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CPAmerica Advantage Frazier & Deeter bring their southern charm to England
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to the U.K. With Brexit talks and speculation of the U.K. leaving the European Union, member firm Frazier & Deeter, LLC (Frazier & Deeter), is ma k ing the exciting next step to help their clients achieve international success by opening a business advisory service office in the heart of London. We asked Managing Partner Seth McDaniel a few questions about their new endeavor. We wanted to know how the idea for opening an office in the U.K. came about. McDaniel said, “Frankly, it was our clients who planted this idea. We have had clients with operations in Europe for a while, and periodically, we received questions about whether we could also support them in Europe with one point of contact. We’ve had alliances in place that provided support to those clients, but we really liked the idea of having our own fully integrated team that would serve
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the client seamlessly.”
A key aspect of an international expansion involves knowing when the time is right to act. McDaniel furthered, “The more we talked to people in the U.K., the more convinced we became of the opportunity for Frazier & Deeter. With Brexit underway and increased regulatory scrutiny, U.K. companies will be breaking patterns and rethinking how they do things, and we will be there to help them.”
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When we asked more about the steps the firm took to operate overseas, he said, “While we have opened several offices in the U.S., obviously this was a much more complex undertaking with varying regulations, governing bodies, and so on. We See
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Williams & Company P.C. announces acquisition Williams & Company P.C. (Williams & Company), one of the leading regional accounting firms in the Midwest, announced the acquisition of the Estherville, Iowa-based, Nelson, Gayer, Versteeg, CPAs (NGV), accounting firm.
Danny Dekker, currently a manager in the Williams & Company Spencer office, will be leading the Estherville location through this transition and into the future. Dekker has been with Williams & Company since June 2007. He has extensive tax and audit experience and is looking forward to meeting and working with the clients and staff in Estherville.
The appeal of this acquisition is that both firms share the same values and core commitment to their clients. Current NGV clients will experience relatively few changes as the entire NGV staff will be joining the Williams & Company team. Their dedication to the success of their clients and expectation of personalized service will not change. NGV clients will continue to benefit from their Estherville staff relationships while gaining the resources and expertise available through Williams & Company.
Williams & Company currently has five offices in Iowa located in Sioux City, Le Mars, Onawa, Sheldon, and Spencer. The firm also has an office in Yankton, South Dakota. They are a full-service accounting and consulting firm providing traditional tax, accounting and attest services to individuals and businesses of all sizes, as well as services in the more specialized areas of government, not-for-profit litigation support, business valuations, wealth management, and agriculture.