Meet Our Local CPAs
Our Local CPAs combine deep technical expertise with a client-first approach to serving thriving businesses and individuals throughout the Southeast.
At Connally, Jordan & Associates, our strength comes from being close to the businesses we serve. With a strong team of full‑time CPAs and a seasoned support team, we offer the technical depth growing companies need — paired with the kind of personal relationship that makes good advice practical, timely, and tailored.
A CPA Firm That Knows Your Business
As your company grows, your financial decisions become more complex. Tax strategy, compliance, entity structure, and financial visibility all start to shape the future of your business in ways that aren’t always obvious at first.
You deserve a CPA team that understands your industry, knows your market, and is invested in your long‑term success. Our firm was built to provide exactly that: experienced professionals who know your history and stay with you as your business evolves.
Meet Our Certified Public Accountants

Andrew Jordan
Andrew Jordan leads Connally, Jordan & Associates with a focus on small businesses, individuals, and complex Offers in Compromise.
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Logan Morris
Logan Morris focuses on individuals, small businesses, and payroll services.
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Katherine C. Barnes
With 38 years of public accounting experience, Kathy Barnes brings deep expertise in individuals, small businesses, payroll, and nonprofits.
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Cameron Carder
Cameron Carder specializes in individuals, small businesses, QuickBooks, audits, and quality control.
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Leslie Craft
Leslie Craft has more than 30 years of public accounting experience, with specialties in individuals, small businesses, payroll, QuickBooks, and sales tax.
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Why Growing Businesses Need a CPA to Help Guide Your Financial Strategy
A CPA is an accountant, but not all accountants are CPAs. The CPA credential reflects something more. It represents advanced training, rigorous ethical standards, and the legal authority to handle matters that go beyond day‑to‑day bookkeeping. As your business grows, that added depth makes a meaningful difference.
Bookkeepers and accountants play an essential role in keeping your financial records accurate and organized. But once your business reaches a certain level of complexity, you need more than clean books — you need strategic guidance.
Tax Strategy, Not Just Tax Filing
Bookkeepers record transactions. CPAs interpret them. As your revenue grows, tax decisions become strategic — affecting cash flow, liability, and long‑term planning. A CPA helps you structure your business in a way that minimizes tax burden and supports future goals.
Compliance and Risk Management
Growing companies face expanding regulatory requirements: payroll compliance, multi‑state nexus, industry‑specific reporting, and audit readiness. CPAs are trained to identify risk, build controls, and keep your business compliant as you scale.
Forward‑Looking Financial Insight
Bookkeeping looks backward. CPA advisory looks forward. We help you understand margin trends, cost drivers, cash flow patterns, and the financial implications of hiring, expanding, or restructuring.
Support During Major Transitions
Ownership changes, acquisitions, real estate purchases, and financing decisions all carry tax and structural consequences. CPAs guide you through these moments so you don’t make costly mistakes.
Representation and Advocacy
If your business is ever audited or needs to resolve a tax issue, only a CPA can represent you before the IRS. Having a CPA who already knows your business is invaluable.
A growing business doesn’t just need accurate books — it needs a financial partner who can help you make decisions with confidence.
The Value of a Local, Full‑Service CPA Team
When your CPA team works in the same region you operate in, the guidance you receive becomes more relevant — and more actionable. Our clients benefit from three core strengths:
Regional Tax Insight
State and local tax laws shift often, and the details matter. Because our work is rooted in the Southeast, we stay closely aligned with the incentives, requirements, and regulatory changes that directly affect your bottom line.
Industry Familiarity
Construction, healthcare, manufacturing, professional services, real estate, hospitality — each industry has its own financial framework. Our CPAs have hands‑on experience across the sectors that drive the regional economy, so we’re already fluent in the challenges you face.
Relationship Continuity
With our full‑time CPAs, you get a team large enough to support complex needs and small enough to maintain long‑term relationships. You work with the same people year after year — professionals who know your goals, understand your operations, and can anticipate what’s coming next.
Built for Businesses in a Growth Stage
Growing companies often find themselves in a unique position: too complex for basic tax prep but not interested in the overhead or impersonal feel of a large corporate firm. That’s where we fit.
This is the stage where accounting decisions compound. The tax structure you choose today affects what a sale or ownership transition looks like years from now. Your cost accounting determines whether your margins are clear or hidden. Your payroll, entity classification, and compliance posture all influence what you owe — and what you keep.
Working with our CPA team, which is experienced in businesses at your level, isn’t just helpful. It’s foundational.
We Speak Your Industry’s Language
Our CPAs and staff bring deep, practical experience across the industries that define the Southeastern economy. We don’t have to learn your business from scratch — we already understand the financial realities you operate in.
A Regional Firm With a Long‑Term Mindset
Connally, Jordan & Associates has grown intentionally — by serving the businesses that drive the Southeastern economy and building relationships that last. Our clients gain access to a full‑service accounting and advisory practice, including tax planning, audit and assurance, outsourced CFO services, and transaction advisory.
We measure our success by the health of the businesses we serve. That alignment is intentional — and it’s why our clients tend to stay.
Call Today — Let’s Talk About What’s Next
A Certified Public Accountant brings a different level of training, licensure, and analytical capability. For a growing business, that difference matters. If your business is entering a new stage of growth, preparing for a transition, or simply operating at a level your current CPA can’t support, we’re here to help.
We look forward to connecting with you soon.
