January 13, 2026

TXCPA Thanks Our 2025-2026 Professional Group Membership Program Participants!

We appreciate all the firms and organizations that participated in TXCPA’s Professional Group Membership program this year. Your renewals and new activations for 2025–2026 help strengthen the fabric of our membership community.

Ready to simplify renewals and boost the value your team receives? Our group billing option does both. Connect with Kristie Estrada, Manager of Membership Operations and Acquisition, at kestrada@tx.cpa or 800-428-0272, ext. 8560, to get started.

A.J. Brune & Associates PLLC
ABIP PC
Adami, Lindsey & Company
Adamson & Company LLC
ADKF PC
Albarado and Friery LLC
Alexander Lankford & Hiers CPAs Inc
Allman & Associates Inc
Anderson Spector & Company PC
Anderson, Johns, Yao & Davis CPAs, P.C.
Andre + Associates PC
Aprio
Armanino
Armstrong Backus & Co LLP
Armstrong Vaughan & Assoc PC
Arnold Walker Arnold & Co PC
Asel & Associates PLLC
Atchley & Associates LLP
ATKG LLP
B Hensley & Co LLC
Bailes & Co PC
Bankler Partners LC
Barg & Henson CPAs PLLC
Barrett & Thomas PC
Barry & Capers PC
BC&V Advisors + CPAs PLLC
BDO USA LLP
Beaird Harris & Co PC
Beal & Wilkes PC
Beasley Mitchell & Co
Benton Duroy & Ivey PC
Bland Garvey PC
Blazek & Vetterling
Bock & Associates LLP
Bolinger Segars Gilbert & Moss LLP
Bolton Sullivan Taylor & Weber CPAs
Brammer Begnaud & Lattimore CPAs
Brewer Eyeington Patout & Co
Bright & Bright LLP
Britts & Associates LLP
Brockway Gersbach Franklin & Niemeier PC
Brown Graham & Company PC
Brunott CPA & Associates, LLC
Bryant & Welborn LLP CPAs
Buckley & Associates PC
Bumgardner Morrison & Company LLP
Burchell Denson & Morrison LLC
Burds Reed & Mercer PC
Burkhart Peterson & Associates PLLC
Burkhart Peterson & Co PLLC
Burton McCumber & Longoria LLP
Butterworth & Macias PC
BWC & Associates Inc
Calhoun Thomson & Matza LLP
Calloway Stinson and Company
Candy & Schonwald
Cantrell & Associates PC
Canutillo Independent School District
Carameros & Rawls
Carpenter & Langford, PC
Carr Riggs & Ingram LLC
Carson Platt
Castle & Company CPAs PLLC
Cavett Turner & Wyble LLP
CB&C CPA PC
CD Bradshaw & Associates PC
Cherry Bekaert LLP
Chilton Wilcox & Fortenberry
City of Lubbock
CLA
CMMS CPAs & Advisors
Coleman Horton & Company LLP
Collier Johnson & Woods PC
Colonial Savings FA
Conder Kletchka & Associates PLLC
Condley and Company LLP
Cook Parker and Associates LLC
Crawford Carter & Durbin LLC
Croucher Hackett Calleros & Co PC
Crowe LLP
CrownQuest Operating LLC
Cuellar Morales Gonzalez & Co PLLC
D Williams & Co PC
Daniel H Braman Jr Estate
Daniels & Erickson PC
Davidson Freedle Espenhover & Overby
Delta Centrifugal Corporation
Desroches Partners LLP
Doeren Mayhew
Dorchester Minerals LP
Durbin & Company LLP
Eckert & Company LLP
Edgar Kiker & Cross PC
Edgin Parkman Fleming & Fleming PC
EEPB PC
Eide Bailly LLP
EisnerAmper LLP
Erickson Demel & Associates PLLC
Estate of Thomas O'Connor
EW Tax and Valuation Group LLP
Exencial Wealth Advisors
Faske Lay & Co LLP
Fasken Oil & Ranch Ltd
Fayez Sarofim & Co
First National Bank Texas
Fitts Roberts Kolkhorst & Co PC
FMW PC
Folsom Gardner Goodwyn McAlister Rooney Stewart & Welky PLLC
Forvis Mazars, LLP
Fox Byrd & Company PC
Freemon Shapard & Story
Frierson Sola Simonton & Kutac PLLC
Gage & Company CPAs LLP
Gant McGee & Baber PC
Garza & Morales LC
Garza/Gonzalez & Associates LLC
Gaskill Pharis & Pharis LLP
George Morgan & Sneed PC
Gibson Ruddock Patterson LLC
Gilliam Wharram & Co PC
Glenn Prather & Co
Goff & Herrington PC
Goldman Hunt & Notz LLP
Gollob Morgan Peddy PC
Goodman Financial Corporation
Gowland Morales & Smith PLLC
Green Curtis Daley CPAs PLLC
Grier Reeves & Lawley PC
Guinn Smith & Company Inc
Hahn & Oldham PC
Ham Langston & Brezina LLP
Hampton Brown & Associates PC
Harold W Shelburne CPA
Harper & Pearson Company PC
Harrison Waldrop & Uherek LLP
Hartman Wanzor McNamara LLP
Haynie & Company
Heard McElroy and Vestal, LLC
Henry & Peters PC
Hess & Rohmer PC
HM&M
Hoak & Thorp CPAs PC
Holtman Wilson & Terrell PC
Horne LLP
Houston Methodist Hospital
Howard Cunningham Houchin & Turner LLP
HRSS LLP
Hudgins Crosier Sumpter PC
Hupp Bauer Hanson & Lewis
Hurd Enterprises Ltd
Huselton Morgan & Maultsby PC
Ingram Wallis & Co PC
J and K CPA LLC
Jeffery A Davidson CPA PC
Jenna M. Hopkins
Jennings Hawley & Co PC
JLK Rosenberger
John R Johnson PC
Johnson & Sheldon PLLC
Johnson Granado & Company PC
Jones Hay Marschall & McKinney PC
JRBT, PC
JTaylor & Associates LLC
KCMD LLP
Keller & Associates CPAs PLLC
Kelsey-Seybold Clinic
KHA Accountants PLLC
Kimbell Art Foundation
Kimbell Art Museum
Kimberling McFarland and Associates PC
KM&L LLC
Knuckols Duvall Hallum & Co PC
Lain Faulkner & Company PC
Lamar University School of Accounting Finance & Economics
Lane Gorman Trubitt LLC
Lange Poteet & Co LLP
LaPorte CPAs & Business Advisors
Lauterbach Borschow & Company PC
Lawrence Blackburn Meek Maxey & Co
Lemert Holder Ohm PLLC
Lewis Kaufman Reid Stukey Gattis & Co PC
Lott Vernon & Co. PC
LPT CPAs and Advisors PLLC
LSK CPAs PLLC
M & K CPAs
M2G Ventures LLC
Maddox Thomson & Associates PC
Marcum LLP
Martinez Rosario & Company LLP
Mason Warner & Company PC
Massey Itschner & Co PC
Matthew J. Milks
Maxwell Locke & Ritter LLP
Mays & Associates PLLC
Mazur & Vernon
MB Group LLC
McCall Gibson Swedlund Barfoot Ellis PLLC
McClanahan and Holmes, LLP
McIlvain & Associates LLC
McMahon Vinson & Hubbard LLP
Meador & Jones LLP
Meadows Collier Reed Cousins Crouch & Ungerman LLP
Melton & Melton LLP
Mesch PLLC
Mewbourne Oil Company
Meyers Marsh & Mannon CPAs
Mohle Adams LLP
Moore Camp Phillips & Patterson  LLP
Mosher Seifert + Co, PC
Moss Adams LLP
MUFG Capital Analytics LLC
MWH Group PC
Neffendorf & Blocker PC
Nelda C & HJ Lutcher Stark Foundation
Newton Newton Downs & Blair PC
Nommensen Williams Sticker & Doyle PC
Okafor & Associates PC
Oliver Rainey & Wojtek LLP
Oroian Guest & Little PC
Orta & Choate PC
Pannell Kerr Forster of Texas PC
Pattillo Brown & Hill LLP
Pelican Energy Partners LP
Pena Briones McDaniel & Co PC
Perkins Dexter Sinopoli & Hamm PC
Perry D Reed & Company
Petro Hunt LLC
Plains State Bank
PriceKubecka PLLC
Prothro Wilhelmi & Co PLLC
PSK LLP
PYCO Industries Inc
R.A.M. CPA PLLC
Rally Credit Union
Ramdas Accounting
Randolph-Brooks Federal Credit Union
Ratliff & Associates CPAs PC
Raven A Herron PC
RBMS LLP
Redfield Miller & White LLP
Reynolds & Franke PC
Richard A. Jones
Robison Johnston & Patton LLP
Roloff Hnatek and Co LLP
Ron Kirby CPA
RSM US LLP
Rutherford Taylor & Company PC
Samantha N. Keuer
Saville CPAs & Advisors LLC
SBNG PC
Scalco Johnson Leahy & Dudek CPAs LLC
Schriber Springer & Cockburn LLP
Seale & Associates PC
Seidel Schroeder & Company
Shelton Mead & Shelton CPAs
Shenandoah Petroleum Corporation
Snow Garrett Williams
Sol Schwartz & Associates PC
Sommerville & Associates PC
Southside Bank
Spies Kneese & Bailey LLC
Spillar Mitcham Eaton & Bicknell LLP
Sproles Woodard LLP
Squyres & Co LLP
SST Accountants & Consultants
Stallop Compton & Robillard PLLC
Stanley C. Weinstein
Star of Hope Mission
Stedman West Interests Inc
Stephen F Austin State University College of Business
Stewart Martin Dudley & Webb PC
Stovall Grandey & Allen LLP
Strickler & Prieto LLP
Sutton Frost Cary LLP
Swank Salch & Henderson PC
SWBC PEO
T J Hayes & Co PLLC
TETCO, Inc.
Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Cos
Texas Health Resources
TG Advisors PLLC
The Blum Firm PC
The Bonadio Group
The CJ CPA Group, PLLC
The K FORD Group CPAs
The Palisades Group, LLC
Thomas & Jensen PLLC
Thomas & Thomas CPAs PLLC
Thomas Edwards Group
Thomas V Stephen & Co PC
Thompson Derrig & Craig PC
Tiller Ketterman & Jones LLC
Todd Hamaker & Johnson LLP
Turner Stone & Company LLP
United Way of Greater Houston
University of Texas at Tyler
Vail & Park PC
Van Houten & Associates PC
VeraBank
Vernon E Faulconer Inc
Wathen DeShong & Juncker LLP
Weaver and Tidwell LLP
Wenzel & Associates CPAs LLC
Whitley Penn LLP
Williams Steinert Mask LLP
Williamson County
Wilson Haag PLLC
Wind Energy Transmission Texas LLC
Wolfe and Company PC
Woodland Advisors LLC

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CHAIR
Angela Ragan, CPA

PRESIDENT/CEO
Jodi Ann Ray, CAE, CCE, IOM

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Melinda Bentley, CAE

EDITORIAL BOARD CHAIR
Derrick Bonyuet-Lee CPA, CGMA

MANAGER, MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
Peggy Foley
pfoley@tx.cpa

MANAGING EDITOR
DeLynn Deakins
ddeakins@tx.cpa

CLASSIFIEDS
DeLynn Deakins
ddeakins@tx.cpa

Texas Society of CPAs
14131 Midway Rd., Suite 850
Addison, TX 75001
972-687-8550

 

 

EDITORIAL BOARD
Derrick Bonyuet-Lee, CPA-Austin;
Drew Chumley, CPA-Fort Worth;
Adam Dimmick, CPA-Houston;
Julia Frink, CPA-Fort Worth;
Baria Jaroudi, CPA-Houston;
Jeffrey Johanns, CPA-Austin;
Brian Johnson, CPA-Central Texas;
Michael Kraten, CPA-Houston;
Lucas LaChance, CPA-Dallas;
Shilpa Boggram Sathyamurthy, CPA-Houston.

CONTRIBUTORS
Melinda Bentley; Kenneth Besserman; Holly McCauley; Shicoyia Morgan; Craig Nauta; Triniti Patterson