About BKD Fort Wayne

Tom Cottrell, the partner in charge, directs operations and administration. Debby Penar is the Fort Wayne recruiter.

For more than four decades, BKD’s Fort Wayne office has been a prominent accounting and consulting firm in Northeast Indiana with clients in all the firm’s major industry niches.

One of the largest in the city, BKD’s approximately 55-person Fort Wayne practice provides CPA and consulting services to approximately 2,200 clients.

Our Niches & Services

Our niches include health care, manufacturing/distribution, financial institutions, construction, real estate and not-for-profits/government.

Using RIA’s GoSystem RS, we annually process in-house more than 1,100 tax returns of all types.

The audit department annually processes more than 225 full-disclosure financial statements, including approximately 150 audit reports.

In addition to traditional compliance services, we assist clients with such value-added consulting services as financial planning, debt restructuring, feasibility studies, business valuations, projections and forecasts, business succession planning, accounting outsourcing, technology consulting and health care consulting.

Your Ties to the Community

We encourage our staff to become actively involved in community organizations and events and to participate in our BKD Foundation outreach where appropriate. It’s our way of supporting the community while expanding our network of business contacts.

Among the activities and organizations we support are the United Way, Chamber of Commerce, Boy Scouts, YWCA, Junior Achievement, March of Dimes, American Heart Association, Alzheimer's Association and National Kidney Foundation.

Through the BKD Matching Gift Program, we support accounting education at the major colleges and universities from which we recruit.

Your First Year

Facts About Our Niches

For More Information

Deborah S. Penar
Recruiter
260.460.4000