Professional Services

The Professional Services Industry Group at LaPorte, a Mauldin & Jenkins Company, knows about providing professional services. It’s our business, too. We understand that members of these firms and practices – whether architects, engineers, physicians, lawyers, or others – excel at their professions, focusing on and dedicated to providing specific services to meet their clients’ needs.

We also understand the challenge we all face of finding the time to focus on our own business needs, on simply running our businesses. Issues like strategic planning, internal controls, financial forecasting and budgeting, and growth initiatives understandably take a backseat to client needs.

This is when it makes sense to develop a team of trusted advisors, including accounting and business advisory firms. Our industry professionals provide audit, tax, and business advisory services to our clients. And, as a large, growth-directed, independent, professional services firm, we have a firsthand understanding of the importance of growing a business.

With LaPorte, you can address profitability issues without sacrificing your primary focus on clients by letting LaPorte focus on your strategic business management – from inception through growth cycles and/or economic declines.

Commitment to Meeting Your Needs

The dedicated and proactive CPAs, tax professionals, accountants, and practice management consultants at LaPorte help identify problems and develop practical solutions and management practices related to cost controls, cash management, billing and collections, and financial metrics.

Our firm also works hard to establish best practices in talent development, market eminence, profitable growth, merger identification and integration, and customer and employee retention for our clients and ourselves.

Selected Client Base

• Architectural firms
• Engineering firms
• Law firms, including de novo firms and law firms with 10 to 100 attorneys
• Physician practices

Services to the Industry

• Accounting support
  • Monthly financial statements
  • Outsourced controllerships
  • Time and billing system support
• Agreed-upon procedures
• Audits of financial statements and qualified plans
• Internal control assessments
• Strategic consulting
  • Alignment of firm strategic objectives with vision and values
  • Annual budgeting/financial forecasting
  • Benchmarking and key operational analyses
  • Business growth consulting
  • Business succession planning
  • Partner compensation plan design
  • Partner conflict resolution
  • Profitability improvement
• Software selection consulting
  • Coyote Analytics
  • Juris
  • Omega
  • Quickbooks
  • Rippe Kingston
  • Sage
  • TABS
• Strategic planning and retreat facilitation
• Tax planning and return preparation

For information about the services Mauldin & Jenkins provides to professional service firms, visit https://www.mjcpa.com/industries/professional-services.