Louis G. Gutberlet, CPA

LGG & Associates and its founder, Louis Gutberlet, CPA, have been serving small clients since the 1960's. Quality, Commmitment, and Creativity - a rare combination of characteristices in today's practice of public accountancy. However, LGG & Associates can put these attributes to work for you. To reach this goal, the firm advocates a customer service philosophy of providing qulaity, personal, hands on service for all of its clients. Underlying this concept is a desire to demonstrate that creativity and innovation are still attributes in today's business environment. We realize that to maintain our competitive edge, we must keep current with advancements in accounting, tax, and technology. We embrace change and increased productivity for the benefit of our clients and ourselves. Each member of the firm is thououghly trained to make use of all of the tools in which we invest to increase our efficiency and effectiveness to serve our clients to the utmost of our ability. Like you, our ultimate goal is quality - quality customers, quality service, quality products, and quality people. The quality of services performed by a professional services firm such as ours is principally dependent upon the qualifications and capabilities of its people. Our proposal to accomplich results is based on demonstrated capabilities and accomplichments in a variety of environments, including business, but particularly public accountancy. We cannot audit, review, or compile that which we do not underatand. Together, however, we can offer creative, yet simple, solutions to complex accounting, operating, and management problems based upon an understanding of your business. In addition to being a Certified Professional QuickBooks Consultant/Advisor, Louis specializes in value-added financial statement and corporate tax return engagements. Louis and his firm grant client's a "100% Unconditional Money Back Service Guarantee" for QuickBooks consulting or any other service. The firm has developed a "Client's Bill of Rights" which, among other things, guarantees that the firm's products will always be unique, of exceptional quality, and designed to add significant value. A client has a right to expect acknowledgement of any communication with the firm before the end of the next business day or the firm will pay him or her $100, no questions asked. Finally, the firm's products and services will rarely, if ever, be the least expensive on the market. They will, however, always be of the highest and best quality and value enabling a client to get real benefit from them. Louis is the author of a highly successful book entitled "A Guide to Compiling and Reviewing Financial Statements" and co-author of an auditing textbook. He was a project manager at the Financial Accounting Standards Board charged with the development of differential accounting standards applicable to privately owned business entities. He served as one of the original members of the AICPA Accounting and Review Services Committee responsible for creating standards for what are known as compiling and/or reviewing financial statements. Louis is the immediate past Chair of the GSCPA's Accounting and Assurance Services Standards Committee and a member of council. He is also a former member of the GSCPA's Board of Directors and its Management of an Accounting Practice, Legislative, and Peer Review Committees. In addition to being an Intuit Certified QuickBooks Professional Advisor (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003), he is a Sleeter Group Certified QuickBooks Consultant. Recently, he was recognized as an outstanding Discussion Leader, an honor determined by the participants themselves in AICPA and GSCPA continuing professional education courses. By now you already know how resolutely we believe in the concept of uniqueness - both in the way we think about, percieve, and believe in you, the client, (you are the smartest people in the world) and in the uniqueness of our solutions to your income tax planning or financial reporting needs. We know we can provide you with unparalleded service and the expertise necessary to respond to any issue. Efficiency and effectiveness - the ability to competently and consistently get the right answer. Solutions that Work - Guaranteed.