Built on the core values of experience, quality, and client service, SB & Company, LLC (SBC) is a public accounting and business advisory firm serving the Mid-Atlantic region.

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“A DIFFERENT CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM”

SB & Company, LLC, is truly different from other public accounting and business advisory firms. The firm’s founders envisioned a regional certified public accounting firm that offered the best in professional services, was multi-cultural with a mixture of different nationalities and ethnicities, and truly cared about its people. Diversity is just as necessary in minority firms as it is in majority companies. Our firm reflects the cients we serve and the community we live in.

SBC exists today as that ideal, built on the foundation of the “Big 4” experience of the partners and highly qualified professionals who apply industry and business knowledge to assist companies in successfully meeting their regulatory and business needs. The firm’s reputation with its clients in the areas of technical competence, industry knowledge and client service are true to the vision of the firm.

In creating our vision, SBC’s culture embraces diversity and emphasizes the importance of building relationships that last a lifetime with clients throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. The firm continues to grow as their client list expands through various channels, including word of mouth. In seeing the firm as one that will regenerate itself year after year, SBC is committed to mentoring and training its talented staff to pass the acquired knowledge on to the future generations at the firm.

None of this would be possible without the “Big 4” experience that the founding partners bring to the firm. Many firms are unable to build a skilled workforce and infrastructure necessary to serve large entities with complex transactions due to a lack of large firm experience. In addition, they are not rooted from an environment that instill into them how important talented staff, a commitment to training and quality, as well as a sound methodology are to successfully compete with other firms. Without this commitment it is difficult for these firms to retain highly qualified “Big 4” personnel.

Gray Smith, a previous partner at “Big 4” firms Arthur Andersen LLP and Ernst & Young LLP, Monique Booker, a senior manager with Arthur Andersen LLP, Jen Leary, a senior manager with Ernst & Young LLP, and Bill Seymour formerly with Arthur Andersen, LLP bring the necessary large firm experience to SBC to implement a successful strategy in truly being a “different kind of firm.”

There are a number of present and former “Big 4” clients that have sought the services of SBC because they are confident they will receive the technical competence of a larger firm, better client service than received at the “Big 4” level, greater partner involvement, and at a more reasonable price. Our success with these large entities speaks to the ability and foundation the firm is built upon.

Clearly, SB & Company, LLC, is different from other public accounting and business advisory firms.

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OUR PEOPLE

In hiring the most talented individuals in the market, our firm’s professionals offer the best skills and knowledge available in the accounting profession. Building on the firm’s “Big 4” leadership, many personnel have joined SBC from other international public accounting firms. Our professional staff is also recruited from college campuses throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.  The international firm culture is taught to all of our personnel from college graduates to seasoned professionals. In doing so, we teach our professionals that it is important to be technically competent and research technical issues.  Most importantly, a commitment to provide the best quality work and client service is vital to the firm’s success. As in any international firm culture, the emphasis is to work through the large and complex issues.  Most firms our size and many larger regional firms do not have this opportunity to train their people with a large firm mentality because they have not worked in international accounting firms with this culture.

We prosper as a firm of individuals who live up to SBC’s high standards by instilling a commitment to bring the best in quality and client service to all of our clients. We know that living our core values prepares us to serve your needs better than most firms, but it is also the foundation for our future, our growth, and our success in the market. While experience, quality and client service are the core values upon which we have built the firm’s foundation, our other core values – continuous learning, caring about people, accountability and delivering value – are the remaining internal foundation of our culture.

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A DISTINGUISHED HISTORY OF QUALITY

Remaining true to our core values, the SBC professionals provide the best in:

∙ Experience

∙ Innovative Ideas

∙ Responsive Services

∙ Integrity

∙ Proactive Solutions

∙ Service Methodologies

∙ High-Quality Service

∙ Reasonable Fees

∙ Technical Knowledge

 

“We want to help you achieve your short and long-term goals, but we also know that how we relate to each other before, during and after the engagement is just as important in building trust in our relationship.”

 

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