Defining Our Legacy
Since 1973, Wright Ford Young has assisted closely held companies, family-owned businesses, and private foundations navigate complex financial, tax, and business challenges with confidence.
Headquartered in Irvine, California, WFY is one of Southern California’s largest independent CPA firms, serving clients throughout the United States and around the world. Our team includes 13 partners, more than 75 accounting and advisory professionals, and over 100 employees dedicated to delivering exceptional client service.
Who We Serve
WFY serves closely held companies, family-owned businesses, and private foundations throughout Southern California, across the United States, and around the world.
Our clients are typically small to mid-sized organizations with revenues up to $500 million that require a higher level of expertise, responsiveness, and strategic guidance than many smaller accounting firms can provide. Many clients come to WFY at an important inflection point in their growth. They’ve outgrown their existing CPA relationship and need a firm with greater depth, broader capabilities, and industry-specific expertise—without sacrificing the personal attention they value.
What our clients appreciate most:
- Direct access to experienced partners and advisors
- Proactive guidance throughout the year—not just at tax time
- Timely communication and responsive service
- Strategic insight that helps them make better business decisions
- Tax planning designed to minimize surprises and maximize opportunities
- Long-term relationships built on trust, accountability, and results
In short, our clients want more than compliance. They want a trusted advisor who understands their business, anticipates challenges, and helps them move forward with confidence.
How We’re Different
WFY is built to deliver something rare in the accounting industry: the depth and capabilities of a large, sophisticated firm combined with the accessibility, responsiveness, and personal attention of a long-term advisory partner.
Our structure allows us to serve complex organizations while maintaining strong, direct relationships with the clients we work with every day.
Clients benefit from a firm that is large enough to handle complexity, experienced enough to provide strategic insight, and close enough to remain personally invested in their success.
What sets WFY apart:
- One of the largest independent CPA firms in Southern California serving privately held businesses, family enterprises, and private foundations.
- Nationally recognized employee benefit plan expertise, as one of only 122 CPA firms in the U.S. that audit more than 100 plans annually.
- Deep specialization in estate and trust services, with one of the largest dedicated estate and trust tax practices among local CPA firms.
- A people-first culture focused on long-term relationships, supporting both client success and employee development.
- A commitment to community impact, contributing 1% of annual gross revenue to local nonprofit organizations.
Uniquely Different in the CPA Space
Wright Ford Young has built a legacy of being different, for both customers and employees. Learn more about our unique approach to accounting, client service, and being an active part of the community.
Why this Matters
WFY occupies a unique position in the market—larger and more specialized than many local accounting firms, yet more accessible, responsive, and relationship-driven than most national firms. This allows us to deliver the technical depth and resources of a larger organization with the agility and personal attention of a local partner.
Many of our partners bring prior experience from large international accounting firms, giving clients access to a level of insight typically found in much larger practices—without the layers of complexity that often accompany them.
Specialized Expertise Where It Matters Most
Certain areas of our practice require a particularly high level of technical depth and experience.
WFY is one of only 122 CPA firms in the United States that audit more than 100 employee benefit plans annually. This level of specialization helps reduce audit risk, improve consistency, and support our clients’ fiduciary responsibilities to plan participants.
Our dedicated Estate & Trust team brings more than 50 years of combined experience in complex individual, estate, trust, and gift tax matters. We continuously monitor changes in tax law to help clients adapt their planning strategies and minimize potential exposure.
Stability and Continuity of Service
Our clients benefit from strong team continuity and long-standing professional relationships. Our retention of experienced staff leads to engagement teams that remain consistent over time, resulting in deeper institutional knowledge, greater efficiency, and more seamless service year over year.
Commitment to Community
WFY is deeply rooted in Southern California. Nearly 90% of our clients are headquartered in the region, and we take pride in supporting the communities where we live and work.
Each year, we contribute 1% of our gross revenue to local nonprofit organizations. Since 2007, our charitable giving program has contributed more than $2.3 million to causes throughout Southern California.