Tony, who is the CEO of Accounting Freedom, Ltd., is a Certified Public Accountant has a Masters Degree in Taxation from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. Tony is also the co-owner and CEO of two additional companies, Payroll Specialists, Inc., which specializes in helping small businesses with all of their payroll needs, and Accountants Solutions, Inc., a software company with develops software to help accountants run their firms more profitably. Tony is also an accomplished writer. he has co-authored "The Lean, Mean,Business Machine", and is contributing author for the book “Six Steps to Small Business Success”. He is an accomplished speaker and has presented numerous seminars over the past three decades including “How to run a profitable small business”, How to start a profitable small business”, “Debt free and prosperous living”, along with numerous seminars on all aspects of running a profitable accounting firm at the bi-annual conferences of the Professional Association of Small Business Accountants.