Emelia Mensa, CPA

Emelia Mensa, CPA

Reviews Summary

The overwhelming consensus is extremely positive, with reviewers consistently praising the CPA's professionalism, efficiency, and deep tax expertise. Many highlight her patience, clear explanations, and ability to simplify complex tax situations. The service is described as thorough, organized, and accommodating, with excellent communication and quick response times. Clients appreciate her friendly demeanor, attention to detail, and ability to maximize returns. A single negative review mentions rudeness regarding cryptocurrency tax inquiries, but this is an outlier among glowing testimonials emphasizing trustworthiness and exceptional client care.

About This Listing

Bookkeeping
Business Consulting
Tax Preparation
Tax Planning
IRS Representation
Small Businesses

Who Can Work with a CPA?

Individuals seeking tax prep, retirement planning, or financial advice
Small business owners needing bookkeeping, payroll, or tax compliance
Freelancers and contractors with 1099 income or complex returns
Couples planning finances together or managing joint returns
Investors with capital gains or rental property income
Anyone looking for year-round financial guidance and peace of mind

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First-Time Clients

If this is your first time working with a CPA, don’t worry — most professionals offer a free consultation and will walk you through what to expect. You may be asked to complete an intake form, share financial documents, or set clear goals for your session.

What to Know Upfront:

Documentation Bring your most recent tax returns, income details, and any financial concerns
Availability Appointments fill up quickly during tax season — book early if possible

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What to Bring

Government-issued ID for verification
Tax documents (W-2s, 1099s, investment summaries, etc.)
Receipts or logs for deductible expenses, donations, or mileage

*Tip: Organize your documents in advance to save time and ensure accuracy.*

Preparing for Your Appointment

Write down any financial goals or questions in advance
Check if your CPA offers virtual sessions or document uploads
Bring a notebook or use a notes app for key takeaways
Know your deadlines for filing, payments, or compliance

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How to Get Started

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Other Helpful Info

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Fees may be flat-rate, hourly, or based on service complexity
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Features

Bookkeeping
Business Consulting
Tax Preparation
Tax Planning
IRS Representation
Small Businesses

Contact Information

Address

272 Meriden Rd #2w

Waterbury, Connecticut 06705

Hours

Sunday Closed
Monday 9AM-7PM
Tuesday 9AM-7PM
Wednesday 9AM-7PM
Thursday 9AM-7PM
Friday 9AM-7PM
Saturday Closed

Customer Reviews

After doing a search for CPA's in Waterbury and reviewing their credentials & reviews, I decided to call Emelia Mensa. And I am sure glad I did! She was able to jump in and clean up a tax issue I was going through. Emelia is very professional and responsive. I would highly recommend her to anyone in need of tax or accounting services.

I am so appreciative of Emelia Mensa, CPA's work, she is extremely personable & experienced with numbers. She helped me with my financial planning, did my taxes, & amended taxes done by someone else, that, to her, clearly needed to be adjusted. Her being extremely knowledgeable in the field, allowed me to get double the amount of taxes back from what I previously paid out in the prior year. Excellent work!!! And, Thank you!!!

Emelia is excellent! I was overwhelmed with handling my late husband?s complicated taxes. She was very personable, organized and promptly handled everything with ease. I would highly recommend her and will definitely use her for all my future taxes.

Emelia and her team have been taking care of my taxes now for three years. Best experience with a CPA I ever had. I recommend her to anyone looking for a great CPA.

Emilia is the best! If you want it done right, Emilia is the person for you. Professional, friendly and willing to help you. I highly recommend her.

Overall great experience Very well organized and professional Easy modern programs to conveniently share files securely. Help me check previous years of taxes in question fast and kept me up to date throughout the process. 10/10 would recommend!!!

A little bit thrown, given the ratings are so high. I called to inquire if the Firm does international taxes, and the woman who answered the phone said flatly, ?we?re not interested,? and hung up the phone on me. These folks will need to update their offerings on National Association of Enrolled Agents.

Emelia Mensa is a super high-quality CPA. We use her services for our personal taxes. She is fast, accurate, and communicates clearly and thoughtfully. She also gives good advice and keeps an eye on options and overall trajectory. She stays in touch throughout the year and issues a helpful newsletter. She stays on top of changes to federal, state, and local taxes. Hire her! You?ll be thrilled.

My family has been using Ms Mensa's financial services for the past 4 yrs for our income tax returns, and have never been in doubt of her professionalism and competence. She heeds to appointments, is very organized, and explains the process from beginning to end. She is not only a provider but an advisor. Her prices are competitive and go with the amount of work she has to do. To top up, she has a very educative financial newsletter which she emails to us (and I believe to other clients as well) that among

Very professional. Great personality. Confidential setting. Takes her time to explain your paperwork and answers any questions.

Emelia is extremely detail-oriented and does a great job! Within an hour of initially reaching out for an appointment at her practice, she got back to me, and accommodated my schedule to prepare everything and help me file my tax return. 10/10 recommend, and will definitely be using her services in the future!

I have never met nor worked with an accounting firm so professional, responsive and informative as Emelia! I've always had a simple straight forward tax return all my life however this past year's events changed that. Emelia is incredible with knowing and applying the tax laws to attain the maximum allowances by state and federal laws. Although she can be accessed and able to conduct the whole process by electronics from anywhere in the country, I visited her in her office. I presented tons of paperwo

She is very thorough and efficient and pleasant.absolurely recommend her.

Emelia has been super professional and accommodating for my tax needs. The smart vault system she utilizes is very convenient to upload all of your documents for personal and business taxes. She responds very quickly and explains everything you need to know. I highly recommend her services

Emelia Mensa and her team are the best in my opinion. Emelia takes personal interest in all her clients ?cases. She is very professional, ethical as she is very smart. The entire team is very good in what they do. Emelia represented me before the IRS and the State of New York. She saved my over $100,000 in tax liability, and help restore my driving privileges. She made the entire process seemed so effortless. From my perspective the experience was a really great and painless. She is very responsive and she

Emelia was a pure pleasure to work with. I came to her and she was able to go through my complex taxes in a quick fashion. She explained everything to me and worked patiently around my hectic schedule. I would highly recommend her to anyone that asks.

Emelia Mensa CPA is hands-down the most trusted, knowledgeable, compassionate and efficient Certified Public Accountant and Enrolled Agent Firm I have ever worked with (I have tried a few over the years). Emelia is very efficient, friendly and honest with a caring attitude. Her patience and knowledge were vividly evident when explaining complex issues to me. She is very responsive to her clients, no matter how trivial their request, time of day or week. Don?t take my word, give her a call. I HIGHLY recommen

I am so incredibly happy that we found Emelia. She is very responsive, professional, and knowledgeable. She explained everything clearly and answered all of our questions. Truly exceeded our expectations. Thank you so much for your exceptional service, Emelia. We will be returning to you again!

I had a new tax situation this year and I was unable to fileo my own. Emelia was very patient as I explained my situation and was able to explain what I needed to do and how to do better for 2020. Never an issue with communication and she has very flexible hours (I met with her on a Saturday morning). I would definitely recommend her services. Very knowledgeable.

This was my first time working with a CPA since becoming a sole-proprietor so I was very hesitant about trusting someone to work with. I'm always hesitant to work with someone new, but I'm going to keep coming back to Emilia for years to come. I'm a full-time YouTuber, musician and have several revenue sources so my tax situation is pretty complex. Regardless, Emelia was patient, respectful and even educated me on how things work and how she crunches numbers! This was an awesome experience. She works

Emelia was very professional, knowledgeable, and quick with responses to my questions. It can be nerve wrecking to get taxes done and dealing with the IRS but Emelia made it very comfortable and calming. I love the technology piece to it, where I was able to get CPA and tax support without having to leave my home. If you are in need of tax support, I would HIGHLY recommend Emelia and team.

Overall, great service and efficient. Would definitely would recommend her.

Emelia Mensa is a real professional. She gets down to business while also being personable and friendly. She is available for any questions and has an answer ready. I was confused about my taxes, business and personal, and Emelia made them easy and hassle-free. This year we didn?t get a headache from doing our taxes because Emelia made the process so simple for us. Thanks Emelia!

Emelia is extremely thorough and ask's the right questions to ensure you are in and out of her office in a reasonable time period. I've never met a CPA who makes the experience of filing returns to easy from her follow up emails to her appointment reminders. Great service!

Emelia Mensa I highly recommend. This is my first year using her services and I wish I did sooner. I used her services for personal and business taxes, Quickbooks set, business plan, and Proforma with projections, payroll setup, and advice. Before I make any business moves I contact her and she is there ready to assist. Emelia is amazing thank you.

My experience was smooth, organized and easy every step of the way.

Emelia is fantastic, accommodating, and very calm! She is working to untangle our books, and so patiently explains to me what I need to do in many areas. I love QuickBooks but there is much I don't understand (that I thought I did LOL) and at the point where I would have been frustrated with someone like me, she continues to just be calm and business-like, explaining as many times and in many ways so that I can understand. I truly value her time and knowledge and look forward to the time when her cleanup is

I'm very pleased with the work and service that Emelia provided for my family. She is very knowledgeable, honest, and resourceful. I would recommend her services to anyone looking for a more personalize way to prepare income tax.

Emeila helped me with my short term and medium term rentals, I was trying hard to find someone and Emeila is so knowledgeable, I?m so glad I found her!!

I moved across to the USA from the UK end of 2015 and sought a CPA to sort out my first year returns. After having a bad experience with the first CPA I engaged, close to me on Long Island, I came across Emelia Mensa. Emelia set about efficiently and effectively sorting out her predecessor?s mess. She took control of the situation communicating with and navigating the IRS. Emelia displayed her knowledge of the tax system, tax accounting and, most importantly, immediately put me at ease. Very trustworthy, al

I was doing a US tax return for the first time (Canadian living in US for the first time). Emelia took me on as a client and finished both my return and my wife's return incredibly quick. Process was smooth and easy. Thanks Emelia!

I most definitely was pleased with the work and service provided by Emelia. She is very professional, personable and helpful. She is such a delight to deal with and is extremely knowledgeable. Can't wait to return next year!

My experience with Emelia was nothing short of exceptional. I brought my taxes to Emelia and I was shown professional courtesy and precision in the preparation and completion of all things pertinent to my needs as someone that not only needed their taxes done, but also as a proprietor.

Emelia Mensa is an excellent CPA, easy to talk to, will answer all your questions and guide you to the right path. Very professional and knows her stuff. Thank you Emelia for helping me and my parents with our personal and business tax returns. I recommend to anyone out there having problems finding a good accountant to do their taxes, to give Emelia Mensa a try, you won't be disappointed.

Emilia was thorough and immensely helpful at organizing my business filing. I found her confident and warm in consultation and overwhelmingly knowledgeable in her realm of work. I am thankful to have found her.

Emelia was very patient with me and helped me save a good chunk of money as opposed to when I attempted to do my taxes myself. Great service and her office smells amazing

I appreciate Mrs. Mensa very much. I was new to the state needing a great deal of tax help. She took on my issues and delivered a favorable outcome. I would definitely recommend her and will continue to use her for years to come.

Spoke to Emelia on the phone to set up a meeting for a new business consult. She told me that she would look at her schedule to see when she is available that and she would call me right back with the date. I didn't get a call back but she sent a calendar reminder date to meet me the following week via text and email. The date of the appointment came and I drove all the way to her office to find it locked and no one there. I gave her a call and she answered the phone stating that she did not know she set

Superb services. Emelia and her team helped us resolved recent tax issues. We are very impressed with their dedication, professionalism and ethics. We highly recommend them!

Emelia Mensa is accurate, efficient, informed, thorough, and timely, even with difficult client demands. I recommend her accounting services without reservations.

I can?t thank Emelia and her team for all that she did to help me and so quickly too! I will definitely be back in tax season!

Emilia was very nice from the very first time we walked into her office. Explained everything in detailed. She?s super professional and straight forward, she?s definitely a keeper.

The best experience ever. Thank you very much Emilia. She was very professional, she took her time to explain listened to what I had to say. It was my first time filing my taxes. Very helpful.

Emelia is a great CPA to work with. She is patient and takes time to listen to your concerns and give you the best answers to your questions. A very helpful CPA to have for your company.

Professional, knowledgeable, efficient, friendly. I couldn't ask for more.

Emelia is straight forward and asks the right questions about your taxes which makes a client feels good. I look forward to continuing to work with her moving forward.

Emelia is very professional and personable. Fixed a few issues I had with 2018 return and advised for deductions for 2019. Highly recommend.

Emelia makes the process very easy, always responding quickly and efficiently. She has assisted me in my tax filing for two years now.

Emily is a wonderful lady ! That has been for me for years I would recommend her for anyone who wants Quality .As we say ,good work isn't cheep & cheap work ain't good !

Excellent advice and quick service. Emelia streamlined the whole LLC creation process and saved me time and considerable effort. Very professional and accommodating!

Emelia is extremely patient, knowledgeable and is very approachable and kind. She explains things in detail and always has a smile.

Emelia is awesome and really easy to work with. She made everything seem so effortless. Highly recommend her.

Incredible service quickly took the time with helping me.Im extremely satisfied with the prompt service.

My taxes were done in an efficient and orderly way. I received excellent tax consultation, which resulted in peace of mind since my tax situation was complicated. I would definitely use this service again.

I?m not one to ever leave reviews but I called to ask about getting help with cryptocurrency tax filing and was met with rudeness and overall sense of I was bothering her. When trying to explain my situation I was cut off before I could finish.

Extremely easy to work with and goes above and beyond what you would expect. She is always available and willing to help when you have any questions for her.

She was an excellent help, she answered all my questions and help me understand more about taxes. I would definitely come back next year !!

Excellent, fast and courteous service. I would recommend Emelia to anyone in need of the service she provides. Thank you!

I highly recommend Emelia. I have worked with her for over 10 years and she is extremely knowledgeable and wonderful to work with.

Ms. Mensa was very nice, knowledgeable and professional!

Great, friendly, fast service!!! She completely took the stress off and made the experience smooth and easy!!

Amazing experience!! Emelia is super efficient and a great person! Would definitely recommend!!

I was very impressed and satisfied with Emelia. She very professional and nice.

Excellent service very knowledgeable. Quick response and turn around.

Great to work with. Very easy and thorough! 10/10

Super responsive and quick. Answered all questions.

Professional,courteous,fast, friendly service. Well recommended

Very knowledgeable and excellent experience.

Shes friendly and professional

Frequently Asked Questions

What qualifications should I look for in a CPA?

Look for a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license, which ensures they’ve passed rigorous exams and meet state requirements. Check for relevant experience in your industry, additional certifications like CFA or CMA, and membership in professional organizations like the AICPA. Verify their credentials through state licensing boards.

How do I find a CPA in my area?

Use online directories like the AICPA, CPAverify, or state CPA societies. Search platforms like Yelp or Google for local CPAs with reviews. Ask for referrals from business associates, friends, or financial advisors. Local chambers of commerce can also provide recommendations.

What’s the difference between a CPA and an accountant?

A CPA is a licensed professional who has passed the CPA exam and met state requirements for education and experience. An accountant may lack this certification and could have varying levels of expertise. For complex tasks like tax audits or financial reporting, a CPA is typically more qualified.

How do I know if a CPA specializes in my needs?

Ask about their experience with your specific financial needs, such as tax preparation, small business accounting, or estate planning. Review their website or LinkedIn for case studies or client testimonials. Inquire about their client base to ensure they handle similar financial situations.

Should I check a CPA’s reviews before hiring?

Yes, reviews provide insight into a CPA’s reliability, communication, and performance. Check platforms like Google, Yelp, or the Better Business Bureau for client feedback. Look for patterns in reviews, but verify their authenticity, as some may be biased or outdated.

How can I verify a CPA’s license?

Visit your state’s Board of Accountancy website or use CPAverify.org to check a CPA’s license status. Confirm their license is active and check for any disciplinary actions or complaints. This ensures they’re in good standing and meet professional standards.

What questions should I ask during a CPA consultation?

Ask about their experience with your financial needs, fee structure, availability, and communication style. Inquire how they handle tax filings, audits, or financial planning. Ask for references or examples of similar work to assess their expertise and fit.

How much should I expect to pay for a CPA’s services?

Fees vary based on location, services, and complexity. Basic tax preparation may cost $150-$500, while business accounting or audits can range from $1,000 to $10,000+. Request a detailed fee structure upfront and compare quotes from multiple CPAs.

Can I work with a CPA remotely?

Yes, many CPAs offer remote services through secure online platforms for document sharing and virtual consultations. Ensure they use encrypted tools for data security. Remote CPAs can be effective if they understand your local tax laws or business regulations.

How do I assess a CPA’s communication skills?

During consultations, evaluate their ability to explain complex financial concepts clearly. Ask sample questions about taxes or financial strategies and note their responsiveness and clarity. Good communication ensures you understand their advice and fosters a productive relationship.

What red flags should I watch for when screening a CPA?

Beware of CPAs who guarantee specific tax refunds, lack a valid license, or have disciplinary actions on record. Avoid those with poor communication, vague fee structures, or negative reviews highlighting unethical behavior. Always verify their credentials independently.

Should I choose a CPA from a large firm or a solo practitioner?

Large firms offer more resources and specialized teams but may charge higher fees. Solo practitioners often provide personalized service and lower costs but may have limited availability. Choose based on your needs, budget, and preference for personalized attention.

How often should I meet with my CPA?

For individuals, annual meetings for tax preparation may suffice. Businesses may need quarterly or monthly check-ins for bookkeeping, tax planning, or financial reporting. Discuss your needs upfront to establish a meeting schedule that aligns with your financial goals.

Can a CPA help with both personal and business finances?

Yes, many CPAs handle both, but confirm their expertise in both areas. Ask about their experience managing personal taxes and business accounting simultaneously. Ensure they can balance both without compromising attention to your specific financial needs.

What should I do if I’m not satisfied with my CPA?

Discuss concerns directly with your CPA to resolve issues. If unresolved, check your contract for termination terms. Seek a new CPA by researching reviews, credentials, and referrals. Request your financial records to ensure a smooth transition to a new professional.

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