Award-Winning Accounting Tutors
serving Nashville, TN

I am a recent graduate of Vanderbilt University where I received a BS in Human and Organizational Development. I also minored in Quantitative Methods and have a passion for statistics. I have spent time living in France and England and love to travel. My time abroad has cultivated a love of language and writing and how to use academic tools in order to create opportunities in life beyond the classroom. I am excited about helping students achieve their academic and personal goals.

I am a senior at Vanderbilt University, studying Cognitive Studies and Business. I am working towards becoming a therapist and I love working with students especially through academic struggles. I used Varsity Tutors throughout high school myself and it made a significant difference to my SAT score. From that experience, I am inspired to help other students reach their academic goals, just like I reached mine! I specialize in SAT prep, AP Literature and AP Language, elementary to college level Mandarin.

I am currently doing a PhD in Economics from Vanderbilt University, and have a lot of experience teaching economics and math. I also have a master's degree in Public Policy from the University of Maryland. I live in Nashville with my family. When I'm not studying, I enjoy swimming, reading, chess, skating and chilling.

I am committed to helping students reach their full potential.

I'm also a pretty outdoorsy guy, so one of my favorite things to do is to go out to a rock climbing site with some friends and do some rock climbing there or go off road and just go nature exploring. I also like having abstract conversations amongst topics like philosophical ethics, morality, and what is consciousness.

I am a motivated and enthusiastic tutor with over 20 years of experience in tutoring students of all different ages. I have served as everything from a full-time classroom teacher, to a small group mentor, to a one-on-one tutor. I have mentored virtually every age learner, from Pre-K to adult, and have experience with everything from home-education to private and parochial schools to public school education.

Matthew's MBA and JD training both required reading and interpreting financial statements — revenue recognition, expense classification, balance sheet structure — which means he learned accounting as a tool for making business and legal arguments, not just as an academic exercise. He teaches the accounting cycle by connecting each entry to the decision it ultimately informs, whether that's a manager evaluating profitability or an attorney reviewing a company's financials.

I'm currently a student at Northeastern University. Originally from Tennessee, I attended an all-male boarding and day school for high school, and was given a lot of opportunities to pursue advanced coursework and opportunities that weren't available to 99% of students in the area. As a result, I've joined Varsity Tutors as an effort to give back and try to help students get excited about learning various subjects, employing many of the methods that allowed me to succeed. While I tutor a wide range of subjects, I am most passionate about standardized test prep, math (all levels), writing, and economics.

I am a graduate of Arizona State University where I earned my Masters in Emergency Management/Homeland Security and my Bachelors in Psychology. I love working with students and watching their passion grow for learning as they start to understand new concepts. I have experience in building individual lesson plans, as well as experience teaching in a classroom. I am excited to get to know you and help you on the road to academic success!

I'm from New Jersey and of Italian decent, so I naturally love cooking and all things pizza. My favorite childhood book is The Giver by Lois Lowry, and favorite high school class was physics (rockets, easy winner). I enjoy playing guitar and ride my bicycle on a sunny day.

Jon's finance degree from UGA included extensive coursework in accounting fundamentals, from journal entries and T-accounts through financial statement preparation. He breaks down the logic behind debits and credits so the rules feel intuitive rather than arbitrary, which makes adjusting entries and closing processes far easier to retain.

I am a recent graduate of the University of South Carolina with degrees in International Business and Accounting with a minor in German.

Debits, credits, and the accounting equation click faster when someone can explain the logic behind them — not just the rules. Valerie holds an MBA and a Florida certification in Business Education, and she breaks down journal entries, trial balances, and adjusting entries by connecting each step to the bigger picture of how financial statements actually come together.

I am qualified to tutor many subjects, my favorite subject by far is math, specifically calculus. Math is a subject almost universally hated, and I believe that is mainly due to the narrow way in which it is taught. I have ADHD, and I often don't understand things the first time they are explained to me, meaning over the years I have had to figure out different ways of looking at information. Oftentimes, all a student needs is for something to be explained in a different way, and I love watching people finally understand a concept. Everyone learns differently, but everyone can learn.

Asher earned his Bachelor of Accountancy from Penn State with all 150 CPA-track credits completed in four years, plus two professional internships. He digs into the concepts that trip students up most — journal entries, adjusting entries, the full accounting cycle, and financial statement preparation — making the logic behind debits and credits click rather than feel like arbitrary rules.

Holding a Master of Science in Accounting, Sam digs into the logic behind debits and credits, journal entries, and financial statement preparation rather than treating them as rules to memorize. He walks through the full accounting cycle — from trial balance adjustments to closing entries — so students understand how each step feeds the next. That conceptual grounding makes advanced topics like depreciation methods and inventory valuation click faster.

An MBA in International Business from Thunderbird gave Spencer hands-on exposure to financial reporting, cost analysis, and the accounting frameworks that underpin global business decisions. He translates that cross-disciplinary perspective into clear explanations of the accounting cycle — walking through how each transaction flows from journal entry to financial statement so the process makes sense as a connected system. Rated 4.9 by students.

Jenna's finance curriculum at Villanova included a deep dive into financial accounting — journal entries, T-accounts, adjusting entries, and building statements from the trial balance up. She walks through the logic of double-entry bookkeeping so that debits and credits stop feeling like arbitrary rules and start making intuitive sense.

Irene treats accounting as applied math — because that's exactly what it is. Her PhD in mathematics gives her a precise way of explaining debits and credits, journal entries, and the logic behind the accounting equation that clicks for students who need more than "just follow the rules."

Balance sheets and income statements are really just structured storytelling about where money went — but the debits-and-credits logic trips up most beginners. Idara's finance industry background means she's worked with these statements professionally, and she walks students through journal entries, T-accounts, and the accounting equation with concrete business scenarios rather than abstract rules.

Holding a diploma in accounting on top of his economics degree, Stuart brings both the theoretical framework and the practical detail that financial and managerial accounting courses demand. He digs into journal entries, T-accounts, and the full accounting cycle, making sure students understand why debits and credits balance — not just that they do.

Gerard's MBA coursework covered the financial reporting and analysis side of business, giving him a practical lens on topics like income statements, cost behavior, and managerial accounting decisions. He teaches accounting as a decision-making tool — connecting ledger work back to the business questions it's designed to answer, which keeps the material from feeling like rote number-shuffling.