CPAs in Des Moines

38 certified public accountants are licensed to practise and on the Board’s record in Des Moines — 0.1% of everyone Washington currently licenses.

What the address on the record means, and what it does not

The Board records one place per licence holder. It is where the Board writes to them — not necessarily where they practise, and not a list of firms in Des Moines. Someone with a Des Moines address may serve clients across the state, and a firm in Des Moines may be staffed by CPAs recorded elsewhere.

Read against that limit, the number is still worth something: it says how many people Washington currently licenses with a Des Moines address, which is the closest a public register gets to the size of the local profession.

When they renew

Washington renews CPA licences every three years, between 1 January and 30 April. That splits Des Moines into cohorts:

The deadline that actually bites is earlier: the 120 hours of continuing education must be complete by 31 December of the preceding year. How the three-year cycle works.

How long they have been licensed

2 of the 38 CPAs on the record in Des Moines were first licensed before 2000 — 5.3%. By decade of first licence:

Board orders

None of the 38 licences held in Des Moines has a Board order published against it. Note what that does and does not mean: the Board has published orders as documents only since 1 January 2020, so an older matter would not show here at all.

Looking for a CPA in Des Moines?

A licence is the legal minimum to practise, not a recommendation, and this site makes none. Tell us what you need and we pass the enquiry to people holding a current Washington licence — 38 of them are on the record in Des Moines.

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Registered CPA firms in Des Moines

Alongside the 38 individually licensed CPAs, the Board lists 3 registered CPA firms with a Des Moines address. The two registers are separate: a firm registration is not a licence held by any person, and the file does not say who works where.

1 of them — 33.3% — are sole proprietorships: one person practising under a trading name, with no separate entity behind it. Worth knowing before picturing an office. What each legal form means.

The 38 CPAs on the record in Des Moines

Named as the Board holds them, 140 rows at most — the whole register, lapsed licences included, is in the search.

Towns of a similar size for the profession

• Pasco 48
• Bremerton 47
• Ridgefield 44
• University Place 44
• Lake Forest Park 42
• Covington 39
• East Wenatchee 39
• Ellensburg 36
• Lacey 36
• Selah 34
• Arlington 33
• Moses Lake 33
• Normandy Park 32

Neighbours by size, not a ranking: this list slides with the town you are on, so each of the 91 city pages is reachable from the others rather than only the largest few. All of them.