KBA Group - Distinctions

	Best Places to Work In March of this year, KBA Group was honored to be named one of the 2008 Best Places to Work in the Dallas/ Fort Worth Metroplex. This prestigious business award competition is sponsored annually by the Dallas Business Journal.

	America's Top Auditors Recognized as one of America’s Top Auditors in 2007 by Bowman’s First Alert, a publication of the accounting industry. The ranking is based on weighted ranking of total clients, total sales audited and average sales per public client audited. KBA Group is ranked higher than any Dallas based firm.

	Top 25 Most Dynamic Companies KBA Group has been voted the Most Dynamic Business in Addison and the North Dallas area. This distinction was voted on by readers of the Addison and North Dallas Corridor Magazine and published in their Spring/Summer 2007 issue.

	Dallas Business Journal Top 10 Metroplex CPA Firm KBA Group LLP is one of the Top Ten certified public accounting firms headquarted in the Dallas/ Fort Worth Metroplex and the third largest locally-based firm, according to the Dallas Business Journal. The most recent list was published in January 2008 and is based on the number of local professionals in 2007.

	Journal of Accountancy Highlighted in the September 2005 issue of the Journal of Accountancy in an article titled “Second-CPA-Firm Update“. The article focuses on the trend for companies to engage a second, highly qualified public accounting firm with the same core competencies as the national and international firms to meet their growing needs, especially the ongoing requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley. KBA’s managing partner, Larry King, is interviewed and quoted on topics including Section 404 implementation, SAS 70 reports for service organizations and internal control maintenance and remediation.

	KBA's Public Clients Among Largest and Fastest Growing KBA is pleased to work with eleven public companies that are on the DBJ’s 2006 lists of the Largest Public Companies and the Fastest Growing Public Companies. These companies are among the approximately 30 public companies that KBA works with. “It has been a pleasure to work with each of these clients and we wish them continued success,” said Larry King, managing partner.

	Dallas 100 KBA is a founding sponsor of the Dallas 100, a business competition recognizing the 100 fastest-growing, privately-held companies in the Metroplex. KBA is proud to have sponsored this event for its entire 18 year history, serving as the program’s accounting firm sponsor. Applications for 2008 will start being accepted in April. If you would like to receive an application for the 2008 Dallas 100, send your request to cirvin@kbagroupllp.com. To learn more about this year's event, follow this link to KBA events.

	Practice Innovation Award Recognized with a Practice Innovation Award for 2005 by The Practical Accountant for Risk Advisory Services practice development. This award annually recognizes accounting firms that are taking the lead in developing new or improved services, and promoting efficiency in the practice of public accounting.

	Marketing Achievement Award Awarded the Marketing Achievement Award by the Association for Accounting Marketing. At its annual conference, the Association for Accounting Marketing recognizes firms for marketing achievements. The awards are for a variety of marketing activities and are given in two firm size categories. KBA won first place for a marketing campaign in the firm category of under 75 professionals. The winning campaign was designed to create awareness of the firm’s capability to assist companies required to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX).

	NDCC Small Business of the Year 2000 KBA Group was the Small Business of the Year for 2000, awarded by the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce. Among the criteria for the award are: innovative leadership regarding clients, employees and within the industry; high quality of products or services, involvement in the community, high ethical standards, in business at least 3 years, 300 or fewer employees. Also taken into consideration is the growth and development of the company in the North Dallas economy.

	Lone Star Pathfinder The Texas Society of CPAs awarded Larry King, Managing Partner, the designation of Lone Star Pathfinder. The TSCPA identified Larry as a CPA who will lead the profession into the future by serving as a role model today in his professional life. In his letter of designation, Robert McAdams, 1999-2000 TSCPA Chairman said, "The CPA Vision calls for a future where CPAs deliver value by communicating the total picture, translating complex information into current knowledge, anticipating and creating opportunities and designing pathways that transform vision into reality. You are among the first group of our members who have been identified by their chapters as CPAs that aren't just wondering about the reality of the future — they are living that reality today."