Why J. Edgar Group?
We’re CPAs, of course,
but we offer something different than the typical CPA firm.
No one knows your business better than you do. Yet you have questions and worries. “If sales are up, why aren’t we making more money?” “Can we afford to take on new staff yet?” “Will giving up this product really help our bottom line?” “What’s happening to this company’s dream?”
These aren’t questions your bookkeeper or accountant can answer at tax time. But J. Edgar Group is different. We get to know your business from every angle and all year round. We work with your management team, review your financial results, and can even attend your board meetings—because your dreams and comfort zones matter as much to your success as your financials. We’ll help you with budgeting, forecasting, monthly financial closings, and cash-flow management issues such as reducing expenses and improving margins and ROI. We can advise your staff on accounting issues and assist outside auditors. We’re available when you need us, not just when the IRS or the bank needs your financial information.
As CPAs, we crunch the numbers. As your partners in business, we keep you fully informed about what those numbers are saying. That’s how we can help you to foresee problems and prevent them, to recognize opportunities and seize them, to turn your dreams, know-how, and hard work into viable plans and achieve them.
Meet Our Team
Joanne L. Edgar, CPA
Joanne is the founder and Managing Partner of J. Edgar Group, PLLC. She has twenty years of public and private accounting experience.
Joanne graduated cum laude from Plymouth State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting in 1987. She began her career with KPMG and spent six years as a senior accountant in the audit department specializing in construction, service and manufacturing. She departed KPMG in 1993 and joined the management team of Kinderworks Corporation, as corporate controller. In 1996 she returned to public accounting with Connor & Associates, P.C., where she was the principal in charge of financial statement engagements and specialized in the service, construction and non-profit (A-133) audits.
Joanne is a member in good standing with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Business Network International. In addition, she is the current Treasurer/Player of the Lady Monarchs Hockey Organization and is a frequent speaker for Women in Business Institute and the National Business Institute on accounting and tax related matters.
Michelle E. Lambert, MSW
Michelle Lambert joined J. Edgar Group, P.L.L.C. six years ago to serve as the Company’s Operations Manager. She is the project manager for all individual and accounting service accounts. She coordinates all communications, client information security, scheduling, and data entry. She manages the firm’s human resources and marketing and advertising and website security. She obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Plymouth State University in 1990, and graduated cum laude with a Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of New England in 1997.
Peter F. Pike, CPA
At the beginning of 2009, Peter joined J Edgar Group as a Principal to follow his passion of providing financial management services to the small business owner. Peter began his career working as an Accounting Clerk for Slim-Fast Foods where he worked full time while going to school evenings to graduate with honors from St. Peter’s College in 1993. After graduating, Peter spent the next three years on the audit staff with KPMG. In 1996 Peter left public accounting and continued with his corporate accounting experience at Wright Express in South Portland, Maine. Peter spent three years with Wright Express before moving on to a Principal Accountant role with General Dynamics in Bath, Maine. In 1999 Peter took an Accounting Manager role with Gateway Computer in their internet sales division. After the downturn in the technology sector in 2002, Peter left Gateway and began a career in the waste hauling industry as a multi-location Controller. In 2004, Peter begin offering financial consulting services to the small business sector as well as Sarbanes-Oxley consulting services to publicly held companies until 2005. Mid 2005 he returned to the corporate accounting arena as a Regional Controller for Covanta Energy which is a leader in providing energy from waste to the power industry. In 2007 Peter went back to consulting providing the high quality financial management services to the small business owner.
Peter is currently a certified public accountant in both Maine and New Hampshire. He is also an active member with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.