Schneider & Stone PLC | About our Accountants

About our Accountants

Schneider & Stone PLC was formed as a combination of Dawn Schneider & Ryan Stone’s accounting practices. In order to better serve the community, Dawn & Ryan decided to team up to provide a comprehensive set of skills to the Phoenix area, including Ocotillo, Chandler, and Gilbert

We believe in the value of relationships. We strive to form a long-term relationship with our clients, and truly believe that our success is a result of your success. We are committed to providing close, personal attention to our clients in Chandler and the surrounding areas. We take pride in providing valley residents with exceptional income tax and accounting service from our training, experience and financial knowledge.

We provide a variety of services including:

Income Tax Preparation for all types of businesses, and individuals
IRS and State Audit Representation
Payroll Reporting
QuickBooks setup, support and training
Monthly bookkeeping
Financial statements – making sure your financial records are timely and accurate

Our continual investment of time and resources in professional continuing education, top of the line computer technology and extensive business relationships is indicative of our commitment to excellence.

Schneider & Stone is a registered firm with the Arizona Board of Accountancy.

About Dawn Schneider, CPA

Dawn Schneider has been a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) for over 20 years. She was originally licensed in Florida, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Central Florida with a degree in Accounting. Dawn began her career with a big eight accounting firm in Orlando. She worked as an auditor on large publicly held companies in manufacturing, healthcare, publishing and other industries.

From there, she returned to her roots in Iowa and continued to practice accounting and tax for another International accounting firm. Dawn thoroughly enjoyed her years in public accounting as an auditor.

Dawn left the big firm environment to raise three children. During this time, she maintained her CPA with continuing education, and graduate course work. She also did temporary work such as teaching accounting at a community college and assuming controller responsibilities during a controller’s leave. She also enjoyed volunteering as Treasurer for a Parent teacher organization.

In 2000, Dawn began working with Individual and small business tax and accounting for a small local firm in Iowa. Dawn transferred the knowledge she acquired in her audit career to the small business environment. This is the area that she has found a true passion for. In Iowa, Dawn began a partnership with a colleague offering tax and accounting services. Shortly thereafter she moved out of state for a temporary assignment. During this time she worked for Andover CPAs, in Andover Kansas. Since Arizona was going to be a more permanent location she was very excited to meet Ryan Stone and start a new partnership.

About Ryan Stone, CPA

Ryan began his career in restaurant management before moving into banking. These experiences helped Ryan realize how important financial accounting and tax is to individuals and businesses. This led Ryan to make the decision to go back to school and earn a masters in accountancy.

Upon receiving his masters degree, Ryan began working for a Chandler CPA firm while also providing tax software support for Intuit. Although Ryan enjoyed these positions, his goal was always to be an entrepreneur. It was during this time that Ryan and Dawn met. They shared a common goal of owning their own firm, similar work ethic and business values and felt they would work well as a team.