Robert L. Bailes
CPA / ABV / CFF
Managing Partner & Founder
Litigation support, business valuation, forensic accounting, tax and consulting.
Accountants & Consultants Since 1991
Expertise, judgment,and Texas roots.
Bailes & Co., P.C. is a certified public accounting and consulting firm providing tax, accounting, valuation, litigation-support, forensic, and advisory services from offices in Tyler and Addison, Texas.
+ Founded in Tyler in 1991
+ Offices in Tyler & Addison
+ Serving clients across Texas
+ CPA, ABV, CFF & CITP credentials
Since 1991
A firm founded onwork that holds up.
Robert L. Bailes founded Bailes & Co., P.C. in 1991. From a single office in Tyler, the firm has grown into a full-service practice serving closely held businesses, families, and the attorneys who rely on our analysis — with a second office in the Dallas area, in Addison.
Our everyday work — tax preparation, tax planning, and business accounting — is backed by valuation, forensic, and expert-witness practice built for complex financial matters. When a matter grows complicated, it stays inside the firm: the professionals who understand your records work alongside the specialists who value the business, trace the assets, and defend the analysis in deposition and at trial — so nothing begins with an outside expert learning your file from scratch.
That combination of technical knowledge and practical business judgment is what allows our clients to make consequential financial decisions with confidence.
Who we serve
One firm, for a rangeof financial matters.
01
Closely held & family-owned businesses
Owners who need tax, accounting, and advisory work from professionals who understand how the business actually runs — and its value, ownership, and transitions.
02
Individuals & families
Personal tax preparation and planning, estate and gift strategy, family-business questions, and financial analysis in divorce and other disputes.
03
Attorneys & law firms
Business valuations, asset tracing, economic-damages analysis, fraud investigation, and consulting or testifying experts who prepare reports that withstand scrutiny.
04
Trustees, executors & fiduciaries
Trust and estate accounting, valuations, tax support, and investigative work for administrations and disputed accountings.
05
Oil & gas operators & interest owners
Joint-interest billing, revenue and royalty accounting, and specialized back-office support for producers and working- and royalty-interest owners.
06
Parties in complex financial disputes
Forensic accounting, asset tracing, and discovery support when the numbers are contested and the analysis has to hold up.
Our approach
One firm, one set of workpapers
Because the work stays within one firm, professionals build from an established understanding of the records, ownership, and reporting history. Clients spend less time re-explaining the financial background, and the analysis stays connected from the return to the valuation to the courtroom.
Built to withstand scrutiny
Our work is prepared to hold up financially, before regulators, and in litigation. Our professionals prepare reports and provide testimony in financial disputes and legal proceedings across Texas.
Direct access to experienced people
Clients work with the professionals who do the work — without unnecessary layers or bureaucracy.
Local relationships, sophisticated capabilities
Long-standing East Texas relationships, supported by the credentials and technical depth complex matters require — CPA, ABV, and CFF designations held on staff.
How the practice developed
From a Tyler practice tospecialized capabilities.
Bailes & Co. began in 1991 as a full-service local CPA practice. Over the following decades, the everyday tax and accounting work gave rise to specialized practices — much of it growing out of the same records and business questions clients already trusted the firm to handle.
Valuation, forensic accounting, asset tracing, litigation support, and oil & gas accounting became flagship services, giving the firm an unusually connected view of compliance, operations, value, ownership, and financial disputes.
1991
Founded in Tyler
Robert L. Bailes — a Baylor-trained CPA — opens Bailes & Co. as a local certified public accounting and consulting practice.
The 1990s–2000s
Specialties take shape
The firm builds flagship practices in business valuation, litigation support, forensic accounting, asset tracing, and oil & gas accounting — serving owners, families, and the attorneys who need defensible analysis.
Today
Two offices, one team
From offices in Tyler and Addison, Bailes & Co. pairs traditional tax and accounting with specialized financial analysis for clients across Texas.
Leadership
The accountants wholead the firm.
Chad Maddux
CPA / CITP
Certified Public Accountant
Tax services, IRS representation, litigation and fraud engagements.
In the community
Rooted in Tyler andEast Texas.
Beyond client work, the firm and its professionals stay invested in the region and the profession.
Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce
A longtime member of the local business community.
Tyler Economic Development Council
A contributor supporting the region’s continued economic growth.
Baylor University
Robert Bailes established an endowed scholarship for accounting students, continuing the firm’s long-standing ties to Baylor’s business school.
AICPA & Texas Society of CPAs
Firm professionals hold memberships and have served in leadership roles within the profession, including the TXCPA litigation-services section.
Firm facts
Answers aboutBailes & Co.
Bailes & Co. provides tax preparation, tax planning, outsourced accounting, business advisory, business valuation, litigation support, forensic accounting, and oil & gas accounting from a single firm.
The firm has two Texas offices: a main office in Tyler at 1357 Dominion Plaza, and a second office in Addison (the Dallas area) at 16051 Addison Road, Suite 214, available by appointment.
Robert L. Bailes founded the firm in Tyler in 1991. It has grown from a single office into a full-service practice with a second office in Addison.
Bailes & Co. works with closely held and family-owned businesses, individuals and families, attorneys and law firms, trustees and fiduciaries, oil & gas operators and interest owners, and parties involved in complex financial disputes.
Yes. The firm serves clients across Texas from its Tyler and Addison offices, and its professionals have provided expert reports and testimony in state and federal courts in Texas and Louisiana.
ABV (Accredited in Business Valuation) and CFF (Certified in Financial Forensics) are AICPA credentials for valuation and forensic-accounting work. CITP (Certified Information Technology Professional) recognizes expertise in accounting technology and financial systems. These are held on staff alongside the CPA license.
Yes. That integration is the point. The professionals who understand a client’s tax and accounting records work in the same firm as the specialists who value the business, trace assets, and prepare and defend analysis in litigation — so complex matters do not begin with an outside expert learning the file from scratch.
Yes. Bailes & Co. is regularly engaged by counsel as a consulting or testifying expert for business valuations, asset tracing, economic-damages analysis, fraud investigation, and financial-discovery support.
Yes. The firm provides bookkeeping, payroll, and outsourced accounting — including specialized oil & gas accounting — for businesses that want a dependable back office.
Yes. Bailes & Co. is a privately held Texas professional corporation, founded in Tyler in 1991 and led by Robert L. Bailes ever since.
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