Hollis CPAs and Associates (HCPAs) is a full-service CPA firm offering tailored accounting, audit, and tax services from a dedicated team of accounting professionals. Our mission is simple: to provide clients with superior tax, audit and accounting solutions that assists them in meeting their financial objectives and business requirements.
Our firm incorporates core values consisting of trust, honesty, integrity, and accountability into each engagement. The fundamental principle interwoven into our Code of Conduct emphasizes that employees are to maintain professional relationships with clients in a respectful, honest, and accountable manner. We embrace and encourage open client communications throughout the entire year instead of just during the work assignment with the goal of keeping clients apprised of tax and accounting changes that could affect their financial position and provide them with insights to help them plan accordingly.
While our firm is small, we utilize exceptional accounting tools and software and operate in a manner much like larger firms. We embrace and incorporate technology into each of our engagements by automating and streamlining workstreams by utilizing digital software. Our approach provides clients with a secure, effective, data-driven collaborative customer experience. This integrated approach reduces manual, repeatable tasks while creating improved productivity, increased quality, and enhanced efficiencies. Our cloud-based accounting, tax, and audit software provides us with secure access to client data, which enables us to monitor and accelerate progress on each engagement.
We value our membership in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and recognize its commitment to promote high standards and quality in accounting and auditing services provided by AICPA member firms. Hollis CPAs and Associates is proud of our reputation of providing clients with the same quality driven professional services. As part of this commitment, we continuously monitor our system of quality control, and we comply with AICPA standards that require us to subject our policies and procedures involving the preparation, review, and audit of financial statements to an independent audit or “System Review.” The objective of a System Review is to boost quality in the accounting and auditing services provided by AICPA member firms. This goal serves the public interest and enhances the significance of our AICPA membership. Hollis CPAs and Associates’ system of quality control is designed to comply with the AICPA’s high quality control standards. Our most recent peer review, dated August 25, 2021 (for the year ending December 31, 2020) rated Hollis CPAs with a “pass” rating, meaning that our system received the AICPA’s top rating by its design and with our staff complying with our policies and procedures in all material respects.
Lane Hollis, President and CEO of Hollis CPAs and Associates, P.A.
Mrs. Hollis and her husband reside on Amelia Island. They both are avid Jacksonville Jaguar fans and enjoy supporting and being part of the Jacksonville, Amelia Island and Fernandina Beach communities.
Her work knowledge is extensive with over forty years of accounting and audit experience. Before founding Hollis CPAs and Associates, Mrs. Hollis worked as a corporate manager in the Internal Audit department at Jacobs Engineering, Inc. While working at Jacobs she conducted audits and investigations involving projects in the aerospace, technology, infrastructure, transportation, pharmaceutical. and other engineering projects. Before Jacobs, Mrs. Hollis worked as an Audit Manager at Ernst & Young, LLC. (E&Y), and before E&Y, as a Senior Auditor at Coopers & Lybrand, LLC, and as a staff auditor at Peat, Marwick and Mitchell, LLC.
Before working in internal audit at Jacobs, Mrs. Hollis served as the Finance Manager in Program Control at Cape Canaveral Air Force station on its Launch Operations and Support Contract for Delta, Titan, and Atlas unmanned rocket missions. The contract also supported NASA’s Space Shuttle payload processing project for missions to the International Space Station.
Mrs. Hollis graduated with a BBA in Accounting from the University of Oklahoma, MBA from Oklahoma City University, and has completed several post graduate studies at Walden University. She has authored several courses on how to conduct forensic and fraud investigations and has taught numerous university level business courses at Keiser University, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, and MIS Training Institute/ACI Learning. Mrs. Hollis has conducted audits and investigations internationally, and has trained internal auditors, academic professionals, and government agency personnel in North, Central, and South America as well as in Europe.
Mrs. Hollis is a Certified Public Accountant licensed to practice in the state of Florida. She was also previously Certified in Financial Forensics. The CFF Credential is awarded by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and is granted exclusively to CPAs who are members in good standing of the AICPA which binds them to the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct.
Kathy Fett is the Senior Tax, Accounting and Audit Manager at Hollis CPAs and Associates. Mrs. Fett’s work experience is also extensive, with over 15 years of experience. Prior to working at Hollis CPAs, Mrs. Fett worked in both corporate and public accounting. Her current role is to oversee all aspects of the firms accounting, audit, and tax projects. Mrs. Fett was the lead representative on our firm’s conversion from Thomson Reuters software suite to the more robust Wolters Kluwer software suite, which includes a very extensive audit program that is also utilized by many of the top CPA firms in the country.
Mrs. Fett is licensed in the state of Florida. She graduated with a BBA in Accounting from National University in San Diego, California. She also holds an MBA with a concentration in Accounting from the New York Institute of Technology.
We also employ a team of professional staff accountants who are responsible for assisting clients in preparing and reviewing financial documents, state tax reports, and financial statements.
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