Since 1988, Empire Accounting Solutions has helped fuel the growth of businesses throughout New York’s Capital Region and beyond. We remove the day-to-day burdens of bookkeeping, accounting and financial reporting, and often assume the role of CFO/Controller for our client businesses. We also provide high net worth individuals with cash flow management and on-time bill paying services.

Our founder and president, Diane Muccigrosso, has more than 30 years of accounting and financial management experience. Prior to forming Empire Accounting Solutions, Diane worked in the hospitality industry. Over the years, Diane and her staff have applied their expertise to a variety of organizations with an array of challenges and opportunities. Our team has assisted in the growth of companies in the hospitality industry, law, non profit, manufacturing, and technology industries. For example, in 2001, Empire began working with a local tech start-up that sprung out of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute business incubator. The following year, this semiconductor firm moved its headquarters to South Carolina. Diane and her team have provided outsourced accounting and CFO services to this firm for the past nine years. They have witnessed the growth of this firm from one employee to over 40 employees and what is now a multi-million dollar company.

Today, Empire Accounting Solutions is at the forefront of Next Generation Accounting, which harnesses the power of the Internet to provide clients with a secure, paperless workflow that can be accessed anytime, from anywhere in the world.

Staff

Diane Muccigrosso

Diane is President of Empire Accounting Solutions. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration and an MBA from the University at Albany. She worked in the hospitality industry in New Jersey, Maryland and Colorado gaining great accounting experience at Marriott, Holiday Inn and Fairmont Hotels.

In 1988, Diane moved back east to begin her consulting firm. Fast forward more than twenty years and many clients later, Diane and her team have worked with a variety of clients in the for profit, non profit and entrepreneurial arenas providing outsourced CFO and bookkeeping services. She has gained broad based experience and an understanding of the demands on all business owners. As such, she and her staff have developed accounting systems, procedures and processes to facilitate profitability and success for each client.

Diane’s two dogs are the office mascots. Bella, a high energy Weimaraner and Oliver, a stocky short-legged Beagle mix and Alabama transplant, keep her very busy and are a source of much entertainment (most of the time).

Mary Grace Roth

Mary Grace is Empire Accounting Solutions’ part-time bookkeeper. She is continuing her education working towards a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting at Empire State College. Mary Grace has more than 20 years of bookkeeping experience, having worked for a variety of companies here in the Capital District as well as in her hometown of Utica, New York.

Mary Grace loves her horses and is an avid baker. She has an infectious laugh and lives up to her name with her graceful manner. She lives locally with her husband Sidney and their lovely cat, Tara.

Chang Li

Chang is Empire Accounting Solutions’ newest employee. She earned her PHD in Materials Science in China, and continued to work as a researcher while living in Japan. Due to Chang’s great enthusiasm for the business world, she decided to return to school, and earned her Master’s Degree in Accounting at the University at Albany in 2011. Chang resides in Guilderland with her husband, and cute and lovable son. She spends most of her free time outside in her garden, when weather allows.