Why Patrick Accounting Moved Offices and Why This One's Different

I started Patrick Accounting in 2003 in my kids’ playroom with a laptop and one client. Twenty-three years later, our Memphis team just moved into a 30,000-square-foot building on Goodlett Farms Parkway in Cordova.

Six offices in 23 years sounds like a lot. It is. 

But every single move happened for the same reason: We ran out of room for the people doing the work. This one is no different. The scale is.

Six Offices, One Reason

The short version: a 600-square-foot room at Stable Run in 2004, shared with my mother-in-law Cathy's travel business. Then Cordova Station. Then Forest Centre in Germantown. Then a building near Poplar and I-240 in 2016. Then Murray Avenue. Now Goodlett Farms.

Somewhere in the middle of all that, we started a payroll division in 2009, renamed it Whirks in 2019, and hit our 20th anniversary in 2023. The offices got bigger because the team got bigger, and the team got bigger because business owners kept trusting us with their books, their payroll, and their peace of mind.

At a Glance
How it started: 2003, a playroom, one laptop, one client
How it’s going: 30,000 sq ft in Cordova, 37 on-site in Memphis plus 15 remote
The goal: Nearly double the Memphis team to around 60
Coming up: ~100 firm owners visit for our 2026 Firm Visit, July 26–28

Why We Moved Now

Our Murray Avenue office has served us well for many years. During that stretch, we’ve made the Inc. 5000 list seven years running, from 2019 through 2025. That kind of growth is a great problem to have, right up until you run out of desks.

Right now, we have 37 people on-site in Memphis and 15 working remotely. My goal is to nearly double that Memphis number to around 60 over the next few years. You can't do that in 11,000 square feet.

So, we bought this building in July 2025, filed renovation plans that October, and spent the past year turning it into something purpose-built. The design came from Memphis firm 4FDesign, the build-out from Walker General Contractors. It’s a Memphis project through and through.

What We Built Into the New Space

A bigger building only matters if it helps you do more of what matters. So, here's what we built.

A training center. We invest heavily in developing our people. Every person who touches your books, payroll, or HR meets a standard we take seriously. Now we have a space designed specifically for that.

Room to host. On July 26-28, about 100 accounting firm owners are coming to Memphis for our 2026 Firm Visit. For several years, we've opened our doors and shown other firms exactly how we run Patrick Accounting. And we’re not showing them a highlight reel. We’re showing them the real operations: pricing, onboarding, team building, mistakes and all. This year, we finally have a space that can hold that conversation the right way.

Room for our small business community, too. We now have room to put together great events. Networking, industry cohorts, Whirkshops, learning opportunities. We have the space to build the kind of small business community we know business owners are looking for.

A gym and the AfterWhirks bar. We don’t look at taking care of our team as just a perk. For us, it's a strategy. The bar has been part of our culture for years. The gym is new. Both exist because we believe the people serving our clients should like where they work.

10,000 square feet of opportunity. We're occupying 20,000 of the building's 30,000 square feet. The rest is available for the right neighbor, a complementary small business service provider who wants to share an address with us.

What the Move Means for Our Clients

If you're a client, nothing changes about your service. You get the same team, same people, and same focus on simplifying your financial and people complexities, so you can run a better business.

What changes is our capacity. More room means more people, and more people means more attention on your account, faster response times, and a deeper bench ready to help. A training center means a sharper team working on your books. The gym and the bar mean the people serving you actually like coming to work, and that shows up in your experience with us.

Our people are the heart and soul of our firm, and our mission is to simplify financial and people complexities and give small businesses the opportunity to thrive. None of that has changed. The building just changed to serve it better.

Where This Is Going

I don't know exactly what the next 23 years look like. But I do know what we'll be doing every day: staying focused on giving businesses the opportunity to thrive. For our team, for our clients, and for the business owners who trust us to help them build something that lasts.

If that's the kind of firm you want in your corner, come see what we're building. The doors are open.