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EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science -
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

ASSOCIATIONS
AICPA
TSCPA 

LICENSES
Licensed in Tennessee 

Charles Groves is Principal in Charge of Operations, helping the Managing Principal implement and monitor the firm’s strategies for continued firm growth. He has more than thirty years of audit experience with Decosimo and was previously the Principal in Charge of the Assurance Practice. 

Charles currently serves on the Accounting Advisory Board for the Department of Accounting at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the Accounting Advisory Committee at Chattanooga State Technical Community College. He is also currently serving as  Secretary of the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants (TSCPA) and is a member of the council. He has served on the Board of Directors of the TSCPA and on its peer review and professional development committees. Charles is a past president of the Chattanooga Chapter of the TSCPA. 

He is the past chairman of the audit committee for the Tennessee Baptist Convention and the Cherokee Council of the Boy Scouts of America, and he has served as vice chairman of the deacon council and chairman of the budget committee of First Baptist Church of Chattanooga. He also served as treasurer of the Mental Health Association of Southeast Tennessee for over ten years. 

Charles graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.