Deborah Daniel, CPA

Deborah Daniel is the founder and president of Charter Accounting & Tax Service, a full-service CPA firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, serving clients nationwide. As the first person in her family to graduate from college, Deborah's path was anything but conventional: just a few years into her corporate career, she recognized that working for someone else would always cap her potential, especially as a woman in finance nearly four decades ago. Encouraged by her husband to put her newly earned CPA credential to use, she left the corporate world in her twenties and launched her own firm before she had even completed a single tax return, learning the practical side of the business through an H&R Block training course. From that unconventional start, she has gone on to acquire and grow roughly six or seven smaller practices, building Charter Accounting into the firm it is today and accumulating over three decades of hands-on experience in tax planning, business consulting, and financial coaching.
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Throughout her career preparing taxes for individuals and families, Deborah noticed a recurring pattern: even as women became equal earners, primary breadwinners, or successful entrepreneurs in their own right, many still ceded control over their financial decisions to husbands, fathers, or brothers. That observation sparked a mission that has now defined the past twenty years of her work — closing what she describes as the gap in women's financial intelligence, or "SQ." She channeled this passion into Women's Wealth Secrets, a movement and forthcoming book built around using entrepreneurship as a tool for financial empowerment. An admitted "entrepreneurial junkie," Deborah has owned and operated businesses well beyond accounting, including a wellness center and an insurance agency, and has partnered on numerous other ventures, all while staying anchored to her core practice for more than thirty years. That blend of operational know-how and financial expertise now fuels a growing community of women seeking financial confidence, delivered through retreats, an educational money course, and her podcast, "Money Without Limits," on the eWN Podcast Network.
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Deborah's contributions have earned her recognition as a co-author of a compilation book that reached number-one bestseller status in three Amazon categories, alongside other influential voices writing on women and money. She is also the author of "100 Innovative Ways to Make More Profit" and is preparing to release her solo book this summer, distilling 35 years of financial and entrepreneurial wisdom for her readers. Beyond her business achievements, Deborah is active in organizations supporting women in business, including ABWA and the eWomen Network, where she served as Managing Director of the Atlanta chapter for nearly seven years. She also gives back to her community as a financial supporter of the Drake House and various women's sports charities in Atlanta. Guided by the belief that "when one of us prospers, we all do," Deborah remains committed to changing the conversation around money — particularly for women — through education, ownership, and long-term financial confidence.