Accounts Payable Services & AP Automation Providers in Williston, VT

Davis & Hodgdon Associates CPAs is a Vermont accounting firm with offices in Williston and Rutland. It works mainly with entrepreneurs, small and mid-sized companies, nonprofits and individuals across the Burlington and Rutland areas. Buyers comparing accounts payable providers should know that the firm does not sell AP software. Instead it takes over bill handling as part of a wider outsourced accounting service, so a business can hand off its payables work without hiring in-house bookkeeping staff.

Accounts payable and client accounting

The firm's client accounting arm runs under the Convergent Accounting name. It acts as a remote accounting department for each client and works through a secure web-based platform. The firm says it will record a client's bills and help get them paid every month, which covers the core of a typical AP function.

The firm hires and manages the staff who do the work, so clients don't have to recruit or train bookkeepers themselves. Engagements are billed at a fixed monthly fee rather than by the hour, which makes costs easier to predict.

• Recording vendor bills and helping pay them each month
• Remote bookkeeping and general ledger upkeep
• Monthly financial statements, with weekly status updates on some plans
• Fractional financial leadership on the top tier
• Year-round tax planning linked to the accounting records

Client accounting comes in three tiers. The Strategic tier is a full remote accounting department plus hands-on financial leadership. The Proactive tier is the one the firm says is most popular with small and mid-sized businesses. It gives clients a complete remote accounting team and regular progress reports. A business can pick a level based on how much oversight it wants beyond routine payables and bookkeeping.

Industries and specialties

Dental practices are one group the firm calls out by name. It says it has worked with Vermont dentists for more than three decades and offers them the same tiered outsourced bookkeeping. The firm's audit and attestation work grew in the early 2000s, when local nonprofits needed it. Directory listings also point to a large base of owner-managed businesses that want ongoing advice rather than one-off tax returns.

Background and team

John W. Davis started the practice in August 1990. Bret L. Hodgdon joined as a partner in January 2005 to run the audit and accounting department, and the firm took its current name the next year. The outsourced accounting service grew out of the partners hearing, again and again, how much time owners lost to accounting chores.

Today the CPA firm is part of the Davis & Hodgdon Advisory Group. The group combines tax work at the CPA firm, financial and investment planning at Copper Leaf Financial, and client accounting through Convergent Accounting. Managing partner Hodgdon holds CPA, CGMA, CFP and CFE credentials. Mandy Bradley, CPA, is a partner at the Rutland branch.

Several things set the firm apart for AP buyers. Bill payment and bookkeeping sit under the same roof as tax, audit and wealth planning, so financial records feed straight into wider advice. In 2026 three partners were named to a Forbes list of top CPAs by state, and the firm was again included in Best Places to Work in Vermont. It also highlights a people, planet and profit approach and takes part in Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility.