Sol Schwartz & Associates
James Buchanan is a Tax Associate at Sol Schwartz & Associates since June 2022, bringing considerable experience in accounting and production management from a prior role as an Accounting Generalist at Flowers Foods & Subsidiaries from June 2013 to June 2022. In addition to the accounting position, James held multiple supervisory roles, including Production Superintendent and Production Supervisor, where responsibilities included directing shift production operations, ensuring product safety, legality, and quality. Educational qualifications include an Associate’s Degree in Business Administration and Management from San Antonio College, obtained between 2012 and 2016, and further studies at Texas A&M University-San Antonio from 2016 to 2018.
Sol Schwartz & Associates
Established in 1980, Sol Schwartz & Associates is one of San Antonio’s largest local independent accounting firms. This growth reflects two core philosophies: treating our clients and our employees as our most valued assets, and ensuring that we are ‘right there’ for our clients, our industry, and each other. We offer a wide range of specialized services and solutions that meet the requirements of significant businesses as well as financially successful families, individuals, professionals and entrepreneurs. Our team is deeply experienced in working with complex situations, sophisticated structures and challenging demands that require an exceptional level of knowledge and analytical thinking far beyond simply plugging in numbers and filling out forms. We invest our energy in building and maintaining authentic relationships, both inside and outside the organization. Recruiting and retaining good people — bright, motivated, team-oriented and endowed with common sense — is a top priority. So is providing them ongoing learning opportunities and a knowledge-rich, enjoyable working environment. We have been recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in San Antonio every year since 2019 in an anonymous survey of our staff conducted annually through the San Antonio Business Journal. Our clients benefit from our investment in people and our continuous efforts to provide a positive, uplifting workplace culture. While interfacing with a partner, manager, senior, and junior accountant from our firm, they know that the resources of the entire company are working behind them. We actively listen to those we serve, educate ourselves about their businesses, keep pace with the dynamic legislative and regulatory changes affecting their success, and nurture mutual respect, trust and confidence. Excellence, integrity and reliability have been our guiding principles since we opened for business in 1980.