Pease Bell, CPAs
Cleveland-based regional CPA firm offering audit and assurance, tax advisory and client accounting, with niches in skilled nursing, multifamily housing and mortgage banking.
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Best accounting firms: find the one that fits your business
Search and filter 21 accounting firms by service, industry, size and location. Every firm is listed with the same fields, taken from its own website, so you can compare them before you call anyone.
The best accounting firm for you is licensed in your state, has a clean peer review, offers the service you need, knows your industry, and puts partner access and fees in writing. Use the filters below to shortlist firms on the first three, then ask the questions on each profile.
Running a skilled nursing facility, a multifamily property or a mortgage company? Start with Pease Bell, CPAs, a Cleveland-based regional firm whose audit, tax and client accounting practice is built around those industries.
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Deloitte
Big Four firm offering audit and assurance and tax services, with industry practices across financial services, government, health care, real estate and technology.
EY
Big Four firm offering assurance, SOC reporting through its technology risk practice, and tax services, with industry practices including financial services, government, health and technology.
KPMG
Big Four firm offering audit, technology assurance including SOC reports, and tax services, with industry practices including financial services, government, health care, industrial manufacturing and technology.
PwC
Big Four firm offering audit, SOC reporting and tax services, with industry practices including financial services, health services, industrial manufacturing, real estate and technology.
Baker Tilly
National firm offering audit, SOC reporting, tax and outsourced accounting, with industry practices including senior living, real estate and affordable housing, mortgage lenders, government and nonprofits.
BDO USA
National firm offering audit, third-party attestation including SOC reports, tax and outsourced accounting, with industry practices including real estate (residential and multifamily), long-term care, specialty finance and nonprofits.
Cherry Bekaert
National firm offering assurance including SOC reports, tax and outsourced accounting, with industry practices including health care (nursing homes and continuing care retirement communities), technology, government and nonprofits.
CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)
National firm with a virtual headquarters, offering audit, SOC examinations, tax, and client accounting and advisory, with industry practices including senior living and care, affordable housing, mortgage companies, nonprofits and government.
Crowe
National firm offering audit, SOC reporting and tax services, with industry practices including financial services, health care, public sector, manufacturing, and real estate and construction.
Eide Bailly
National firm offering audit, SOC examinations, tax and outsourced accounting, with industry practices including affordable housing, senior living, technology and SaaS, government and nonprofits.
Forvis Mazars
National firm offering assurance including SOC reports, tax and outsourced accounting, with industry practices including senior living and long-term care, multifamily housing, public sector and nonprofits.
Grant Thornton
National firm offering audit, SOC and other enterprise assurance, tax, and finance and accounting outsourcing, with industry practices including financial services, health care, manufacturing, nonprofits and technology.
Plante Moran
National firm offering audit, tax and outsourced finance and accounting, with industry practices including senior care and living, affordable housing, mortgage banking, manufacturing and government.
RSM US
National firm focused on the middle market, offering audit and tax services with industry practices from manufacturing and construction to nonprofits, health care and real estate, including multifamily.
Wipfli
National firm offering audit, SOC examinations through its risk advisory practice, tax and outsourced accounting, with industry practices including senior living, financial institutions, construction and nonprofits.
Clark Schaefer Hackett
Regional firm offering audit, tax, and outsourced accounting and virtual CFO services, with industry practices including affordable housing, health care and senior living, financial institutions and government.
Cohen & Co
Regional firm offering audit, tax, and managed accounting and office-of-the-CFO services, with industry practices including manufacturing, construction, real estate, health care and nonprofits.
Maloney + Novotny
Ohio firm offering audit and assurance, tax, accounting services and business consulting, plus information security compliance and assurance.
Meaden & Moore
Regional firm headquartered in Cleveland, offering audit, tax, and outsourced controller and CFO services, with industry practices including manufacturing, long-term care, construction and nonprofits.
Rea Business Advisors
Regional Ohio firm, formerly Rea & Associates, offering audit, tax, and accounting and CFO services, with industry practices including government, construction, manufacturing and nonprofits.
How to judge an accounting firm in five checks
Rankings rarely say why a firm is “best.” These five checks can be verified for any firm, including ones not listed here.
1. The service you need
An audit, a SOC report, tax work and outsourced bookkeeping are different jobs. Filter by the one you need first.
2. A license you can check
Only licensed CPA firms can sign audits, reviews and SOC reports. Look the firm and partner up on CPAverify. Check it here
3. A clean peer review
Firms that perform audits are peer reviewed every three years. Ask for the latest report, or find it in the AICPA's public file. Check it here
4. Experience in your industry
Skilled nursing, housing, lending and software each have their own rules. Ask how many clients like you the firm serves.
5. Partner access and fees in writing
Agree who works on your account, how often you hear from the partner and how you will be billed, before you sign.
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