Raleigh Bailes, Jr. is a practicing Certified Public Accountant, a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Professional and is accredited as a Personal Financial Specialist by the AICPA. Raleigh began his career in the financial planning industry in 2000, and joined Bailes Bates and Associates, LLP in 2003.
Raleigh provides income tax and accounting solutions to individuals and businesses in a variety of industries. His expertise is working with closely held businesses and high net worth individuals. Generally this would include helping clients with start-up businesses choose their business entity, set up bookkeeping and payroll processing, and create efficient income tax strategies. He works with clients all year round on income tax compliance, projections, planning, and resolving IRS matters.
In addition to his work with Bailes Bates & Associates, Raleigh is also a partner and Financial Advisor with WMA Financial, LLC and is a licensed investment advisor representative. Visit www.eWealthAdvisors.com
Raleigh graduated from Texas Tech University with a BS in Family Financial Planning, and later earned his Certificate in Accounting from the University of Houston. Raleigh is an active member of the national and local chapters of the Financial Planning Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Texas Society of CPA’s and the Houston Chapter of the Texas Society of CPA’s. He is also a member and alum of the Delta Mu chapter of Beta Theta Pi.
Raleigh, his wife Heidi, and their children Braden, Bella and Colin live in Richmond. In his spare time, he is an active member and past President of the Sugar Land Rotary Club. He is also Treasurer of Parks Youth Ranch, Treasurer of Rotary District 5890 and Secretary of Sugar Land Rotary Foundation.