Life In Accounting - The Where Accountants Go Podcast

Dale Ross, CPA with Ross & Champion CPAs as well as Mayor of Georgetown, Texas, joined us for this episode of Life In Accounting: The Where Accountants Go podcast. Recession proof career As with most interviews I started with how Dale decided to pursue accounting as a career in the first place. Dale recounts the story of how it actually was later in life that he started on his accounting degree – at about age 30. He was looking for a career field that was in high demand, where he could potentially be self-employed, and that was recession proof. He concluded that since tax filing was a necessity of life, he would become a CPA. Building a business It was always Ross’s goal to build a larger business than just a single-owner sole proprietorship, so early on in the 2nd year of his practice he acquired two different firms in order to quickly grow his client base. Ross & Champion currently sits at about 9 employees overall and focuses on the tax side of the business. If you have an interest in acquiring a practice