Russell Bedford International - Three mergers about-face Russell Bedford Chicago convenance into 10-partner firm

Following the achievement of mergers with three added bounded CPA firms, Russell Bedford's Chicago member, BIK & Co, LLP, has developed into a 10-partner practice.

The close now has added than 50 cadre at its offices in Libertyville and Palatine, Illinois.

In February 2008, Folisi, Samz & Company of Schaumburg and Soprano & Associates Ltd of Arlington Heights abutting BIK. Then in June, BIK alloyed with Bayer, Kolof & Lev of Northbrook. These firms accept confused to BIK’s Palatine office.

Commenting on the mergers, Larry Schmitt, managing accomplice of BIK & Co, LLP, explained: “The humans at all three firms accept a continued history of confined the needs of privately-held, owner-managed businesses and individuals. Combining the accounting, audit, tax and consulting casework of the assorted practices accelerates our action of architecture a arch bounded close confined this market. In addition, all firms allotment the aforementioned ethics as BIK, including the attitude of accomplished service, abysmal ability and charge to the community.”

Douglas Samz, Partner of Folisi, Samz & Company stated: “Our analysis aggregation has consistently been one of our firm’s strengths. When we absitively to merge, we knew the close would charge to be committed to the aforementioned arete of analysis plan as we are; BIK meets that criteria. We are aflame about the synergy our two accumulated analysis teams will provide.”

“We absitively to seek an amalgamation with addition CPA close because we accept that a beyond organisation will acquiesce us to accommodate a added arrangement of casework and added abyss to our clients,” said Frank Soprano, admiral of Soprano & Associates Ltd.

And Sheldon Lev, Managing Partner of Bayer, Kolof & Lev added: “We are aflame about our alliance with BIK. We accept been analytic for such a close for a while. The alliance allows both firms to aggrandize and enhance the array of able casework we action to our clients, in accession to acceptance us to accommodated our clients’ accretion needs. We attending advanced to continuing our continued attitude of accouterment top above casework in our new environment."

For added information, acquaintance Larry Schmitt on +1 847 362 4310. Alternatively, appointment the websites at www.bikcpa.com and www.russellbedford.com .

Russell Bedford International was accustomed in 1983 by a accumulation of medium-sized absolute accounting practices aiming to adverse the bazaar ascendancy of the above multi-national accounting firms.

Russell Bedford is now a closely-connected all-around arrangement of absolute accounting and business consultancy firms in key locations about the world, and is represented by some 200 offices in added than 70 countries in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

All Russell Bedford affiliates are absolute firms alms all-embracing business admonition and casework to bounded and bunch clients. Most accommodate a abounding ambit of casework absolute accounting, auditing, tax advice, accepted business advice and banking consulting. In addition, abounding accept appropriate ability in accurate fields, such as all-embracing taxation or advice technology.

In January 2008 Russell Bedford International was been called one of the aboriginal 17 abounding associates of the IFAC Forum of Firms afterwards advertisement it has implemented a globally accommodating above affirmation programme, committed to the use of International Standards on Auditing (ISAs), and met added specific belief requirements.

Kempton Bedell-Harper
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