Spiritual Guidance, Victory, Flight, Following one's intuition, Inspiration,
SuccessThroughout history, man has held the most prominent celestial body of the Sun as a deeply meaningful symbol. In ancient Egypt the Winged Disc of the Sun was a symbol of great significance, and this is is where we came upon this imagery to represent fundamental concepts that are embodied in our approach to service. Find out more about Egyptian Sun Mythology: The Sun God - Re The Winged Disc of Horus
The ancient Winged Disc symbol is thought to be composed of the disc of the sun, with coronal plumes extending from it as viewed at the time of a total solar eclipse (and thus being seen as the wings), with the swirling solar gases seen as the uraei (the hooded cobras). And, as the myth of Horus Behdety explains, the Winged Disc was placed placed over the doorways of the Egyptian temples for protection.
Over the ages, the Winged Disc has evolved stylistically and in symbolization to have a "modern" interpretation of including the following concepts:
Spiritual Guidance, Victory, Flight, Following one's intuition, Inspiration,
Success
Wise guidance on a spiritual level
Ability
to rise above problems or difficulties
Achievement
A time for reflection
These qualities influenced us to the use the
Winged Disc as our name and
logo symbol, because they reflect personal and public attributes that we strive
to attain.
Ok, we named our company after an ancient Egyptian symbol, and we added "technologies" because that's what we're all about. But where did we come from, and what got us to this point?
Winged Disc is a Limited Liability Company formed in June 2003 as a spin-off of the technology sales and consulting practice of Haiden W. Turner & Associates, a public accounting firm originally formed in 1991. From its inception, Haiden W. Turner & Associates had a significant focus of its operations on accounting software sales, implementation, training, and support. In December 2002, Haiden W. Turner & Associates sold its accounting and tax business, while retaining certain major clients and the core accounting software business. The decision was then made to create a new entity, clearly specialized on the strengths of the practice that had been in place for years, but without any of the distractions of being seen as fundamentally a tax and accounting business.
This transition has positioned Winged Disc uniquely as having a long history of working closely with small and medium-sized organizations in the areas of income and payroll taxes, accounting and financial management, as well as accounting software and systems, and now concentrating solely in that area. The company has the hands-on knowledge and experience of what is needed to achieve the necessary end-results in the areas of taxes and financial reporting, but is now not caught-up in the rat race of deadlines and the quagmire of burdensome professional regulations that, in many cases, stand in the way of getting the job done.
Haiden W. Turner is the founder of Haiden W. Turner & Associates and Winged Disc. Mr. Turner holds a Masters of Business Administration, with emphasis in Accounting, from Auburn University and was a practicing Certified Public Accountant from 1979 until the sale of Haiden W. Turner & Associates in 2002. Prior to the the formation of Haiden W. Turner & Associates, Mr. Turner had been a partner in two other local CPA firms, and before that had been a Audit Senior Manager in the Dallas office of the international firm, KPMG.
Mr. Turner has been affiliated with Great Plains since 1989, and has been a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor with Intuit since the inception of the program in 1997.
Yes, we have a mission statement, and it's relatively short and to the point:
We seek to continually develop knowledge of practical, high-technology tools and resources in order to be expert at providing solutions that are clearly recognized as effective and valuable for the financial, accounting, and business management needs of businesses and not-for-profit organizations.