From a Kitchen Table in Fouke to the Inc. 5000: Texarkana Accounting Firm Earns National Recognition

TEXARKANA, Texas — A local accounting firm that started at a kitchen table in Fouke, Arkansas, has landed on one of the most-watched business lists in the country.

Sarah Berry, CPA, PLLC has been named to the Inc. 5000, Inc. magazine’s annual ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The honor caps a run of recognition for the Texarkana firm, which was also recently named one of the Top 125 Best Accounting Firms to Work For nationwide, a Top 3 finalist for Best Small Business in Texarkana by the Texarkana USA Chamber of Commerce, and Best Accounting Firm in Texarkana by Four States Living Magazine.

But the story behind the growth is anything but typical.

The firm began more than a decade into Sarah Berry’s tax and accounting career, at one of the hardest points in her life. When her youngest child was born with congenital heart defects, Berry left her full-time job to care for him. To help pay the bills during that season, she began taking on tax and accounting work from her home in Fouke — much of it done at the kitchen table.

What started as a way to make ends meet steadily grew into something bigger. Word spread, clients multiplied, and the home-based practice became a full-fledged firm built around helping business owners succeed.

Today, Sarah Berry, CPA, PLLC employs a team of 16 professionals serving businesses across the Four States region, and the firm recently moved into a brand-new office on Texas Boulevard in Texarkana.

The Inc. 5000 recognition puts the firm in notable company. The list has served as an early signal for some of America’s best-known businesses — companies like Microsoft, Under Armour, and Patagonia appeared on it in their growth years — and ranking requires sustained, verifiable revenue growth over a three-year period.

For the firm, the workplace culture recognition means just as much as the growth numbers. Being named among the nation’s best accounting firms to work for reflects the team Berry has built along the way — one that has grown from a single working mother at a kitchen table to 16 professionals serving the Texarkana business community.

“To see a business with such humble and deeply personal beginnings now receive national recognition for both its growth and its workplace culture is something we are extremely proud of,” the firm said in its announcement.

Sarah Berry, CPA, PLLC provides tax, accounting, and advisory services to businesses throughout the Four States area from its new location on Texas Boulevard.