Accounting • Tax • Advisory
Helping Music Retailers Build More Profitable Businesses
Accounting, tax, benchmarking, and advisory services built for music retailers.
Why MRAS?
Music Retail Is Different. Your Financial Guidance Should Be, Too.
Music retail businesses face inventory cycles, rental fleets, repair departments, vendor programs, school relationships, e-commerce, and seasonal swings. Each one affects profitability.
Music Retail Accountants & Specialists (MRAS) helps owners connect the numbers to the operational decisions that drive performance.
Industry-Specific Insight
Guidance built around the realities of music retail, including inventory, rentals, repairs, school relationships, and seasonality.
Clearer Financial Reporting
Reporting that helps owners understand profitability, cash flow, inventory, and department performance.
Profitability-Focused Advisory
Practical support for improving margins, pricing, purchasing, rentals, repairs, and operations.
Planning for What Comes Next
Support for growth, succession planning, business value, and long-term strategy.
What We Do
Accounting, tax, and consulting built around the way a music store actually runs.
Accounting & Tax
Reliable accounting, financial statements, and business and individual tax planning and preparation.
Learn more →Profitability & Operations
Practical guidance for margins, inventory, rentals, repairs, benchmarking, and POS reporting.
Learn more →Business Value & Succession
Understand what your store is worth and plan for the next chapter.
Learn more →Free Year-End Resources
Year-end checklists for AIM, Music Shop 360, QuickBooks, and other systems, plus a free inventory count template and planning checklists for your business and personal taxes.
Meet the Team
Music retail experience, accounting and tax knowledge, and a commitment to lasting client relationships.
Daniel Jobe, EA
Partner
Kayley Armington, CPA
Partner
Lori A. Gates
Senior Account Manager
Meredith Jobe
Firm Administrator
See Us at The NAMM Show 2027
Daniel Jobe and Alan Friedman of FKCo co-present two NAMM Summits on Tuesday, January 26: the Succession Summit (9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.) and the Financial Summit (1:00–4:00 p.m.).
Store owners and managers can also book a 30-minute in-person meeting with Daniel during the show.
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