Ford Baker, CPA, has over 35 years of experience in the public accounting industry, with over 20 of experience running a firm, BaCo Group, PLLC. In that role, Ford always sought to improve the efficiency of his firm through technology and forward-thinking. His passion was built out of a unique backstory; in 2012, he weighed almost 400 pounds, but by 2014 he had changed his life and rode a bicycle from Canada to Mexico down the Pacific Coast Highway. He had a passion and focus on eliminating the clutter in his practice that created the 400-pound version of himself that he did not want to see return. Ultimately, Ford developed an in-house transaction-based workflow using Excel and various other off-the-shelf utilities that gather data and work with data more real-time. This workflow concept can change the industry from a reactive service switching from putting last year’s balances on the previous year’s returns to proactive services, teaching clients the impact of this year’s numbers on their business, its exit value, and next year’s tax bill today.

Jason graduated from Arkansas State University in 2004 with a B.S. in Corporate Finance and received an MBA from Arkansas State University shortly thereafter. He later received a second master's degree when he graduated from Texas A&M University - Commerce with a Master of Science in Accounting. He began his finance and accounting career in 2005 with Morgan Stanley and went on to add more than 5 years of management consulting experience nationally to his extensive finance and banking career before making the shift to focus exclusively on tax accounting, advisory, and planning engagements. Jason joined EW Tax in August of 2017. His practice focuses primarily on tax planning for small-to-medium sized business clients, closely-held family business advisory, gift and estate tax consultation, and related tax preparation, filing, and compliance matters.