CPA Connect Advantage

CPA Connect is a national network of independent accounting firms that provides us with access to knowledge and markets across the country and around the world. CPA Connect is a companion network to CPAmerica International. CPAmerica is one of the largest networks of independent CPA firms in the United States, with membership of more than 70 major independent firms. Through its affiliation with Horwath International, CPAmerica International is the largest affiliation of CPA and consulting firms in the world.

Firms accepted for membership in CPA America International must meet high standards of excellence in all aspects of practice, then continue to pass strict quality reviews every there years.

Likewise, CPAmerica firms and the CPAConnect executive office carefully screen firms that seek membership in CPAConnect, offering affiliation only to selected small practitioners.

Please take a moment and read our Press Release from November of 2000 announcing our acceptance into CPAConnect:

11/22/00

Strebel & Strebel CPA's
Paul A. Strebel – Partner
400 Warren Road
Ithaca, New York 14850
607-257-0858
www.strebelcpa.com

For immediate release

Strebel & Strebel CPA's: Small Firm with a Big Network

Strebel & Strebel CPA's have a new secret weapon.

As a small CPA firm in a sea of big name competitors, Strebel & Strebel CPA's has learned how to remain local and personal, yet offer the services of the big firms.

The secret? A national network of small CPA firms called CPAConnect. Strebel & Strebel CPA's has recently been accepted for membership.

Strebel & Strebel CPA's shares resources and expertise with similar-sized firms around the country at conferences, through Internet communications and conference calls. The firm also has access to a wide array of marketing materials, CPE training, quantity purchasing discounts and practice management materials available through CPAConnect and its companion network of larger firms, CPAmerica International.

“We joined CPAConnect to ensure that our clients never outgrow our services,” says Paul Strebel one of partners at Strebel & Strebel CPA's. “Now we feel we are on the leading edge of the profession. If we don’t have the personnel or industry expertise to provide necessary services to a client, we can call on the assistance of the network affiliate. It is very worthwhile to be able to talk to someone out of the office to get a different opinion.”

More than 75 sole practitioners or small CPA firms across the country are members of CPAConnect. Typically, they are sponsored by a larger CPAmerica International member in their market. The Strebel Planning Group was sponsored for membership in CPAConnect by Eldredge, Fox & Porretti, LLP, the Rochester area member of CPAmerica International.

CPAmerica International includes 70 of the largest independent accounting and consulting firms in the United States and, in strategic alliance with Horwath International, has become the largest network of CPA firms in the world, with more than 10,000 professionals worldwide.

CPAConnect members are able to reap many of the benefits of the larger association while maintaining their autonomy and drawing on the expertise of their larger sponsor firm in noncompetitive joint ventures.

“Our relationship not only with CPAConnect, but with CPAmerica International, has opened up a tremendous pool of resources and expertise to help us better serve our clients,” Strebel said.

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