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April 30th, 2010 08:36 AM ET

Atlanta CPA Advises on New Criteria to Evaluate Top 25 CPA Firms

Atlanta CPA Advises on New Criteria to Evaluate Top 25 CPA Firms

When evaluating CPA Firms from which to use for your Business, there is much to consider and evaluate. I believe this list will do much to serve as a checklist for America's Business Owners when hiring a CPA Firm:

Top 20 Criteria to Hire a CPA firm



1. Experience: Be a CPA for Thirty Years, Serve on a Mission Trip & Be a Christian.
2. Business Activities: Be a Member of your local Chamber of Commerce
3. Practical Work Experience: Serve as a Chief Financial Officer/Controller/Chief Operating Officer in addition to a CPA.
4. Published: Have Written and Published Several Books/Frequent Lecturer. Widely recognized as a Leader.
5. Skilled: Discuss Nuances of Setting up a Qualified Retirement Plan for Your Business.
6. Depth of Services: Help Your Procure and Negotiate Financing for Your Business.
7. Altruistic: Assist with Taking a Court Case to the Georgia Supreme Court to Protect the Rights of Georgia Workers. Someone who wants to make the world a better place.
8. Insightful: Discuss Business Tax Deductions Advising on Coding and Recording to Your Internal Books and Records and IRS Tax Substantiation Documentation Required.
9. Talented: Meet With You to Discus Buying or Selling a Business.
10. Diversified: Assist/Provide a Valuation for Your Closely Held Family Business.
11. Early Achiever: Pass the CPA Exam while still in college.
12. Academic Success: Go to College with a 3.0 GPA or better.
13. Award Winning: Win the Accounting Advocate of the Year Award for the State of Georgia. When others recognize the success of your CPA, you are best poised to make a wise selection.
14. Strategic Issues: Discuss Incorporating in Georgia and Entity Selection Issues.
15. Tax Advocate: Assist You With Back Taxes, IRS Representation or an Offer in Compromise.
16. Protective: Get a Law Passed in Georgia Making it a Better Place for Georgia Children to Live. Find a CPA who looks after your money and your livelihood as he does your own.
17. Wise: Rely on Decades of Work Experience to Ensure That You Pay Only Your Lowest Legal Possible Tax.
18. Insightful: Discuss Your Long Term Retirement Plan.
19. Decades of Experience: Serve as a Virtual CFO/Controller for You and Your Business.
20. Personable: Ask You How You Feel.

John Dillard, CPA of His CPA, PC (A Duluth, GA CPA firm) 1940 Woods River Lane, Duluth, GA 30097 Phone 770-814-9304 http://www.hiscpa.com / http://www.john-dillard.com/ 

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