Salt Lake City, Dec 3, 2024

Platform Accounting Group is thrilled to announce its founder and CEO Reyes Florez was named to Accounting Today’s 2024 Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting list.

The Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting are recognized for their high-profile roles in advancing the profession. This year’s Top 100 renewed their call for the profession to strengthen and diversify the talent pipeline, and offered solutions ranging from rethinking CPA license requirements to making accounting jobs more attractive by boosting salaries, decreasing workloads, and enhancing relevancy.

The 2024 Top 100 People are beacons of relevancy, as all of this year’s honorees were chosen for their influence over the past six months and presumed impact over the next six.

About Reyes, AT said, “even as his private equity-backed Platform Accounting Group approaches almost 40 deals in the accounting space — giving it a solid place among the largest firms in the country — Florez remains committed to preserving the qualities and characteristics that make strong local firms unique. “

Platform Accounting Group has more than doubled in size every year over the last seven years, has nearly 1,000 employees across nearly 15 states, and has a market-leading low turnover rate. Platform is continually building out an ecosystem to provide collaborative, best-in-class professional services from tax to wealth management, ERP consulting, business accounting services and more.