These days, to call Perkins & Co an accounting firm is like calling a Porsche a car. Yes, we do tax preparation and keep an eye on your financial statements, but that's only a small part of the bigger picture. The bottom line is we work with our clients. We help them get where they want to go in business, and in life. It's our clients who make us successful, and we didn't get to be Portland's largest local accounting firm just by crunching numbers.
Our Timeline:
1986
Sander Perkins & Company is founded in Portland, the result of a merger between two small firms: Perkins, Jeddeloh & Acheson and Sander, Hull, Reynolds. The mission of the firm was to be a local firm offering full service capabilities comparable to the national firms.
1988
Perkins & Company launches the "Less boring than the average accounting firm" tag line and advertising campaigns created by Wieden + Kennedy. The campaigns include ads, T-shirts, jackets, posters, post-tax season party invitations. Almost ten years later, the firm still get requests for "Al Capone" T-shirts and is still using the Al Capone print ads. We discover that accounting firms in other cities have copied the entire campaign as their own.
1993
Perkins & Co moves to larger offices on the 12th floor of the PacWest building in downtown Portland. Architects Yost Grubbe Hall win an industry award of excellence for the Perkins space design.
1994
Perkins & Co launches a technology consulting firm "Perkins Consulting" to meet the changing technology needs of businesses in all industry sectors.
1995
Perkins & Co joins the BDO Seidman Alliance. BDO Seidman is the nation's 7th largest accounting and consulting firm (today, BDO ranks fifth nationally) and the independent alliance allows Perkins to offer national and international level services to clients.
1995
Perkins & Co. launches Perkins Medical Consulting to better serve the healthcare industry, a large client segment of the accounting firm.
1997
Perkins & Co. launches Pacific Investment Advisors (PIA), a fee-only investment advisory firm. Only a handful of accounting firms in the country have created such an entity. PIA is chosen by the Frank Russell Company of Tacoma to be one of only 57 Russell advisor firms in the US.
1999
Perkins & Co launches Perkins Financial Planning. It is headed by a certified financial planner to provide services to high net worth individuals. PFP becomes a division of PIA.
2002
The total number of Perkins & Co shareholders reaches double digits: 5 men and 5 women.
2002
Perkins & Co hires a Business Development Director to help grow the firm; we are the first local CPA firm to do so.
2003
Perkins & Co moves to 10th floor and, in 2006, takes over part of 11th floor of PacWest building to accommodate its fast growth.
2005
Cheryl Perkins retires; she is the first of the original founders to do so.
2005
Gary Reynolds is named President of Perkins & Co.
2006
Perkins & Co celebrates its 20th anniversary.
2007
Business Development Director Dave Sullivan is elected shareholder; he is the first non-CPA and non-client service employee to become a shareholder.
2007
Perkins & Co surpasses 100 employees.
2007
Perkins & Co is named one of Oregon's Most Admired Companies by the Portland Business Journal.
2008
New logo, tag line and identity package is introduced.
