The Practitioner provides national recognition to the owners of America's independent CPA, tax, accounting, and bookkeeping firms. Each month, we publish a new issue featuring long-form profiles of practitioners — CPAs, enrolled agents, bookkeepers, and tax professionals who built their own firms and have something to say about the work, the clients, the long arc of a career, and the future of the profession.
The publication exists because the trade press has largely overlooked this audience. Headlines focus on the Big Four, on private equity rollups, on technology vendors. The independent practitioner — the founding partner of a seven-person firm in western North Carolina, the sole proprietor in a strip mall outside Spokane, the second-generation bookkeeper in a small town in Iowa — rarely sees herself reflected in industry coverage.
We believe that gap is worth filling. These are the firms that know their clients' kids' names. The work they do is unglamorous and essential. Their stories are worth recording.
Editorial Standards
- No pay-to-play. Subjects do not pay to be featured. The publication accepts no advertising or sponsored content from firms that are profiled or could be profiled.
- Owners speak in their own words. Our format is the long-form interview. We do not paraphrase, summarize, or editorialize over the answers our subjects give. Quotes are reviewed for accuracy before publication.
- Independent firms only. We profile firms that are independently owned and operated. Subsidiaries, franchises, and firms majority-owned by private equity are outside our editorial scope.
- Conversations on the record, by consent. Every published profile is approved by the subject before it goes live. Subjects retain the right to revise quotes, redact specific answers, or withdraw the profile entirely prior to publication.
- No undisclosed commercial relationships. The publisher will disclose any commercial relationship between the publication and a subject, past, present, or anticipated.
How subjects are selected
Most of our subjects come from one of three sources: reader nominations, peer recommendations from previously profiled practitioners, and our own outreach to firms whose work or longevity has come to our attention. We give particular consideration to firms in cities and regions that the trade press tends to overlook.
We are not interested in ranking firms or naming "best of" lists. The publication is a record, not a leaderboard.
Contact
For nominations, please use the form on the Nominate page. For all other inquiries — press, partnerships, corrections, or general correspondence — the address above reaches the editor directly.
Published by CJ Silvas, CPA · Founded 2026