Exhibit A
Accountants work in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City has a large accounting market. The metro is home to the state's biggest concentration of CPA firms, bookkeeping shops and enrolled agents, and the energy, oilfield services and healthcare employers around downtown and the Health Sciences Center keep a steady flow of business filings, payroll work and tax preparation moving through local practices. Search demand splits between owner operators looking for a bookkeeper or a tax preparer close to home and small companies looking for a firm that knows their industry. Franchise tax chains take a share of the consumer side, and independent firms take the business side. The searches are spread across the metro rather than sitting in one downtown cluster, so a firm's visibility depends on the places it names and the questions it answers.
