Exhibit A
Accountants work in Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach is a city of small businesses, and a good share of them are owner run: contractors, restaurants, salons, shops along the oceanfront and the retail corridors inland. Those owners search for an accountant the way they search for anything else, on a phone, often with a problem already in hand. The trade here is a mix of small local practices and the national chains that franchise into Hampton Roads, so the searches are spread across many names rather than held by one. Demand is steady through the year and rises around filing deadlines, when people who have put the job off start looking for someone to take it over.
