PRESTON - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Position of Managing Director With

Andy Carroll has held the position of Managing Director with Preston CPA since joining the firm in 2008. In addition to overseeing the Accounting Department he directs the firm's operations and gives strategic guidance and direction to the staff to ensure that the firm's goals and objectives are achieved and in line with the current mission and future vision of the firm. With Nearly 20 years of entrepreneurial experience, Andy brings extensive business experience to the firm. He yields expertise in corporate policies, operations, budgeting, and the development and maintenance of Total Quality Management systems to ensure that the firm complies with all statutory regulations. Prior to entering the private business world, Andy worked in academia as a college dean and instructor teaching curriculum development. Andy's college teaching background combined with his entrepreneurial experience and business accounting expertise, makes him uniquely qualified to help clients better understand their finances and achieve their business goals. It is his love for quality and order that allows him to be an indispensable contributor to the firm, it's vendors, partners and clients.

Maurie West brings more than 12 years of management, tax and accounting experience to the Preston team as its top Tax Manager. In his extensive role, he manages tax reporting, planning and compliance for both individual and corporate clients of the firm -ensuring tax returns are completed with accuracy, minimizing tax obligations. Before joining Preston CPA Maurie was a member of management in a privately-held US Fortune 500 organization. He holds an MBA from Everest University with a focus in Accounting. As a licensed CPA, Enrolled Agent and certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor West's extensive experience has allowed him to become quite the financial expert. He's chosen to spend his life helping people sleep easier, from saving client's tax dollars, handling a business's payroll, to ensuring the proper handling of IRS notices he takes pride in what he does and does it well. When he is not giving clients peace of mind, you can find him trying to win father of the year award, chowing down on some peanut butter, training to win more Obstacle Course Racing (OCR) awards or competing in the next big Triathlon.

Job Titles:

• Certified Public Accountant

Melissa Preston is an award-winning Certified Public Accountant and National Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business program alumni, bringing more than 20 years of vast experience to the financial industry. At the introduction of Preston's career, she worked as a consultant for several organizations and internationally renowned, Big 4 Accounting Firm, Deloitte, LLP. During that tenure, she realized she wanted to do more to affect change in the industry and the business and lives of her clients. In 2005, Melissa took control of her future and founded Preston CPA, a certified public accounting firm located in the heart of downtown Atlanta. Preston understood the anxiety that surrounded financial areas like auditing, accounting, and taxes and it was her mission to eliminate that anxiety and replace it with unwavering confidence. From her firm's serious take on education by adhering to the Continuing Professional Education standards to the firm's unique quality and culture they have been able to transform situations that could have a negative impact by thinking outside the box and delivering favorable results. Her firm aims to stay humble and work with clients until they fully understand their financial picture; present and future. As a minority and woman owned business, Melissa values giving back to the community. Being awarded the Invest Atlanta 2016 Community Favorite, her firm rose to become one of Atlanta's favored financial organizations. Her Preston CPA audit team performs A-133 Compliance Audits for state, local and federal organizations via contracting and sub-contracting services. Their continued relationship with major Clients such as the Georgia Lottery Corporation was built by providing high standard of services.