About Us

The E&A Difference

The E&A difference is the commitment and value we bring to every engagement through deep and broad client relationships, not one-dimensional transactions. Clients often comment on E&A’s “personal and passionate professionalism.” Simply put: character matters!

The E&A CFO Group’s team members are talented generalists, each with their own core specialties, who understand how people inside organizations think. By combining these talents and utilizing our network of allied professional services firms, E&A meets changing service needs, including rapid growth and turnaround/crisis intervention situations. Because we’re proud of and enjoy working with our clients, we enthusiastically help you achieve your goals. Many clients have been with E&A for 20+ years!

Knowledge and insight are intangible products—and what we provide to clients. We know we must share that knowledge with you in meaningful and useful ways to have value. The E&A team continually looks for ways to deliver that knowledge and insight and to learn from clients by providing frequent opportunities for feedback.

Every year, the entire E&A team meets off site to take a hard look at ourselves and answer several questions:

• Why do clients choose to work with us?
• How are we different from other firms?
• How can we offer clients a better experience?

While the answers do not always come easily, the process continually adds capabilities and enhances the ways we interact with you. It reinforces our commitment to clients, old and new, to listen to your concerns; learn about your situation; analyze your needs, and do what it takes to provide the service you need and deserve. As Steven Covey says, “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”

Additional Team Members

E&A carefully selects team members for optimum value and impact. Team members have held positions inside companies (financial services, technology, retail, manufacturing and educational institutions) and, therefore, have experience on your side of the desk.

When workloads and/or specific client engagements make it wise, we supplement our permanent staff through long-standing relationships with senior interim accounting specialists (typically CPAs) and accounting interns from local universities. E&A often partners with other professional service firms, including attorneys and CPA firms to deliver specialized services to clients.

E&A’s alliances with Vanessa Pollard CPA, a minority-owned, woman-owned CPA firm, brings highly qualified resources to further deepen E&A’s team and meet MBE/WBE requirements. Our close relationship with Schmidt Associates, CPAs, also adds depth and experience to E&A’s ability to meet almost any client need.

E&A’s capabilities have also proven useful to other CPA firms who turn to us for our expertise and ability to work side-by-side with them. They frequently refer clients needing help with audits, reviews and expatriate taxation. Plus, team members speak to and are published authors on business issues for the public and other members of the profession, as well as serving as adjunct faculty at several local universities and colleges.