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Businesses are less likely to go out of business with a HR partnership.
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Who We Are
Every company is unique, and successful businesses thrive by adapting to their environments. Through our HR management, insurance, and employee administration services, Lingo HR has created flexible business solutions that will meet your company’s individual needs. Our HR outsourcing solution in particular will optimize your people, processes, and systems, allowing you to move freely between human resource services as your business evolves.
Outsourcing Solutions & Company Goals
Lingo HR enables small and mid-sized businesses to cost-effectively outsource human resources, accounting, payroll, bookkeeping and workers’ compensation functions. In this way, a company is able to focus on its core competencies; enabling the firm to not only survive—but thrive—in today’s challenging business climate.
Every company is unique, and successful businesses thrive by adapting to their environments. Through our HR management, insurance, and employee administration services, Lingo HR has created flexible business solutions that will meet your company’s individual needs. Our HR outsourcing solution in particular will optimize your people, processes, and systems, allowing you to move freely between human resource services as your business evolves.
Outsourcing Solutions & Company Goals
Lingo HR enables small and mid-sized businesses to cost-effectively outsource human resources, accounting, payroll, bookkeeping and workers’ compensation functions. In this way, a company is able to focus on its core competencies; enabling the firm to not only survive—but thrive—in today’s challenging business climate.
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Why work with Lingo HR Accounting... Meet our Co-Founders
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Why work with Lingo HR Accounting…
Meet one of our Co-Founders: Armando Salgado Armando Salgado’s life as an entrepreneur and community service advocate began with the recognition of the point where the Spanish-speaking English-speaking communities intersected and the need for Latino leadership was missing. He launched LingoDocs Marketing (lingodocs.com) in 2006 to bridge both business communities, giving them the opportunity to double their markets.
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Through LingoDocs Marketing, Armando provides a variety of traditional marketing services such as publishing the only bilingual (English/Spanish) magazine in Omaha (bilingualnebraska.com), printing, signage, apparel, web development, graphic design, translation services, virtual services, and more. Armando lends a unique twist of specializations to helping clients grow their business by overcoming the language, cultural, and business barriers, both in English and in Spanish. Armando is Co-Founder of Lingo HR Accounting.
This company enables small and mid-sized businesses to cost-effectively outsource human resources, accounting, payroll, bookkeeping and workers’ compensation. Armando is also the founder of USMEX Express (usmexexpress.com), which provides domestic and international shipping services, money transfers, communications/internet, and more. |
Armando has over 15 years of experience in the Real Estate business, owning and managing Zianya Properties LLC, as well as MultiLevel Contractors, Armando's youngest company of 3 years.
Armando earned a double major in International Studies and Spanish from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. During and after his graduation from UNO, Armando worked a little over 10 years in the Non-Profit sector in creating programs for all ages, infrastructure creation, and fundraising. Armando is also an adjunct instructor at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, teaching business and construction to small business owners in both English and Spanish, providing topics that assist the participants in starting their own business, managing and sustaining their business. Over 150 Latino owned companies have formed with Armando’s help in the past 5 years. |
Armando furthers his mission of breaking down barriers and promoting business, language and cultural awareness and doing community service through various community organization and holding several board positions in the Omaha, Nebraska area, including Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, OneWorld Community Health Center, Heartland Workforce Solutions, Futuro Latino Fund, Criminal Justice Advisory, and Cinco de Mayo Festival, among others. Armando was born in Mexico, together with his mother and father, migrated to the U.S. at the age of 6 and as many Latino families, they worked and contributed to the U.S. society to earn their piece of the American dream.
Armando is married to his wonderful and supportive wife and Realtor, Yamy Salgado, (from the Dominican Republic via New York City) and has 2 beautiful children, Zianya (15) and Zuriel (8). |
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Why work with Lingo HR Accounting…
Chris Lowry Co-Founder In comparison to most Certified Professional Accountants, I would say that I took the back way into the profession. Your typical CPA graduates with an accounting or masters accounting degree and starts out at Big 4 or local public accounting firm. From there they get they cut their teeth in audit, tax, or both while they decide whether or not they want to take the CPA exam.
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If they choose not to take the exam, then they usually work themselves out of the public sector and into the private sector. I graduated from the University of Nebraska with business degree with an emphasis in finance and took a job as first a payroll processor and then as an underwriter at a payroll and workers compensation company. Quickly I realized that this was not the path I wanted to go down and started looking options to continue my education. I decided that accounting and being a CPA in particular was the route I wanted to take. Since I didn’t have an accounting degree, I knew I needed to differentiate myself from the competition so I went back to school to get a masters in accounting while working continuing to work full time. Once I accumulated enough hours to sit for the four parts of the exam, I started studying on my own and passed the exam within the year. My plan worked as once I had passed the exam, I was able to land interviews and eventually landed my first public accounting position so that I could start meeting the experience portion of the CPA requirements.
My experience at a large company to start off my career guided me in my search for my first accounting job. I wanted to work at a smaller firm, where I felt I fit better and would make more of an impact. |
I worked for a small audit and tax firm that did audits and reviews of companies ranging from $1 million in assets to $500 million in assets. Being a small firm, we typically did the entire engagement on our own. Having passed the CPA exam set me on a path to grow quickly at this firm and shortly after my first year I started reviewing others workpapers before final approval from the audit partner. Every week was a new experience so I learned greatly from all of the businesses I audited as well as how organization, processes, and planning leads to an efficient audit program. In addition to the audit work I would help out in our tax practice preparing non-profit, business, and individual tax returns during the first four months of the year. Eventually the bi-weekly out of town travel combined with a growing family played a significant part in my decision to leave the audit firm after five years and pursue a position in the private sector as a controller.
My time as a controller has allowed me to grow my professional capabilities and learn so many valuable lessons. I found an enterprise level business that I felt was a good fit for me and put me on a career path to be a CFO, which was the career path I wanted to achieve at the time. They were growing at a fast rate and needed someone to clean up the accounting processes and procedures as well as set them on a path to expediate their growth rate. |
The lessons learned at my audit firm allowed me to quickly streamline my accounting responsibilities into a well-oiled machine. As the only finance and administration person on staff I completed all of the past looking (bookkeeping, controller) duties as well as forward looking duties (CFO). Unfortunately, I quickly realized that while our company was incredibly successful as an Inc5000 fastest growing company it simply could not justify the capabilities of a full-time accountant, let alone a full time CPA or CFO. As a result, I started taking on other responsibilities such as digital marketing, dispatching, sales management, etc to help fill my time and drive what I wanted to earn. It took longer I would have liked but I finally realized that rather than take on additional roles to fill my time I would be better served scaling down my role and replicating at similar companies. My goal for Lingo HR Accounting is to be able to provide small to mid-sized businesses with the expertise of a CPA to help free up their time to grow their business and enjoy life, give them peace of mind that their financial information is correct and protected in case of audit, and to reduce overhead/save on training by having an outsourced accounting solution.
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