Texas CPA Firms Make Accounting Today Top 100 List

Eight Firms Claim Spots in Southwest Top 10

DALLAS, March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Texas CPA firms fared exceptionally well in the recently released Accounting Today Top 100 Firms of 2010. Two Fort Worth firms, Weaver (formerly Weaver and Tidwell) and Whitley Penn ranked 49th and 94th, respectively. Both firms also ranked first and second in a list of the Top 10 Southwest firms.  

Weaver, the largest firm in the Southwest with more than 400 employees, took the top honor with close to $60 million in revenue last year, a 14.39 percent increase.

Last year was a busy time for the firm as it installed a new CEO, Tommy Lawler, opened an office in Austin, launched a transaction advisory services practice and changed its corporate name from Weaver & Tidwell.

Whitley Penn was just as impressive. With 157 total employees in two offices, the firm boasted $32.5 million in revenue which was unchanged from a year ago. Whitley Penn was also named an Accounting Today Best Firm to Work for in 2009.

Among the other top firms in the Southwest were Padgett, Stratemann & Co. of San Antonio, Hagen, Streiff, Newton & Oshiro of Addison, Texas, TravisWolff of Dallas, PKF Texas of Houston, Lane Gorman Trubitt of Dallas and Johnson, Miller & Co. of Odessa.  

In other news beyond the Top 100, Cain Watters & Associates of Dallas and Briggs & Veselka Co. were named "Firms to Watch" in the Southwest. Each year, Accounting Today showcases a group of firms that aren't quite large enough to make the Top 100, but have shown great growth, and that have the potential to make the list in the near future.

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SOURCE Texas Society of CPAs