History of business

Maricris Shuman is the founder of SNAP Accounting Firm, LLC. She was born in Manila, Philippines, and moved to United States in 1977. Both her parents are native Filipinos. Her mother is a U.S. Citizen. In 1995, Maricris Shuman along with a former partner owned the first authorized satellite tv and cellular phone retail stores. Maricris established and handled all of the day-to-day accounting functions, hiring, and software integrations. In 1999, she co-founded the Money Pages advertising in which she created the magazine layouts, led and established the accounting structure and the accounting team. Thereafter, she was simultaneously running the businesses and opened a real estate company that renovated and managed residential and multi-family dwellings. In 2007, Maricris sold her shares in all the companies.

Since then, Maricris earned her Master of Science in Accounting & Taxation. Prior she earned a Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in Healthcare Administration. While working through completion of her academics, she worked and consulted for various companies specializing in governmental projects. She worked as a direct hire as a Financial Controller, simultaneously as an accounting consultant and led a team of 3 to 10 in Accounting, Payroll, HR, and Management Consulting. Amongst her duties were to establish an accounting department, performed strategic approach to re-structure and/or improve the financial reporting, recruited personnel, and performed system conversion for rapidly growing small, private, and publicly trade businesses. 

In 2007, having over a decade in leadership in small businesses, Maricris Shuman specialized in governmental projects, state and federal arena. Her scope of work involved costs allocations, governmental billing, proposals, bids, recruitment, certified payroll and other governmental compliance for private entities with state and federal contracts specializing in marine construction, roofing, federal construction housing projects, and Information Technology.

As a 100% owner of SNAP Accounting Firm, LLC, Maricris Shuman commits to grow the company as a contract-based company by providing Accounting Services, Payroll/HR, Recruitment/Staffing, and Management Consulting. She has a great network of established business owners that are currently performing state and federal government contracts and services. 

Her goal is to help businesses and government operate better, smarter, and more efficiently. Doing so means overseeing the projects from start to finish, while exceeding the level of expectations every step of the way. As an owner of SNAP Accounting Firm, LLC, and the firm itself, both are willing to take on the risks for successful project conclusions, by delivering outcomes in the timely manner, within the budget, and exceeding the level of customer service.