Earlier this month, more than 215 accounting professionals from 138 member firms gathered at the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort in San Antonio for the 2026 PASBA Spring Marketing & Technology Conference. Among them were TMA founder Tyler Thompson, CPA, TMA Technology Manager Jack Thompson, and TMA Senior Sales Representative Jonathan Lindorf.
For Tyler, the week marked a significant milestone: he assumed the role of Board President for the Professional Association of Small Business Accountants (PASBA) for the 2026-2027 year, succeeding outgoing President Carl Corneliuson of Corneliuson & Associates in Minneapolis.
It's not Tyler's first time in the role. He previously served as PASBA Board President for the 2011-2012 year and has served three terms on the board over his two decades of active membership in the Association. In 2017, PASBA recognized Tyler with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
PASBA is a national association of accounting firms that specialize in serving small businesses. Member firms share best practices, methodologies, and benchmarks for delivering accounting, payroll, and tax services. The Association's semi-annual conferences focus on the practical work of running a small business accounting firm well, and on improving the experience of the small business owners those firms serve.
TMA Accounting has been an active member in PASBA since 2005.
Tyler's week in San Antonio included:
Jack Thompson, TMA's Technology Manager, attended his fifth PASBA conference this year and has been an active member of the Association since 2024. In San Antonio, Jack focused on learning from peer firms and technology vendors about how they're building out practice management technology, reporting platforms, automations, and AI tools — investments TMA has been making throughout 2026.
Jonathan Lindorf, TMA's Senior Sales Representative, was also in attendance, where he helped lead workshop sessions focused on helping match small businesses with the services they need. Jon has attended numerous PASBA conferences since joining TMA in 2011.
Our involvement in PASBA isn't about industry awards. It's how we stay sharp.
The accounting profession has changed considerably over the last decade — and is changing faster now. The way small business owners search for help, the technology available to deliver services, the expectations around client service and clarity, the regulatory environment, the role of AI in everything from bookkeeping to tax prep: all of it is in motion. PASBA gives us a place to compare notes with peer firms across the country that are working through the same shifts.
When Tyler presents continuing education classes for PASBA, walking new firm owners through what works, he's drawing on what TMA has learned over 25+ years of serving small businesses across Indiana. When he sits in a roundtable with the leaders of other large PASBA firms, he's bringing back ideas that show up in how TMA serves the businesses we work with, in our services, our technology stack, and in the ways we measure whether we're actually doing right by the people who trust us with their accounting, payroll, and tax work.
Tyler's term as Board President runs through the 2026-2027 year. PASBA's next conference will be held in Louisville, KY, November 2-5, 2026, and TMA expects to be there.
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