About Us

William Brough, MBA, PB, came to the world of ledgers and tax returns by an unlikely route, which he calls “my ricochet career.” He majored in music, and spent time as a songwriter in Los Angeles, even landing a spot on a production team for a Stevie Wonder spin-off called Writer’s Quarters West.

To help make ends meet for his young family, Bill started a small business in 1988. “I envisioned doing it part time, and still keeping a foot in the music industry. But it quickly consumed all my time and energy, and I discovered – to my astonishment – that I enjoyed it.”

Running a business required learning how to keep the books, which led to an MBA in finance and accounting. Eventually, Bill was hired by Universal Accounting Center in Salt Lake City to teach their unique bookkeeping and tax preparation courses to students from all over the country. He also worked several seasons as a tax professional for H&R Block.

In 2008, UAC completely revised their tax curriculum, The Professional Tax Preparer. Bill was the principal author of the new course, meaning that when it comes to taxes, he can literally say he “wrote the book.”

Today, Bill is Tax Curriculum Specialist at Universal Accounting Center and maintains a growing accounting practice, while still writing and recording music on the side.