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From left to right: Nate Boyce, Myles Brown,
David Boyce, Ben Brown, Craig Boyce
PHOTO: DEBBIE CUNNINGHAM
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All along, the founders were think-
ing about what would come after they
left. For many CPA firms, the succes-
sion plan is fairly straightforward:
Find someone to take over the prac-
tice. They were starting to get inqui-
ries from big national and interna-
tional firms about being bought out
but always said no. It wasn’t just their
long-term strategy that kept them
from selling: Many of their young-
er partner-track hires had left bigger
firms precisely because they wanted
to work in a midsized local company.
Even though the founders might do
better financially, they didn’t feel it
was right to turn around and sell to a
bigger fish.
“A lot of the culture here that we’ve
created … you just wouldn’t have that
in an environment where you were
controlled by what the New York of-
fice says,” says Ben Brown. “Creat-
ing a place where you like to be and
that you enjoy, there’s a ton of value
in that.”