Private companies, entrepreneurs, business owners and not-for-profits have engaged with us for over 30 years.

Founded in 1980 as a startup firm when three entrepreneurial and enthusiastic CPAs came together to form Gifford, Hillegass & Ingwersen, GH&I today is an 80 person full-service accounting, audit, business advisory, tax, and financial services provider. Clients of GH&I include a wide spectrum of middle market businesses including corporations, closely-held businesses, partnerships, joint ventures, and startups; and estates, trusts, nonprofits and individuals.

We remain today among the 10 largest locally-based firms, and we are listed among the Southeast’s top 25 CPA firm list published by Atlanta Business Chronicle. In addition, for near a decade, GH&I has been named a Best of the Best Top 50 Firm by INSIDE Public Accounting. This prestigious honor is awarded to firms achieving high performance in firm management and leadership, work environment, client service, human resources and staffing, resource management, and rewards and recognition.

Dedicated to building quality relationships and maintaining the highest standard of service to our clients, GH&I combines the personal business relationships of a medium-size local firm with the specialization and skill often associated with a larger, national firm. Our accomplished professionals are focused on generating results—frequently presenting several viable alternatives for achieving a given objective.

We dedicate ourselves to being interested and curious about all facets of your business in order to shape the right opportunities for addressing the challenges of economic volatility and market place competition. Our accounting professionals are backed by highly competent and dedicated support staff, and together we work to be readily accessible to you. This is a major advantage of being a mid-size firm. GH&I is also large enough to provide expertise in diverse areas of specialization, yet small enough to be passionately committed to the success of each client.

The various practice groups of the firm are specialized, but not segregated. So, as a client’s needs are assessed, a client team may be assembled from applicable practice groups; and the multi-disciplinary team collaborates on well-rounded, fully integrated solutions around the issues.

For our many clients with global operations or reach, we engage in the benefits of our strategic alliance membership with Leading Edge Alliance (LEA), a global association of independent, mid-size accounting firms. Through the LEA, GH&I is provided additional professional resources to satisfy client requirements for the engagement. In addition, LEA contributes relevant ‘best practice’ research and information resources on a continuous basis.