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Ford Baker CPA

Owner and Founder, BaCo Tech

Ford Baker, CPA, has over 35 years of experience in the public accounting industry, with over 20 of experience running a firm, BaCo Group, PLLC. In that role, Ford always sought to improve the efficiency of his firm through technology and forward-thinking. His passion was built out of a unique backstory; in 2012, he weighed almost 400 pounds, but by 2014 he had changed his life and rode a bicycle from Canada to Mexico down the Pacific Coast Highway. He had a passion and focus on eliminating the clutter in his practice that created the 400-pound version of himself that he did not want to see return. Ford developed an in-house transaction-based workflow using Excel and various other off-the-shelf utilities that gather data and work with data in real-time, so CPAs can work on this year's tax and accounting, this year. That workflow is now a patented cloud accounting solution that is helping CPAs improve their client services and increase efficiency. Ford is a regular contributor for Accounting Web, Sage Advice, Intuit's Firm of the Future and has been featured in Accounting Today, California CPA Magazine, and CPA Practice Advisor. He also taught accounting workflow and efficiency webinars for Sage Accounting, Texas State Society of CPAs, and is a member of the Thomson Reuters Onvio Advisory Board.


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