Your business is our primary concern.
ECS Financial Services, Inc. is a full-service accounting firm -- large enough to
provide comprehensive resources, yet small enough to offer highly personalized
service. By targeting our practice to entrepreneurial businesses,
high-net-worth individuals and the leasing industry, ECS enhances the service
available to clients often marginalized by the Big Five accounting firms.
With more than 150 years
combined experience working with closely-held businesses,
ECS can provide expertise and insight beyond the reach of bookkeepers and
accounting clerks. We're more than just accountants. As consultants and
strategists deeply involved in your business, and dedicated to your success,
ECS Financial Services, Inc. solves business problems.
We get to know your
business -- almost as well as you do. With in-depth
experience in manufacturing, real estate and construction, professional
services, leasing, and many other industries, ECS can short-circuit the
learning curve and focus on your special circumstances. And because half of our
staff has been with ECS for more than 10 years, start-up training pays off for
your business for years to come.
Our team goes the distance.
While larger firms rotate young staff through client assignments -- especially
smaller businesses -- ECS partners your business with a stable financial
management team, including a staff accountant and an accessible partner, backed
by the firm's full resources and expertise. By stabilizing your accounting
relationship, we ensure that ECS is ready to help project sales revenues and
production costs, develop business plans, project taxes and depreciation, and
secure financing that helps develop your enterprise.
We put technology to work
-- in our office and yours. Through ECS, your business
benefit from state-of-the-art technology usually available only to the largest
enterprises. To enhance efficiency, reduce costs and protect critical
deadlines, ECS depends on computerized tax libraries, automated tax preparation
and sophisticated job tracking software. A WAN links our office to Boston and
Denver, and our T1 line ensures 7 x 24 Internet access to download files,
exchange spreadsheets and advise you by e-mail -- in a hands-on work process
that saves time and money.
Our portfolio extends
beyond the conventional. At ECS Financial Services, Inc., you'll find not only
superior accounting
and taxation services, but
also diverse management
consulting services, including
recruitment and training of financial managers, negotiation of real
estate leases, selection of appropriate technology, development of benefit
plans, estate and retirement planning, and
business valuations. ECS is also one of the very few CPA firms
providing lease management
services to the equipment leasing industry.
We deliver value.
Because ECS Financial Services, Inc.'s partners represent an array of specialized expertise (CPA,
CMA, MBA, CVA, MST, CLP,
real estate broker, licensed business broker, registered investment licensee
and licensed continuing professional education provider), our team can meet
varied needs for business counsel -- whether you're launching a new product
line or acquiring a competitive business. Yet hourly fees for ECS partners with
15 years of experience are no more than Big Five fees for first-year staff
accountants.
History enriches our
practice. Founded as a sole proprietorship by
Edwin C. Sigel in 1962, ECS has grown by identifying and recruiting outstanding
CPAs; staying ahead of the technology curve; and acquiring other practices that
fit well with our mix of skills, experience and clients. Managing Partner
Samuel N. Oliva was the first to join Sigel, in 1978, prompting rapid
growth and relocation from the Chicago Loop to the first of several
increasingly spacious offices in Northbrook, Illinois. During the next 20+
years, Partners Jay Dahl, and
Nancy Geary joined the firm and ECS made a
series of productive acquisitions. As the practice grew, ECS enhanced client
service and capacity by installing the most up-to-date technology, upgrading to
a Microsoft NT server with Windows 95 workstations and adding a T-1 line in
1998. Today ECS Financial Services, Inc. occupies 7500 square feet of office space, with a staff
of 26, including six partners, 16 staff accountants, a firm administrator and
three technical support staff -- all dedicated to the needs of more than 1000
clients in diverse industries.
Superior accounting
services are available right in your own backyard. Located
in Northbrook, Illinois, just north of Chicago, ECS is minutes away from I-294,
with easy access to businesses throughout Chicagoland, including both the city
and suburbs.
We help clients plan
ahead, move ahead and stay ahead. Our entrepreneurial and
creative style helps clients improve profitability and achieve business goals.
We'll celebrate your success -- even when you grow beyond us: when you're ready
to go public, ECS Financial Services, Inc. will help you negotiate the complexities of financing
and underwriting and we also work with you to build a relationship with an
accounting firm that can lead your business into the future.
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