Influential Businesswoman Awards 2026 | 29 For example, Carrie goes to high schools and other educational institutions to teach students about the importance of financial literacy. She is continuously shocked by how many young adults enter into the real world with no education on how to manage their money or invest. The All Access Accounting team also support local non-profits, especially those concerning the safety and wellbeing of both women and children. When they are not giving back to local communities, these accounts in Southern Colorado can be found working towards the future of the firm, which is set to invest in its website and commercials later this year, reaching new customers outside of the relationships and referrals it has built. Alongside this, Carrie hopes to round out the year with 20 staff and a satellite office in Colorado Springs, as part of the next chapter in her firm’s evolution. In closing, Carrie said: “I am grateful for this award – truly! At the end of the day, to have conversations with business owners who are afraid, scared, and just don’t understand what’s happening – to ease their minds and calm their fears – is why we do what we do! To be of service! God’s will is our purpose! We are accountants with a servant’s heart.” More on All Access Accounting can be found at the web address below. Contact: Carrie Van Meter Company: All Access Accounting Web Address: https://www.allaccessaccounting.net/ Accounting CEO of the Year 2026 (Colorado): Carrie Van Meter Starting her firm against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic in July 2020, Carrie Van Meter has, with help from the grace of God, grown All Access Accounting to encompass 14 employees and almost 200 clients. The 14 full-time accountants and payroll specialists comprising this team tailor their services to the specific needs of every client’s business, leading them to serve as interpreters of the operational accounting language across every element and level of a client’s business. There is no special formula behind All Access Accounting’s success – “accounting is accounting”, Carrie explained – but what the team here do really well is treat every client as if they are the only client. The firm’s full-service approach is a perfect example of this, and something that Carrie embodies fully by leveraging her industry expertise. Almost three decades spent as a chief financial officer across robotics, fuel, oil, construction, and so on form the background of this CEO, who actually started out her career wanting to be a HR manager. She changed course after realising she could have more of an impact by educating and empowering people to impact the bottom line, as scaling their performance will lead to job success and employer stability. Becoming knowledgeable in finance was the next step, allowing Carrie to empower personnel at every level of business. “I opened All Access Accounting to empower small/medium-sized business owners to maintain, grow, and scale their businesses without being overwhelmed with the difficult language of accounting; all the while knowing and understanding their financial statements and achieving success in all capacities.” Since becoming a CEO nearly six years ago, one of the major factors Carrie has noticed is impacting this space is businesses being forced into standardised financial and tax packages, with no preparation or alignment with the owner’s passion, where they are at financially, or where they are looking to be a few years down the line. Overcoming this hurdle, All Access Accounting takes the complex nature of accounting, bookkeeping, payroll, and fractional CFO services and delivers interpretations made specifically to empower each individual business owner. Distinctions such as this have resulted in the firm quickly becoming the largest bookkeeper in the area. Carrie takes no selfish pride in this accolade, which she instead attributes to God’s allowance of the firm to serve the smaller business driving the US economy. Applying this same ethos to her own career, Carrie told us: “Influence means nothing if you are not helping somebody to grow. The real flex is how many lives you can positively impact. The legacy I leave will not be measured by what I have, but by who I have helped.” Carrie’s belief that real leaders build more leaders is what continues to guide her, and a number of initiatives have followed based around this support. Carrie Van Meter is the creator and CEO of All Access Accounting, a firm delivering personalised accounting, payroll, and fractional CFO services to clients in the US. Through these services, the firm’s aim is to ‘be of service’ in all business facets, adding value at every turn. For more on the work All Access Accounting carries out for businesses of all sizes, we spoke with Carrie, who has herself been recognised as the Accounting CEO of the Year 2026 (Colorado) as part of this programme. All Access Accounting
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