiness assessment designed to help veterinary practice owners recognize possible planning gaps, documentation concerns, entity and compensation questions, and areas that may deserve professional review.
- Veterinary-practice focused
- Designed to surface planning questions
- Supports a more organized professional review
- No promise or guarantee of tax savings
Assessment results are educational and preliminary. They are not tax, legal, investment, or individualized accounting advice and do not create a professional relationship.
A clear next step
From Financial Questions to an Actionable Plan
Begin with the right level of information, then deepen the analysis only when the practice needs it.
Assess
Complete the preliminary X-Ray that best matches the financial question creating pressure.
Understand
See which areas appear strongest and which financial areas may deserve closer attention.
Monitor
Use Practice Profit X-Ray Pro for ongoing financial organization, visibility, and decision support based on the platform’s confirmed capabilities.
Diagnose
Purchase a professional diagnostic or schedule the appropriate consultation when deeper analysis is needed.
Implement
Engage LAX Accounting Services for accounting, cleanup, planning, reporting, tax-readiness, or fractional CFO support when appropriate.
The free assessments, Practice Profit X-Ray Pro, paid diagnostics, and professional LAX Accounting Services engagements are separate offerings. Using an assessment or software platform does not automatically establish a professional accounting, tax-advisory, or fractional CFO relationship.
Ongoing financial visibility
Move Beyond a One-Time Financial Snapshot.
The free Practice Profit X-Ray helps identify a financial starting point. Practice Profit X-Ray Pro provides an ongoing software environment designed to help veterinary practice leaders maintain greater visibility, organization, and consistency as they evaluate the business behind the medicine.
The platform helps bridge the space between identifying a financial concern and deciding when deeper professional analysis or implementation support may be appropriate.
A more consistent financial-management rhythmConfirmed platform capabilities
- Organize a monthly P&L into meaningful financial categories
- Review a transparent Clean Books Score with visible source evidence
- Surface priority findings with formulas, confidence, and annualized scenarios
- Follow a repeatable monthly close and financial-review rhythm
- Export findings to CSV or prepare a print-to-PDF report
Practice Profit X-Ray Pro provides software tools, financial organization, educational information, and decision support based on its confirmed functionality. It does not provide legal, investment, tax, or individualized accounting advice and does not replace review by qualified professionals.
Veterinary-focused professional services
Financial support built around better business decisions.
Veterinary Bookkeeping and Monthly Accounting
Create dependable monthly numbers so you can see performance, prepare for obligations, and lead from a reliable financial baseline.
Learn moreFinancial Cleanup and QuickBooks Online Support
Correct unreliable records and organize QuickBooks Online so past confusion does not keep weakening current decisions.
Learn moreCash-Flow and Profitability Analysis
Understand where money is moving, what is driving margin, and why strong revenue may not be creating stronger cash.
Learn morePayroll, Hiring-Capacity, and Owner-Pay Planning
Model the full financial effect of team growth while protecting cash reserves, sustainable compensation, and practice value.
Learn moreTax Preparation, Tax Readiness, and Proactive Planning
Build cleaner documentation and earlier visibility so tax decisions can be addressed with time for thoughtful professional review.
Learn moreFractional CFO Reporting, Forecasting, and Decision Support
Turn trustworthy monthly information into forecasts, scenarios, priorities, and clearer choices about the practice’s future.
Learn more
Anthony Barge, MBAVeterinary Accounting Specialist & Fractional CFO
About Anthony
Built by Someone Who Understands the Numbers Behind the Medicine
Anthony Barge is the owner of LAX Accounting Services, a Marine Corps veteran, veterinary accounting specialist, fractional CFO, tax strategist, author of the Clean Books, Strong Practice series, and host of the Clean Books, Strong Practice podcast.
His work connects financial discipline, operational decision-making, and practical education so independent veterinary owners can understand the business behind the care they provide.
About Anthony BargeLearn, assess, monitor, diagnose, and implement
More Than an Accounting Firm—A Financial Education Ecosystem
Use the resource or level of support that fits the decision in front of you. Each offer stands on its own, with a distinct purpose and next step.
Learn
Clean Books, Strong Practice books
Develop stronger financial instincts with practical guidance.
LearnClean Books, Strong Practice podcast
Continue the conversation through accessible owner education.
AssessFree Practice Profit X-Ray
Start with a free preliminary financial-health assessment.
AssessVeterinary Tax Strategy X-Ray
Recognize tax-readiness questions that may deserve professional review.
MonitorPractice Profit X-Ray Pro
Maintain an ongoing monthly financial-management rhythm.
Explore X-Ray Pro →DiagnoseComplete Practice Profit Diagnostic
Purchase a deeper professional review with a 90-day action plan.
ImplementLAX consultations and professional services
Move from educational insight to deeper analysis and support.
Credibility without the hype
Specialized support. Practical education. Clearer decisions.
LAX Accounting Services earns trust through disciplined work, veterinary focus, useful education, and forward-looking support— never fabricated promises or one-size-fits-all claims.
Veteran-led service
Veterinary accounting specialization
Fractional CFO perspective
Published author
Podcast host
Educational assessment developer
Personalized, forward-looking support