About Jackson Thornton

Jackson Thornton is a certified public accounting and consulting firm with more than 200 professionals and associates in offices located in Alabama and Tennessee.

Contact Us

Rod Ballard
(615) 869-2042
[email protected]

Terry Mitchell
(334) 240-3647
[email protected]

Jim Marshall
(334) 261-6483
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Woody Trimble
(334) 261-6451
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Jackson Thornton Utilities consults with electric cooperatives and municipalities to design rates, create business strategy, enhance technology and provide training. Please click here for electric our brochure.

Services Include

Strategic Planning. Our comprehensive approach to developing long-range business goals and strategies is a vital to helping our clients prepare for the future. We can also assist you in the development of Feasibility Studies to evaluate projects and the creation of Business Plans to pursue opportunities.

Cost of Service and Rate Design. We develop and design cost of service and rate analysis, which will reveal your cost to provide service for each rate class and provide the foundation for rate justification.

Financial Planning. We assist in establishing financial goals with both short-range and long-range financial forecasts.

Organizational Review. We evaluate your organizational structure, management and staffing, drawing on our extensive experience with daily operations of utility companies.

Competitive Assessment. We evaluate operational performance and the ability to compete based on financial and performance audits, providing comparisons to industry standards or other utility benchmarks.

Special Accounting Services. We customize accounting services, offering a variety of options that range from income tax planning to evaluations of work order systems, depreciation studies, internal control reviews and calculation of post retirement benefit obligations.

Expert Testimony. In legal proceedings or before regulatory bodies, we give expert testimony based on our extensive knowledge of the financial aspects of the utilities industry.