Barbara DeBaere Poppy
Barbara DeBaere Poppy, CPA, graduated from UW-Oshkosh in 1975 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree while working full time as an accountant and psychometrist for a group of psychologists. She spent the next ten years gaining experience in regulatory and public accounting with the State of Wisconsin and a local CPA firm, and in 1986, opened Poppy CPA in Madison, Wisconsin, to better serve the needs of skilled nursing facilities.
Barbara is an active member in various organizations for skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, CPA’s and women’s groups. As an entrepreneur, her life revolves around her clients’ needs during the week and during tax season. Her daughter is taking after mom, working towards her own CPA license in Texas while her son is a musician.
When not working, Barbara is off visiting and playing with family and friends who live all around the world: road and trail bicycling, skiing, kayaking, swimming, and scuba diving.
Email Barbara: barb@poppycpa.com
Our Mission
We choose to compete as a CPA firm, providing accounting, auditing, tax and consulting services for individuals, partnerships, corporations, fiduciaries and tax exempt organizations with a niche practice in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities.
We constantly listen to our clients, peers, trade groups and the community, and respond quickly to their current needs and anticipate their future needs. That is, we don’t wait to be asked, we offer our help when we see or hear of the opportunity to do so.
Each of us encourages and enables each other to perform at our highest potential of output and creativity and in doing so, we attain the greatest possible level of job satisfaction, so great that, we financially attain a continuous high level of profit which places us in the top ranks of our industry on our rate of return per person, recognizing that we can serve society only if we are financially viable. The final measure of our success is that, we earn the respect, confidence and loyalty of our clients, peers, trade groups and the community, by serving them so well that all profit by their association with us.
