Accounts Payable Services & AP Automation Providers in Watkinsville, GA

Resource Partners is a licensed CPA firm based in Watkinsville, just outside Athens, Georgia. It works with business owners, executives, independent professionals and non-profits across Northeast Georgia. The firm does not sell a dedicated AP automation platform. It handles the back-office work behind paying bills as part of a broader outsourced accounting relationship, with tax, payroll and advisory work alongside it.

Bookkeeping and Payables-Related Support

The firm's main business service is taking over a company's books so that owners can focus on running the business. The team records transactions and enters data, reconciles bank accounts, and reviews expenses and profitability. It also builds balance sheets and develops cash flow projections.

For buyers who want vendor bills recorded, matched against bank activity and planned around available cash, these services cover the core of payables bookkeeping. The firm uses QuickBooks to organize client finances, and it also helps clients buy, set up and learn the software.

• Record-keeping, data entry and bank reconciliation
• Expense review and cash flow projections
• Payroll processing and payroll tax compliance
• Internal control assessments with recommendations
• Outsourced CFO guidance for businesses and non-profits
• QuickBooks setup, training and tune-ups
• Reviews and compilations at different levels of assurance

Controls and Financial Oversight

Companies that worry about how their payment processes are run can ask the firm to examine their internal control systems. The team checks whether operating procedures work efficiently and effectively, then recommends improvements. The firm's resource library also includes material on detecting and preventing employee fraud. Its CFO service gives clients an outside financial manager who helps guide decisions. The firm also supports bank financing requests, strategic planning, succession planning and new business setup.

Industries Served

Healthcare is a named specialty. The firm serves doctors, dentists and veterinarians in the Athens and Watkinsville area with bookkeeping, income reporting, payroll and tax preparation. If a practice already has a manager, the firm works with that person to improve accounting procedures rather than replacing them. Non-profits are another focus: the firm helps them classify revenue and expenses in ways that protect their tax-exempt status.

Team and Background

The firm traces its history to its former owner, G. Michael Smith and Associates, and its site cites more than 30 years of experience. Managing Partner Seth Robison, CPA, holds an accounting degree from the University of Central Florida. He focuses on advising corporations, partnerships and non-profits, with particular interest in CFO work.

Partner Leigha Streetman, CPA, a University of Georgia accounting graduate, concentrates on business records, financial statements and tax. Partner Bill Fyffe, CPA, has more than 23 years in public accounting and handles complex tax matters. Retired managing partner Kathy Reising, CPA, remains a strategic advisor.

Staff accountant Gina Seymour, a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor with two decades at the firm, specializes in bookkeeping and payroll reporting. Team members belong to the Georgia Society of CPAs and the AICPA. The firm offers a secure client upload area, a client portal and a free initial consultation.

Overview

Seymour & Perry, LLC is a certified public accounting and consulting firm based in Watkinsville, Georgia, a short drive from Athens. The practice traces its roots to the firm of J. Allen Seymour, CPA. Today it works with individuals and organizations in Northeast Georgia, in other parts of the United States and overseas. On the business side it serves roughly 435 corporations, partnerships, fiduciaries and tax-exempt groups, and its individual tax team prepares more than 1,200 personal returns every year.

Accounts payable and bookkeeping support

Buyers should know that the firm does not market a separate accounts payable department or an AP automation platform. Payables work is handled through its bookkeeping offering instead. That service is scaled to each client and can run on a monthly, quarterly or yearly schedule. A typical engagement can include:

• Recording activity in the client ledger, whether in QuickBooks, in Sage or straight from bank statements
• Reconciling checking accounts and company credit cards
• Preparing reports when a client asks for them
• Setting up and organizing QuickBooks files and training client staff to use them
• Ongoing QuickBooks help by phone and email

Beyond bookkeeping, the firm prepares periodic financial statements, files payroll and sales tax returns, prepares business income tax returns and represents clients before the IRS and state revenue agencies. Its consulting work covers internal accounting controls and accounting systems, which matters to companies reviewing how bills are approved, paid and recorded. Consulting also covers business start-ups and sales, projections and forecasts, business valuations, credit applications and planning for the retirement of key executives.

Audit, tax and planning services

The firm performs audits under generally accepted auditing standards and government auditing standards. It audits financial statements for both commercial and nonprofit organizations and also audits 401(k) and 403(b) plans. It offers reviews and compilations that follow AICPA standards. For individuals, it prepares returns and advises on estate and retirement planning, drawing on its background in trusts, estates and employee benefits. Clients can also have documents notarized at no charge.

Team and credentials

Managing partner M. Alan Perry is a Georgia-licensed CPA who handles audits, reviews, compilations, consulting and tax work for individuals, businesses, trusts, estates and nonprofits. He earned a master's in accountancy at Georgia College & State University and belongs to the AICPA and the Georgia Society of CPAs. Sarah B.

Simpson, CPA, licensed since 2002 and formerly an auditor at Ernst & Young, manages audit and attest engagements. Connie Frank, Director of Business Development, oversees business returns and payroll services. Bookkeeping specialist Shawna Barr works with her to keep corporate ledgers accurate.

Other staff include Director of Individual Tax Jason Jones, an enrolled agent, accountants working toward CPA licensure, and office staff.

Several team members have taught accounting at the University of North Georgia and other regional colleges. The firm has also given seminars for CPAs, attorneys and trust officers. Clients share files through a secure online portal that also handles protected messages and keeps returns stored for later use. Fees are estimated after the firm reviews the scope of each engagement.

That makes the firm a fit for small and mid-sized organizations that want payables recorded and reconciled as part of wider accounting and tax support, rather than through a dedicated AP outsourcing contract.