Potter & Company is recognized by many state, national and international professional CPA associations as a premier certified public accounting firm with extensive audit, accounting and business consulting expertise.

We encourage our team members to grow their personal skills and knowledge by participating with professional development associations.

Potter & Company is a member of CPAmerica International, one of the world’s largest networks of independent CPA and consulting firms.  CPAmerica International consists of more than 70 large closely integrated CPA firms across the United States and, through CPAmerica’s strategic alliance with Horwath International, more than 15,000 professionals in nearly 90 countries around the world.  CPAmerica’s collective resources enable affiliate member firms to serve clients as if members were a national firm.

Our affiliation with CPAmerica allows us to call on the knowledge and resources of CPA’s across the country to answer client's questions and solve their business needs.  Potter & Company takes pride in delivering the personal attention and involvement our clients have come to expect and deserve.  We will draw upon all the resources available to design and implement solutions to solve our client's business issues and support their success.

In addition, Potter & Company partners and team members serve on a variety of  committees and associations such as:

• American Institute of CPAs Governing Council

• American Institute of CPAs Executive Committee – Audit Quality Center

• North Carolina Association of CPAs Board Members of Various Committees

• North Carolina Peer Review Executive Committee

• University of NC at Charlotte Advisory Board for the Accounting Department

The partners and staff of Potter & Company are committed to the profession and the communities we serve as shown by the involvement and leadership positions held.

• Two partners of Potter & Company have served as President of the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants within the last five years.

                     M. W. “Bucky” Glover, President, 2002
                     Robert W. Taylor, President, 2005

These partners also serve a four year term as members on the governing council of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants as a result of their leadership role as president of the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants.

• Our managing partner, M. W. Glover, currently serves on the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ Executive Committee for the Governmental Audit Quality Center.  The profession established the Governmental Audit Quality Center to help members achieve high standards in performing quality governmental audits, including single audits for not-for-profit organizations.

• Our managing partner also chaired the Special Governmental and Not-for-Profit Audit Quality Committee for the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants. The committee was formed to address audit quality for governmental and not-for-profit organizations. The committee focused on steps that could be taken to enhance the understanding of the recipient and increase adherence to professional standards by the issuer.  Representatives of various governmental agencies participated on the committee including the Office of the State Auditor and the Office of the State Controller.  Only four nongovernmental participants served on the committee, two of which were from Potter & Company.

• Donna S. Taylor served as chairman of the Long-Range Planning Committee for the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants and has received the Outstanding Discussion Leader award from the NCACPA for six years.  She currently serves on the Government Auditing Committee.

• Four of our partners, Bucky, Jan, Bob, and Donna, are actively involved in the peer review process for the profession and have served or are currently serving on the Peer Review Committee for the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants.  Performing peer reviews of other CPA firms and serving on the peer review executive committee demonstrate our firm’s commitment to high standards of quality in the audits we perform.

• John W. Kapelar serves on the NCACPA Young CPA Cabinet, a group of young CPA’s who will become the leadership of the profession in future years.

• Jan M. Glover serves on the advisory board for the accounting department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and stays involved with the curriculum used to teach current accounting students to prepare them for the profession.

• Sam Leder serves on the Government and Not-for-Profit Committee for CPAmerica International.