PYA’s Marty Brown and Carol Carden make Forbes list of Best-In-State CPAs
PYA was the only firm headquartered in Knoxville with more than one CPA named to the list.
The Forbes Magazine editorial team has devoted the past year to recognizing our first-ever Forbes Best-In-State CPAs, and two of our colleagues at PYA, the power behind teknovation.biz, are among the honorees.
The sequel to last year’s inaugural Forbes Top 200 CPAs list identifies 1,000 of the finest CPAs from across all 50 states. Joining the honorees are:
- Marty Brown, President and Chief Executive Officer of PYA; and
- Carol Carden, Managing Principal of Compensation Valuation Planning and Design.
PYA was the only firm headquartered in Knoxville with more than one CPA named to the list. It was also notable that only 10 CPAs were selected in East Tennessee with six in Knoxville. Finally, several national firms—including the Big Four, Aprio, Crowe, Grant Thornton, BDO, and RSM—did not have representatives on the Tennessee list.
For Brown, it is the second major recognition in the past year. He was also named a 2024 Forbes Top 200 CPA in America.
About the honorees, Forbes Editors wrote, “It’s no easy feat to determine who should appear on a list of America’s top 1,000 Best-In-State CPAs. The challenge is to recognize the body of work of those who rise to meet the calling again and again. To do so, our review team identified thousands of eligible candidates through interviews with industry insiders, outside nominations, editorial research, and an independent advisory board of accomplished CPAs. Candidates from a variety of backgrounds, specializations, and locations were considered. Throughout that year of research, in interviews with these inaugural Best-In-State CPAs, we heard one refrain time and again: There is a talent shortage in the profession, and simply not as many accounting students as needed to fill the ranks of CPAs retiring in droves. Ironically enough, the very profession the global economy relies on to account for economic activity appears to have lacked foresight into the inventory management of its own accounting professionals.”
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