Exhibit A
Accountants work in Newport News
Newport News sits in a region with a steady base of accounting and bookkeeping firms, from single preparers working from home offices to multi partner practices serving small businesses along the Peninsula. Demand comes from the city's employers, its contractors, its shipyard adjacent trades and the small companies that support them, plus households filing each spring. Search interest clusters around tax preparation in the first quarter and around bookkeeping, payroll and business formation through the rest of the year. The firms visible in those results are a mix of local owner operators and regional practices, and the paid search space around tax terms is contested in the weeks before the filing deadline.
