About Rhode Island CPA Directory
What this is
A complete, free directory of every certified public accountant with an active Rhode Island license — 1,002 CPAs across 48 cities and towns and 212 licensed firms, plus 252 licensees with an out-of-state address and 376 with none on file. You can look anyone up by city or name without creating an account or paying anything.
Why it exists
Anyone with a preparer tax ID can charge to file your return. Only a CPA, an enrolled agent, or an attorney can represent you before the IRS if that return is ever questioned. The state publishes who holds a license, but the official lookup answers one name at a time and assumes you already know who you are looking for.
This site turns that roster into something you can browse by city. If you already know who you want, confirm they are on it in seconds. If you don't, tell us what you need and we'll make an introduction.
Where the data comes from
Every listing is built from the Rhode Island Board of Accountancy's public roster of licensees. Our copy is dated October 3, 2026.
The roster carries a name, a license number, a mailing address, the current term's dates, and a status. It does not publish phone numbers, email addresses, employers, or when someone was first licensed — so neither do we, and we cannot tell you what a CPA charges or specializes in unless they tell us themselves.
The roster does not include disciplinary history, and neither do we. A copy can lag reality, too, so every profile points you to the board's own lookup — confirm current status there before you hire anyone.
Only active licenses are listed
The board's roster of current credentials runs to 2,117 licenses — CPAs, firms, and Public Accountants. We leave out licenses still pending final approval, certificates without a license to practice, inactive licenses, and firm permits still marked “in renewal” years after their term ended. Public Accountant is a different credential from CPA, so those licensees are left out too. All of this is dropped before anything is published — not hidden behind a filter, but never written to the site at all — so a name you find here held an active license on the date above.
We also never publish home addresses or ZIP codes. The Rhode Island roster gives each licensee's mailing address, which for many sole practitioners is their home, so we keep only the city. The ZIP is used only to catch misspelled city names, never shown. City is as precise as this site gets.
If this is your listing
You can ask us to correct anything that's wrong, add details the roster doesn't carry, or remove your listing altogether — no reason required, no argument. Once removed, you stay removed through every later refresh. Get in touch and we'll take care of it.
Who runs it
I'm Brooks Conkle, an entrepreneur and online creator in Mobile, Alabama. I built CPAsinAlabama.com (opens in new tab) first, for my own state — as a business owner I found it genuinely hard to track down a good CPA, with the information scattered across outdated and clunky government search tools. Then CPAsinFlorida.com (opens in new tab), then a few more states — now including Rhode Island.
More about me and my other projects at brooksconkle.com (opens in new tab). Rhode Island CPA Directory is operated by Kea Marketing LLC. It is an independent directory, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Rhode Island Board of Accountancy or any state agency.
How it stays free
Browsing is free, always, and there's no charge to be listed — every active CPA on the state roster is here whether they know it or not. CPAs can optionally pay to upgrade a listing with a photo, bio, specialties, and contact details. On a few pages we also link to partner services and earn a commission if you sign up, always with a disclosure right next to the link. That's what keeps the lights on.
Upgraded listings are marked Featured and appear above the rest. Everything else is listed alphabetically by surname — we never quietly reorder the free listings based on who is paying, and a Featured badge means someone bought placement, not that we rate them more highly.
Questions, corrections, or complaints all go to the same place — our contact page.