Hocker, Fitzjarrald & Richardson, PC CPA s

Hocker, Fitzjarrald & Richardson, PC CPAs is an accounting firm in Canton, IL. The firm provides tax preparation, accounting, and investment services to individual and business clients, offering a wide range of specialties that include bookkeeping and write-up, financial statement preparation, financial forecasts and projections, cash flow and budgeting analysis, tax planning, payroll services, sales tax services, estate and trust tax preparation, business consulting, business succession planning, buying and selling a business, fraud prevention and detection, management advisory services, reviews and compilations, and business entity selection. Accounting software selection and implementation are also part of the practice. The firm is licensed in Illinois as a full-service Certified Public Accounting firm and serves clients across the region from its office on West Chestnut Street.

The firm's three shareholders and CPAs are Robert R. Fitzjarrald, who joined the firm in 1984 after graduating from Western Illinois University and became a shareholder, bringing experience in taxation, accounting, and auditing for small and medium private companies, governmental, and not-for-profit entities; Joshua S. Richardson, a 1999 graduate of Olivet Nazarene University, who merged his CPA practice with Hocker and Fitzjarrald, PC on October 1, 2014 to form the current firm upon the retirement of Jim Hocker; and Peggy A. Roberts, a graduate of Illinois State University and Fulton County native, who joined the firm in 2010 with a background that includes 15 years at a Peoria CPA firm where she rose to managing shareholder. Bob is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Illinois CPA Society, and the AICPA Tax Division. Supporting staff includes Paula L. Arrenholz, Carla J. Spotser, and Tabitha Watson. Office hours run Monday through Friday, with extended Saturday hours from January through April 15, and the office does not close for vacation or lunch.

The office sits on West Chestnut Street, about a tenth of a mile from the Parlin-Ingersoll Public Library and the Canton Post Office, and roughly a fifth of a mile from Canton City Hall and the Canton Police Department, with West Locust Street and East Locust Street running nearby.

For individuals and businesses in Canton and the surrounding area seeking year-round accounting, tax, and advisory work from CPAs with deep local roots, Hocker, Fitzjarrald & Richardson, PC brings decades of combined experience to the community.