We only looked at what anyone can see.
- Who
- The 80 firms on a list of certified public accountants published by New Hampshire Business Review
- When
- 3 Sep 2026
- How
- Public information only. We contacted no firm and logged into nothing.
- Names
- None, ever. Their results stay out of search.
- Websites
- 27 could only be read by a person, so website counts are out of 53.
- A low grade
- Is not a badly run firm. It shows how little of its care a stranger can check.
No A. No B. No C either.
The same few doors were open on nearly all of them.
- 0
- 0
- 0
- 19 of 80
- 61 of 80
A profession built on trust, with no way to prove any of it.
80of 80
No way to prove an invoice, letter or email came from the firm.
80of 80
- 5 had nothing
- 75 had part of it
Had not switched on the free setting that stops their web address being pointed elsewhere.
61of 80
- 61 stopped part way
- 19 finished
Email can still be sent in their name and land in a real inbox.
Nobody here did anything wrong. All of it can be fixed.
Get a website. Keep the licence current. Answer the phone. It stopped being enough, quietly.
Tax season
A fake letter in a firm's name is most believed when a client was just told to pay.
The referral that never arrives
You never see the client you did not get.