The Morehouse Group in Dalton, Georgia, has merged with the Atlanta-based Nichols, Cauley & Associates, LLC to create the biggest accounting firm in Northwest Georgia.
Morehouse, which began in 1948 as Finney Austin and Company, has grown to more than a dozen accountants and bookkeepers at its Dalton office. Nichols Cauley, which started in 1981, has over 200 employees and operates nine offices across Georgia, including an outlet in Dalton.
The Morehouse team members joining Nichols Cauley have moved into the recently renovated portions of Nichols Cauley’s existing Dalton office on West Crawford Street. Penny Carpenter, Jerry Watkins, Karen Clement, Gordon Morehouse and Mark Krueger of the Morehouse Group and Larry Winter, David Scoggins and Kirk Jarrett of Nichols Cauley are combining their Dalton operations to offer clients a wider array of services
With locations also in Rome, Calhoun, and Canton, the combined CPA firm is now the largest local practice in the area. With nine offices across Georgia, Nichols Cauley is one of the largest 300 firms in the United States, according to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
“Our goal is that each office is a community firm with the strength of being the ninth largest firm in Georgia that functions as one firm,” said Larry Winter, CPA of Nichols Cauley in Dalton.