Lauterbach & Amen, LLP has provided continuous value and quality service to our clients. Founded in 1997 by Sherry Lauterbach and Ron Amen, the firm provides clients with accurate, timely and personalized services that combine large-firm capabilities with small-firm values. Through the years, our services have evolved to meet the growing demands of our clients in the governmental, nonprofit and private sectors.
Today, our firm’s strong foundation and modern technologies ensure that our clients meet their goals and enjoy success while we uphold our standing as a leader in the accounting and benefits industry. L&A is ranked as one of the largest CPA firms in the Chicago area, with a proven reputation for being one of the fastest-growing firms nationwide.
L&A will attain the highest quality employees who share our core values and capacities in order to continue to service our clients at the level at which they are accustomed. Our staff utilizes their expertise to educate clients with the anticipation that it will lead to accurate solutions to challenges that may arise in the daily course of financial operations. Our goal is to maintain personalized relationships with our current clients, while continuing to develop relationships with new clients with the hopes of creating equally valuable bonds.
Our firm respects the ideas, contributions, and hard work of our valued team members, which creates an environment they are proud to support.
Our leadership believes in the importance of work-life balance. We believe our team is best equipped to deliver outstanding service to our clients when they embrace a healthy, sustainable, balanced lifestyle.
Our firm respects the ideas, contributions, and hard work of our valued team members , which creates an environment they are proud to support.
Our leadership believes in the importance of work-life balance. We believe our team is best equipped to deliver outstanding service to our clients when they embrace a healthy, sustainable, balanced lifestyle.
We know that collaboration is the key to success. We foster an environment that encourages teamwork to ensure our clients experience the best service.
We are proud that every member of our team truly believes in the services we provide and the value they bring to our clients.
L&A provides accounting, compilation, assurance, actuary, tax, and financial services to our clients in the spirit of excellence and altruism. As a firm, we are committed to adhering to stringent moral standards in addition to the legally imposed professional standards and guidelines, priding ourselves in our flexible attitude towards accommodating our clients, and continually striving to be an elite personal client service firm.
Our team of highly-skilled individuals is dedicated to providing outstanding client service while maintaining our industry’s high standards of excellence, confidentiality and professionalism. Each client engagement is assigned a team of highly skilled, experienced and equipped L&A team members.
L&A retains membership in professional organizations that serve the financial and management staffs of governments. These organizations include:
L&A has authored several published articles for the growing governmental sector and our informative and well-received annual training courses provide a value-added service to our clients. We have presented for many of the above professional organizations as well as the following:
Our firm is committed to the clients we serve and the communities in which we live. Our partners and staff are committed to many deserving non-profit organizations. We are thankful to employ people that share our firm’s charitable spirit by regularly volunteering their time, resources, and talents.
L&A has partnered with these charitable organizations to support our local community.
Each year, L&A works with Hesed House to adopt two families in the DuPage County area. In addition to donating essential, everyday items to the families, our firm purchases items from their family holiday wish lists.
Through the Ronald McDonald House, families with children undergoing medical treatment can receive - at no cost to them - housing, meals and a true support system. L&A partners with the Winfield chapter of the Ronald McDonald House to donate both time and money in the preparation and delivery of home-cooked meals to families who stay at the property during their child’s medical treatments.
Providing meals to malnourished children is another way we give back through the non-profit organization Feed My Starving Children. L&A team members have volunteered their time to hand-pack nutritionally complete meals that are shipped to children worldwide.