An Engineer Who Became a CPA — and Never Stopped Thinking Like One.
Vladimir Raskin is a Washington CPA serving small and midsize businesses across the greater Seattle area, in English and Russian.
Credentials & focus
- Washington State CPA license
- Master's degree, Professional Accountancy — Central Washington University (with honors, 2003)
- Master's degree, Engineering — Moscow Auto-Mechanical Institute
- Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (status to be verified)
- Services delivered in English and Russian
- Software developers, internet startups, retail, adult family homes, real estate, insurance agencies
- E-2 investment financial documentation, coordinated with immigration counsel
Two educations, one way of thinking
Vladimir graduated from the Moscow Auto-Mechanical Institute with a Master's degree in Engineering. Engineering is the study of load, tolerance, and failure: what a structure can carry, where it bends, and what happens the moment an assumption turns out to be wrong.
In 2003 he graduated with honors from Central Washington University with a Master's degree in Professional Accountancy. He holds a Washington State CPA license and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants — membership status to be confirmed as current before publication.
Arriving in 1994, and starting again
Vladimir moved to the United States in 1994. He knows the specific work of rebuilding a professional life in a new country: new language, new credentials, new rules, and a great deal of paperwork that nobody explains.
That experience is not a footnote in his biography — it is why immigrant business owners across greater Seattle end up in his office, and why he built a practice where the whole conversation can happen in Russian if that is easier.
How the engineering shows up in the accounting
Vladimir traces causes rather than symptoms. A late filing, a surprise tax bill, or an IRS notice is rarely the problem; it is the visible end of something structural — the wrong entity, an unmonitored payroll obligation, a sales-tax assumption nobody rechecked, a chart of accounts that stopped matching the business two years ago.
So the work starts with the system: how revenue is earned, how it is recorded, who touches it, and where it can quietly break. Then the numbers get reliable, and only then are they worth planning around.
A proactive philosophy
Vladimir believes in a proactive approach to anticipate and eliminate tax problems, accounting difficulties, and legal complications. As a trusted advisor, his goal is to provide useful, proven strategies so clients can make informed decisions and focus on the success of their business.
Clients rely on him to manage accounting for small and midsize businesses, solve IRS problems and prevent future difficulties, plan and manage start-up financials, and reduce tax liability for individuals and businesses.
Meet with Vladimir directly.
You will not be handed off to a junior associate. The CPA who reviews your situation is the CPA who does the work.
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