CPA Firms

Our firm was founded in 1920 by Grundy Shapard. He earned his Masters degree in Business Administration from Harvard University and had been with a national accounting firm in the Dallas area. He moved to the Wichita Falls area to establish his practice and to meet the service needs of the rapidly expanding oil and gas industry. He was joined in the 1930s by Arch Freemon, who had been with the Internal Revenue Service and later became one of the early leaders of the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy.

Herbert Story, who had been employed in the accounting departments of several area oil and gas companies, joined the firm in the 1940s. The three formed the existing partnership January 1, 1945, and are responsible for developing the sophistication and intense drive to provide the quality service the firm still exhibits today.