Our outsourced accounting services are especially beneficial to nonprofit organizations. We do this by helping you:

• Pursue your mission more efficiently: Our outsourced accounting services give you greater efficiency and managerial visibility so you can drive down costs while fully pursuing your organization’s mission.
• Have a clear picture: With real-time visibility, you can proactively manage your nonprofit’s key initiatives, take action, and improve outcomes across funding sources, locations, grants and programs.
• Improve productivity: With automated workflows, it is easier to approve and pay bills.  Our outsourced accounting services make your core financial operations faster and more efficient.
• Efficient grant and program management: Whether you need to track and manage grants, programs or funds, our outsourced accounting services gives you real time visibility on their performance.

Managing the financials for law, architectural, or engineering firms can be incredibly complicated.As a finance professional for one of these professional service firms, you might need to analyze profitability for multiple entities.  You also might have professionals all over the world, or clients all over the web.  This may be compounded by the fact that you also may be saddled with a too small team handling a large number of diverse matters.

You also may already have software that tracks staff hours on projects and cases for billing purposes.  Dugan & Lopatka has significant experience in working with professional service firms, providing invoicing, payroll, project and case-tracking along with bill coding and payment.

Many small to mid-market professional service firms file their taxes on a cash basis.  Dugan & Lopatka has years of experience helping firms plan for and close out the year by first projecting year-end net income and then allocating this income to the professionals based on their unique earnout package.

Meanwhile, as a financial professional for these firms, you must constantly adapt to the needs of your firm and your market.  With all of this variety, volume and change, it’s a relief to have Dugan & Lopatka as a trusted guide.

There is no substitute for a CPA firm that understands your healthcare business, including those for physicians, pharmacists and dentists.  Dugan & Lopatka has the extensive understanding of the healthcare markets in the Chicagoland area.  This is the Dugan & Lopatka difference.As a healthcare provider, you are most likely using a third party billing service. Consider having Dugan & Lopatka do the rest. We can be your entire back office by providing payroll services, electronic bill paying, monthly bank account reconciliation all while providing you with monthly financial reports tailored to your practice.

Many health care providers file their taxes on a cash basis. Dugan & Lopatka has years of experience helping practices plan for and close out the year by first projecting year end net income and then allocating this income to the healthcare professional based on their unique earnout package.

All service businesses devote time and money to providing their clients with high quality assistance.  With service being the foundation of our business, Dugan & Lopatka understands your accounting, tax and business needs. From businesses in industries as diverse as information technology to property management, we understand that you and your people’s time is more valuable providing a service to your customers and not getting bogged down in the day-to-day accounting needs of the business.  That’s where Dugan & Lopatka excels! By assisting your bookkeeper with the monthly accounting and controllership services or we can be your entire accounting department, your staff is freed to focus on serving your customers and growing your business.

Many service providers file their taxes on a cash basis.  We have years of experience helping businesses plan for and close out the year by first projecting year end net income and then determining the best use of the profits while looking to minimize the tax implications of a profitable year.

Below are just a few of the service providers we have assisted.  They include:

• Information technology firms.
• Business service firms.
• Counseling service providers.
• Transportation service firms.
• Personal service businesses.
• Social service firms.
• Maintenance service firms.

Manufacturers, distributers warehousers and contractors face significant marketplace challenges – rising costs, global competition, regulatory compliance, technological advancements – to name just a few.  At Dugan & Lopatka, we believe one key to combating these challenges is planning for your businesses’ financial success.  We use a client service team approach to guide you through many of the financial, tax and business challenges you face, leaving nothing to chance!

Manufacturing Services

For more than four decades, Dugan & Lopatka has advised a wide range of manufacturers in industries including electronic and electrical, fabricated metals, measuring devices, and adhesives.   We understand the challenges and opportunities you face and have a dedicated team of professionals who can provide innovative and proven strategies to help your business

Throughout our existence, we have been helping manufacturing and distribution companies overcome the challenges they face. Using a client service team approach, we can provide you with a variety of financial, tax and information management services that complement your business objectives and increase profitability.

Services Provided Our Manufacturing Clients

• Inventory Management & Controls
• Cash Flow Forecasts & Projections
• Capital Budgeting & Analysis
• Cost Segregation Studies
• R&D Tax Credit Studies
• Inventory Capitalization Rules
• Income Tax Depreciation
• Tax Credits & Job Incentive Initiatives
• CRM, ERP & Accounting Software

Distribution Services

Dugan & Lopatka’s many years of service to businesses in the distribution sector has provided us with an intimate understanding of their complexities. We have assisted numerous distributors over the years in a wide-array of industry segments with services including inventory management and controls, inventory capitalization rules, and CRM, ERP and accounting software solutions – specific to distribution companies.Our dedicated team of professional’s also partner with our distribution clients to help them identify opportunities and overcome challenges that are specific to the industry. Our full range of services to the industry includes accounting, auditing, tax and financial consulting services, structured to meet the specific needs of each client.

Services Provided Our Distribution Clients

• Financial Forecasts & Projections
• Cash Flow Forecasts & Projections
• Capital Budgeting & Analysis
• Cost Segregation Studies
• Process Improvement-based Research & Development Tax Credit Studies
• Income Tax Depreciation
• Tax Credits & Job Incentives