Blake Johnson, CPA
Managing Partner, Chair of Food and Agriculture Industry
Blake Johnson, CPA, is Managing Partner of Cooper Norman and Chair of the firm's Food and Agriculture industry group. He sets direction for one connected team working across six offices in Idaho and Utah, and he owns how the firm shows up for food and ag clients. The questions that reach his desk are the ones with a season, a lender, and a number attached.
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About Blake
Two roles sit on Blake's desk. As Managing Partner, he is accountable for how Cooper Norman runs: how work moves between the six Idaho and Utah offices, how five service lines (Tax Planning & Advisory, Client Accounting Services, Audit & Assurance, Business Valuation, and Business Transition Planning) operate as one team instead of five, and how a firm at this since 1954 keeps earning the next engagement. As Chair of Food and Agriculture, he sets the standard for the firm's ag work and stays close to the accounts where that standard gets tested.
The calls he handles are the ones an owner cannot hand off. Entity structure settled before the purchase, not after. Whether to defer a contract into next year, and what that does to the tax position on both sides of the line. What the operation is actually worth the day a lender, a partner, or a sibling asks. Who is signing checks in ten years, and what has to be true now for that to hold. Blake gives owners a straight read on the trade-offs, in plain language, early enough to act on.
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