Meet the Padgett New Orleans team!

Amanda Aguillard decided when she was 16 to become a CPA, and never looked back. She started Aguillard Accounting LLC, now Padgett New Orleans, in 2012, committed to running a cloud-based practice from anywhere in the world.

Amanda is the author of Xero: A Comprehensive Guide for Accountants and Bookkeepers. She was named one of the Top 50 Women in Accounting in 2018 and 2019, and has been a Hubdoc Top 50 Cloud Accountant in the past. She was the Xero Evangelist of the Year in 2016 and used her experience as an instructor of the Xero Certification course to co-found Elefant, a continuing education company for accountants and bookkeepers. She is also the founder of Accounting Salon, a thinktank of cloud accounting experts, and its virtual offshoot, SALONv.

While Amanda holds a Masters Degree in Taxation from the University of Denver, her passion is to help owners leverage technology to build their dream businesses. She is a Certified Instructional Systems Designer and regularly speaks at state CPA societies and industry technology conferences like Accountex, Engage, Clio Cloud Conference and Xerocon. She spends any spare time cooking for her two kids and reading historical fiction. She is slightly obsessed with Penzeys Spices and backcountry hiking.

Affiliations

• American Institute of CPAs
•  XERO ADVISOR CERTIFIED

Katie graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in Accounting and Finance. She worked in the corporate world and then retired from her controller position to be a stay at home mom. Fast forward a few years and she decided she needed a little more structure back in her life and started helping small business owners with their accounting needs. She loves the process of getting business owners from overwhelmed to running smoothly. She lives in Nebraska with her husband and 4 boys. She is still looking for her spare time.