Time-Line:

1957 Norm Anderson purchased a bookkeeping practice from Jack Duggan and started his accounting practice. The firm name at this time was Peterson Lorenz and Cole PLC. Norm didn't retire until 1986.

1963 Judy Hudson joined Norm Anderson. She started to retire in 2007, but as with most accountants she still comes in the office once a week even now in 2011.

1964 Larry Peretti bought into the firm. Larry's partner at that time was Jack Warner who was retiring, therefore Larry joined Norm. They ended up with two offices, one in the Fidelity building and one in the Farmers & Merchants building on Sprague. Larry retired to part time in 1991 and still is in the office during tax season preparing his clients' tax returns.

1968 Hugh Hurlbert joined in the Valley Office. He became partner in 1975 and retired in 2001.

1969 Norm and Larry broke off and became Anderson, Peretti & Co.

1970 Bill Crawford joined the firm at the downtown office located in the Old National Bank building. He became a partner in 1975 and retired in 2002.

1977 Bob Zins joined the firm, moving to Spokane from Great Falls, Montana. He became a partner in 1981.

1991 Bob Sanders joined the firm, moving to Spokane from Oregon to be closer to home. He has been a partner since 1993.

Today:

The knowledge and expertise at Anderson, Peretti & Co., CPAs P.S. is wide and deep. Of the accounting team we have in place today, many of them have several decades with the firm. Those who are newer to the firm have over a decade of experience in the public accounting world in total. Currently, the firm has 7 CPAs, 4 accounting professionals, and 2 administrative support persons at the height of tax season. Several of our team members continue to work year around, but on a reduced work schedule outside of tax season.

We expanded into St Maries, Idaho in the early 70's. Now our office there is open one day a week and staffed by Bob Sanders and Erica Young. We are focused on growing that office clientele, but in the meantime our current local clients enjoy the lack of a commute to our offices for drop off or pick up of accounting records.

Our services have expanded over the years, since we've been providing accounting and tax services since the beginning and now those services include business consulting, computerized accounting system support and training, and most recently, governmental accounting services. The process of providing those services has changed dramatically over the years, and the way we do business has gone very technological in recent years. Early in the firm, the tax returns may have been printed from a main frame computer and assembled by laying each page stack side-by-side in the conference room and walking around the table picking up page 1 from the first stack, page 2 from the second, etc. These days, like many businesses, we are paperless-- scanning, emailing, and efiling everything possible.

Anderson, Peretti & Co., CPAs P.S's connection to the Spokane Valley Chamber has been one of service, as Larry Peretti was the Spokane Valley Chamber president in 1971, and Erica Young currently serves as a Chamber Ambassador. We are proud to have maintained our Spokane Valley Chamber membership for over 50 years.