EXCITING NEWS AT GARDNER AND BILLING CPAs!
Dave Gardner and Melissa Billing have been providing
accounting and tax services for nearly 40 years, and continue to implement new
strategies to deal with the ever-changing business environment.
We recently completed a Strategic Planning Session where we
evaluated our previous plans and identified adaptations we need to implement
for meeting our future goals.
Jessica Malone has developed into a key element of the
services we provide. Jessica brings an
enviable work-ethic, an eagerness to learn and a goal of advancing her
responsibilities. In addition to her
current responsibilities, Jessica will begin to work on more of the organizing
and preliminary work-paper preparation that goes into producing tax
returns. An enrolled-agent designation, which would
provide Jessica with the proper credentials to represent clients with the
Internal Revenue Service, is in Jessica’s future goals and will greatly expand
the office’s capacity.
Melissa and Dave will
continue to be as involved with their clients, but Jessica’s assistance will allow
the CPA’s to provide services to a larger client group. We always welcome new clients and are excited
by our new capacity for growth!
As a result of the move Jess is making, the office will be
searching for an entry level staff accountant.
This position will be a professional career opportunity with advancement
opportunities as their skills develop. We know we can teach the right individual
what they need to be a success at the office.
We also know that accounting experience is helpful; however, the
willingness to learn and to be adaptable are the key elements of long-term
success with our team of professionals.
We will also be starting a search for a seasonal receptionist
from November through April to assist us with the important jobs of phone calls
and client contact at the office. With
the large amount of information that comes into the office it is a priority to
track and organize that material.
We are developing a summer-internship opportunity for young
adults that are about to enter the work-force and looking for experience in the
accounting field. We are excited to
share our plans with the local Business Professionals of America (BPA) in the
High School. The business classes and the
BPA do an excellent job of preparing interested students with the basic skills
to be successful with the internship. We see it as an opportunity to begin
grooming potential employees for long-term employment in our community.
We have added a “portal” feature to our suite of products
and are excited about the features it makes available to our clients. In short, the portal is a secure method for
clients to electronically access their information at the office. An easy enrollment providing a user name and
password allows a user to download their information. For example, if your bank needs a copy of
your tax return, you can easily download and email it instead of requesting a
hard copy from the office that then needs delivered to the bank! Each client only has access to their own
information and only those who enroll in the portal will have information
available for download.
Our newly updated website: www.davegardnercpa.com includes a
“blog” feature that we use to post new and important information that is
readily available to all readers. The
blog does not provide for interaction by the user, but is a great way to get
information out to a large audience in a short amount of time.
We have published our Facebook Business page that will also
serve as a means of getting important information to the Facebook
community. In addition, the page will
have a direct link to our blog for a more in-depth discussion of timely topics.
So in your Facebook browsing, please
check out our Gardner & Billing CPAs Facebook page.
In the coming weeks, we will be starting our search for the
staff accountant and the seasonal receptionist.
Watch the Powder River Examiner, our website, and the postings by the
Job Service for Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota for these positions.
