Over 46 years ago, J. Keith Hansen, Keith F. Barnett and Paul J. Maxwell merged their practices to form the firm Hansen, Barnett & Maxwell P.C.  The firm now has eight partners: Newell K. Johnson, Robert K. Bowen, Douglas D. Hawkes, Ross L. Youngberg, Preston M. Eichers, Mark V. Anderson, Paul O. Skeen and Michael F. Michelsen.  The founding partners have all retired from ownership and the firm is now successfully in its second generation and currently making the transition to a third generation of ownership. We believe this shows a sense of stability and reliability to our present and prospective clients. 

Founded in 1963, HBM has become a premier regional certified public accounting firm with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah. The firm has distinguished itself by providing a full range of audit, accounting, tax, financial, and information management services. The Firm has partners and staff with specific expertise in each of these services.  This means all of your business management needs can be serviced by a single firm. Many of our current clients have been with us since the Firm was formed, and we have grown to meet their expanding management needs. Your company can also benefit from this consolidation of services. You will be able to:

• Build a level of trust and accountability with a local firm that can service all your management needs.

• Increase profitability by entrusting your company's information to a firm with an established record of competence in managing that information for increased profitability.

1. •Save money by consolidating many services and by having access to a firm with the competence level of the "National" accounting firms but without the accompanying overhead level, meaning a fee structure providing extra value.
   

HBM’s excellence in all these services means increased efficiency and profitability for businesses in all types of industries. These industries include construction, manufacturing, wholesale and retail distribution, professional, financial, governmental, non-profit, and healthcare.

HBM has established a unique approach to servicing your audit-accounting, financial and tax needs. It is our attention to thoroughness and quality performance that helps your company become more productive and profitable.

Our practice is considered to be a general public accounting practice and has been divided into four departments:

Auditing/Assurance                Tax                 Client Accounting                 Consulting

All firm growth has been of an internal nature and is expected to continue as such in the future. We desire to retain our identity as a regional CPA firm in Salt Lake City, Utah and maintain a foundation of developing a personal relationship with our clients. Hansen, Barnett & Maxwell P.C. welcomes the opportunity to serve clients in all geographic locations.

Our Firm provides a full range of audit/assurance, tax, accounting,  and consulting services, consistent with ethical and professional standards and regulatory requirements in the United States and with the limitations imposed by our Firm's membership in the AICPA Division for CPA firms.

Many of our clients are serviced by our Client Accounting and Consulting Services departments. We have been involved in numerous systems design and installation of computerized accounting systems. Additionally, we provide in-house client accounting services for many of our clients, who have chosen not to maintain their own accounting systems or need help on a monthly or quarterly basis to reconcile their general ledger and make appropriate adjustments.

Hansen, Barnett & Maxwell P.C. is very quality conscious, maintaining a high level of quality control throughout the Firm. As a member of both the Center for Public Companies Audit Firms and the Private Companies Practice Section of the AICPA, our Firm is subject to the profession's program of self-regulation through Peer Review. Our accounting and auditing/assurance practice has been subjected to a Peer Review by other CPA Firms on eight occasions. These Peer Reviews are conducted once every three years, with Hansen, Barnett & Maxwell P.C. doing its own in-house inspections/review in the interim two years. Hansen, Barnett & Maxwell P.C. has received an unqualified opinion (a report with no qualifications) as a result of each of those eight Peer Reviews. Our latest Peer Review was completed in December 2008. We believe this helps to create an environment of quality and professionalism to ensure you receive the best service possible.

HBM is the Utah representative of Baker Tilly International, an organization of the leading regional accounting firms located throughout the world. Baker Tilly International is currently represented by over 110 independent member firms in over 145 countries which promotes the exchange of technical and administrative information and offers a worldwide client referral network.

HBM is licensed to practice in Utah, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Idaho, Maryland, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming. 

The firm is registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).

Hansen, Barnett & Maxwell P.C. is a member of the following professional groups and organizations:

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)

1. •Center for Audit Quality
   

2. •Private Companies Practice Section
   

3. •Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center
   

4. •Governmental Audit Quality Center
   

5. •Tax Division
   

      Other Professional

1. •Mountain West Capital Network
   

2. •Utah Hospital Association
   

3. •HealthCare Financial Management Association (HFMA)
   

4. •Western States Pension Benefit Association
   

5. •Salt Lake Estate Planning Council