Sol Schwartz & Associates
Juann L. Blackshear currently serves as a Tax Senior at Sol Schwartz & Associates, having progressed from the roles of Tax Staff and Tax Intern since January 2020. Prior experience includes working as an Accounting Assistant in the Comptroller Office at the University of the Incarnate Word, where responsibilities involved evaluating financial statements and making journal entries. Juann also volunteered as a Tax Preparer for the Volunteer Income Tax Program (VITA) in early 2019. Educational credentials include a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of the Incarnate Word and a Master in Accounting from the same institution.
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.