What To Expect From Our Dental CPAs

All of our members have been carefully selected and pre-screened. In many cases, we have been working with them for over 10–20 years.

We will make every effort to put you in touch with a dental accountant closest to your location. If we don’t have a member firm nearby and are not comfortable recommending someone, we will tell you upfront.

The Dental Accounting Association is founded and managed by Build Your Firm, Inc., which is a practice development firm dedicated to the accounting industry. Build Your Firm has operated since 2003 and works with thousands of accounting firms throughout North America.

Build Your Firm does not provide any accounting or tax services.

Our Association does not broker dental practices and does not provide wealth management services. We are dedicated to accounting, tax, and advisory services. Unlike the ADCPA, we focus on your practice and do not sell dental practices or financial services.

In terms of size, all of our members have fewer than twenty employees and are closer in size to your organization.

How Are Dental CPAs Different?

In a typical CPA firm, the practice works with all types of businesses, organizations, and individuals. As a result, dentists represent a very small portion of their overall practice because the firm works across industries such as construction, retail, non-profits, and manufacturing.

This means most local CPAs would not know an endodontist from a periodontist, let alone what CAD/CAM dentistry means.

By hiring a Dental Certified Public Accountant (CPA) that provides a boutique level of expertise, you gain not only a sound financial system with strong reporting, but also a trusted advisor to support better-informed business decisions.

A Dental CPA Association member also has peers around the country to consult for extremely rare or complex situations.

While our dental accountants are CPAs as well, the size of our member firms is closer to the size of your dental practice. That’s why our fees are more reasonable and understood in advance, rather than billed hourly.

Our dental CPAs focus on all types of dentists and often also serve doctors and veterinarians.

At larger CPA firms that service hundreds of dentists, you may feel like a number rather than a valued client due to large staff sizes and focus on MSOs and DSOs that can justify higher hourly fees.

What Types of Dentists Do Members Serve?

Our Dental Accounting Association members serve the following types of dentists:

• General dentistry
• Pediatric dentistry
• Orthodontists
• Oral surgeons
• Periodontists
• Endodontists

As our members’ practices have grown over the years, it is harder to service newer dentists who do not yet have a practice or who work as 1099 employees for a DSO. Most of our members do provide practice acquisition due diligence services.