Aronson & Company’s (A&C) Private Business Group
(PBG) focuses on the financial accounting, income tax and business needs of closely-held entrepreneurial and professional businesses in this ever-changing financial marketplace. We use our technical skills and real world practical experience to help clients quickly define and achieve their financial goals. This approach helps us exceed our clients’ expectations. Our clients, running the gamut between start-up and middle market companies, represent a broad cross section of industries. Many of the services we offer are “industry specific” due to the depth of experience we have in those industries.

The PBG services a cross section of businesses, including:

• Health Care
• Law Firms
• Professional Services
• Hospitality
• Wholesale Goods Distribution
• Sports Management
• Automotive Services
• Publishing
• Global Business

The PBG is committed to providing the highest level of accounting, tax and management advisory services to our clients. As part of our commitment to excellence, each member of our team receives extensive continuing professional training.

The services we offer to more than 1,000 companies within the Greater Metropolitan Washington D.C. area include both traditional CPA services and non-traditional, valueadded management advisory services designed to help our clients exceed their strategic financial objectives. We invite you to learn more about the services we provide, our approach and how we can help you and your company.

Traditional accounting services we offer include:

Assurance Services | A&C’s assurance services are a combination of personalized consultation and compliance services with a full range of general-practice accounting and audit services. From the preparation of financial statements, to providing business and financial consulting, we work to perfect the nature of your business.

Tax Planning and Compliance | We focus on our clients’ needs and provide strategies and solutions to minimize overall tax costs and liabilities. We are as efficient as any accounting firm in preparing your annual federal and state income tax returns, but our real value is in the tax planning and analysis that is completed throughout the year.

Estate, Gift & Trust Planning | We can help make the daunting task of estate, gift, and trust planning into painless endeavors, taking you through each step of the planning process.

Value-Added Management Advisory Services

A well-managed company is focused on profit, planning, organization, management development, budgeting, innovation, leadership and culture. To help our clients meet the challenge of these key areas in a competitive business environment, we offer non-traditional management advisory services based on your company’s stage of development. These services are designed to assist our clients in achieving their strategic goals, operational efficiency, increased profitability, and market share.

Advisory services include:

• Benefit and retirement plan design and compliance
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Business succession planning
• Capital formation – debt and equity financing
• Cash management
• CFOship, controllership, and accounting outsourcing support
• Industry specific regulatory compliance matters
• Infrastructure identification and development
• Management succession planning and ownership transfer
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Profitability enhancement
• Structure compensation and equity sharing plans
• Structuring
• Valuation

While our business and management consulting knowledge and capability can be applied to any business setting, we have also developed very unique, industry-specific areas of expertise. To assist you in better understanding the specialized management advisory services, we invite you to talk with us to learn more about how we help our clients achieve their financial goals and strategic objectives.

Technology

An important part of the success of your business is your ability to manage information effectively. Our team of accounting and computer systems specialists can provide you with the technical support you require. In addition to technology consulting, A&C provides the sale and service of several of the most popular start-up and mid-level accounting software packages, including QuickBooks/Peachtree.