Our achievements

Recognition for company culture
and community involvement.

Best Firms to Work For

Top 100 Best Accounting Firms to Work For

AGH has consistently been named one of the 100 Best Accounting Firms to Work For by Accounting Today and Best Companies Group. The awards, which are published in October of each year, are designed to identify, recognize and honor the best employers in the accounting industry, and no other firm in the region has earned so many consecutive placements on this distinguished list. The Best Accounting Firms to Work For awards are open to accounting firms across the country. Entries are evaluated based on two categories: 75 percent weighting for responses to a survey of firm employees, and 25 percent for an extensive questionnaire about the firm’s workplace policies and processes. Nearly 90 percent of AGH’s employees responded to the most recent survey.

Best Firms For Women

Best Firms
For Women

Accounting Today and Best Companies Group also utilize the information from the annual list of Best Firms to Work For to identify firms that offer the best workplaces for women in the profession. AGH came in at #5 on the list for 2018, the second year of the award report. In order to be named a 2018 Best Firm for Women, a firm was required to have either a minimum of 25 female employees or women must represent 25 percent of staff. In addition, the female response rate to the Best Firms to Work For anonymous employee survey had to be greater than or equal to 50 percent. The list is ranked in order of percent of positive female response, from largest to smallest.

Best firm for young accountants

Best Firm for Young Accountants

Accounting Today and Best Companies Group also utilize the information from the annual list of Best Firms to Work For to identify firms that offer the best workplaces for young accountants. AGH came in at #10 on the list for 2019. In order to be named a Best Firm for Young Accountants, the firms were required to have a minimum of 15 employees under the age of 30 (or 10 percent of total employees, whichever is greater); at least 10 employees under the age of 30 completing the Best Firms to Work For employee survey; and a 40 percent or greater response rate for employees under the age of 30.

Best Places to Work

Wichita Business Journal Best Places to Work

Honoree: 2020, 2019 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009

Large company category winner: 2013

AGH is consistently named a Best Place to Work by the Wichita Business Journal. In 2018, AGH was an honoree for the tenth consecutive year. In 2013, AGH won the large company category, which includes companies with more than 100 employees.

United Way Spirit of Caring

Spirit of Caring Award

Each year the United Way of the Plains recognizes four organizations with the Spirit of Caring Award, its highest honor. Recipients are chosen for their overall community support throughout the year with United Way. In 2010 and again in 2018, AGH received the medium organization (50-299 employees) category award.

Over the Years Award

Over the Years Award

In 2000, AGH was honored by the Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce with the Over the Years award. The Over the Years award is given to companies and organizations that have exhibited a long-standing performance as good business citizens and are major contributors to our area’s economic well-being.

AGH earns spot on Forbes list

AGH was one of two CPA firms with Wichita offices that were named to Forbes' 2021 list of Best Tax and Accounting Firms.

Read more from the Wichita Business Journal's coverage
Can employers require the Covid-19 vaccine for their employees? Here's the latest guidance

In this article, AGH's Carrie Cox discusses the implications of the arrival fo the Covid-19 vaccine for employers.

Read more at the Wichita Business Journal
2020 Executives of the Year: Paul Allen

AGH Chief Executive Paul Allen was recognized in the inaugural class of the Wichita Business Journal's Executives of the Year Awards. The awards program honors the C-Suite executives who make their companies grow and thrive.

Read what Paul has to say about leadership
2020 Women Who Lead - Professional Services: Cindy McSwain

The Wichita Business Journal profiled Cindy McSwain as part of its Women Who Lead series, this one recognizing women in professional services.

Read Cindy's comments about leadership and a career in professional services
2020 Administrative Excellence: Kathy Armbruster

AGH Office Manager Kathy Armbruster was recognized in the inaugural class of the Wichita Business Journal's Administrative Excellence Awards.

Learn more about Kathy's career in administration
If there's a positive Covid-19 case in your workplace, what do you do?

In this Q&A with the Wichita Business Journal, AGH's Carrie Cox shares her advice for employers navigating questions and handling Covid-19 in the workplace.

Read her top advice