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Dec. 13, 2010-Jan. 10, 2011 | accounting today

The 2010 Best Accounting Firms to Work For

Small firms (15-49 employees)

Rank Firm Headquarters Staff 1;Johnson Jacobson Wilcox;Las Vegas;22 2;Fulcrum Inquiry;Los Angeles;16 3;Pittman & Brooks Portland, Ore.;22 4;Wessel & Co.;Johnstown, Pa.;40 5;Rodman & Rodman;Newton, Mass.;15 6;Berlin, Ramos & Co. Rockville, Md.;43 7;Dunton & Associates Springfield, Mo.;23 8;PSK Arlington, Texas;40 9;E. Cohen and Co. CPAs;Rockville, Md.;28 10;Riney Hancock CPAs;Owensboro, Ky.;30 11;Garcia, Espinosa, Miyares & Co.;Coral Gables, Fla.;15 12;Bartlett, Pringle & Wolf Santa Barbara, Calif.;48 13;Anglin Reichmann Snellgrove & Armstrong;Huntsville, Ala.;29 14;Homes, Lowry, Horn & Johnson Ltd.;Fairfax, Va.;32 15;GBH CPAs;Houston;18 16;Kreinces Rollins & Shanker Rochelle Park, N.J.;17 17;LMGW CPAs Saratoga, Calif.;20 18;Hoyman Dobson;Melbourne, Fla.;41 19;Petrinovich Pugh & Co. San Jose, Calif.;44 20;The Whitlock Co.;Springfield, Mo.;31 21;Lanigan, Ryan, Malcolm & Doyle;Gaithersburg, Md.;29 22;Mahoney Ulbrich Christiansen & Russ;St. Paul, Minn.;44 23;Onisko & Scholz CPAs;Long Beach, Calif.;17 24;Walter & Shuffain;Boston;39 25;Deemer Dana & Froehle Savannah, Ga.;48 26;Bartolomei Pucciarelli Lawrenceville, N.J.;21 27;Martin Starnes & Associates CPAs;Hickory, N.C.;42 28;Biscotti, Toback & Co. CPAs;Garden City, N. Y.;35 29;Cowan Bolduc Doherty North Andover, Mass.;16 30;Johanson & Yau Accountancy Corp.;San Jose, Calif.;28 31;DeLeon & Stang CPAs & Advisors;Gaithersburg, Md.;29 32;May & Co. Vicksburg, Miss.;31 33;Payne, Nickles & Co.;Norwalk, Ohio;30 34;Whipple Wood CPAs;Littleton, Colo.;20 35;Smith Leonard High Point, N.C.;35 36;Covenant Consulting Group Birmingham, Ala.;20 37;Ennis Pellum & Associates CPAs;Jacksonville, Fla.;32 38;Williams Benator & Libby Atlanta;34 39;Swindoll, Janzen, Hawk & Loyd;McPherson, Kan.;23 40;SGA Group Clark, N.J.;29 41;Mark Bailey & Co.;Reno, Nev.;19 42;Sample and Bailey CPAs;Fort Collins, Colo.;40 43;Thomas York San Ramon, Calif.;15 44;Ganze & Co.;Napa, Calif.;18 45;Layton Layton & Tobler Las Vegas;17

New hires —Turnover %— Onboard in last year Vol. Invol. hours

2 4 11 80 219 08 0 0 0 120 5 3 0 40 1 0 28 1 0 08 7 8 0 16 3 18 0 24 3 13 0 40 0 4 08

3 5 02 12 5 0 16

1 3 35 0 3 6 40 7 5 30 40 2 0 7 37 1 1 0 12 3 5 08 0 2 4 20 3 9 0 20 2 6 6 24 3 2 7 24 0 0 08 0 2 17 40 1 2 15 40 1 0 0 16 1 8 0 40 2 1 0 24 4 6 6 120 0 3 0 40 0 0 0 40

1 10 16 5 NA 0 3 4

3 0 0 40 3 15 0 16 2 6 65 2 0 13 60 4 5 84 3 4 4 16 0 0 0 25 0 0 6 16 618 08 4 11 11 4 0 0 0 15 1 12 12 16

Training
hours
80
80
50
80
175
50
80
97
40
45+
40
160
30
45
40
40
36
60
42
60
40
80
40
40
40
40
100
40
60
100
40
40
29
60
50
40
40

40-50 50 40 75 50 40 56 40

Review(s)
per year
2+
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
2+
1
2
2
1
2
1
2
2
2+
1
2
1
1
2
2
2
1
2
1
2
1
2
2+
1
2
2
1
1
AN
1
2+
1
1

Chief executive
Gary Johnson
David Nolte
Randa Brooks
Robert Eyer
Steven Rodman
R. Bruce Buchanan
William Dunton
Rusty Pickens
Eric Cohen
Joseph Hancock
Leonardo Miyares
Scott Hadley
Gary Anglin
Roger Overton
David Grossman
Brad Kreinces
Keith Plottel
Charles Hoyman
Marc Parkinson
David Myers
Frank Lanigan
John Ries
Paul Scholz
Craig Shuffain
John Matthews
James Bartolomei
Victoria Martin
Louis Biscotti
Stephen Doherty
Frederick Leonard
Allen DeLeon
John Paris
Carl McGookey
Richard Whipple
Ken Smith
Michael McCraw
Ron Pellum
Bruce Benator
Kyle Hawk
Thomas Angelo
Mark Bailey
Roger Sample
Glen Thomas
Anthony Ganze
Donald Layton

Midsized firms (50-249 employees)

Chief executive Edward Guttenplan William Troup Don Murphy David Roberts H. Phillip Moore

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Notes: Turnover — voluntary and involuntary percentages are from the last fiscal year, and have been rounded to whole numbers; involuntary turnover is as a percent full-time permanent, hourly or salaried employees, and due to layoffs or workforce reductions. Onboard hours — average number of hours a new hire spends in orientiation. Training hours — average number of annual training and development hours received per employee. Review(s) per year — frequency of employee appraisals. AN = As needed.