Company Profile
Kessler Orlean Silver & Co., P.C.
Company Overview
Visit us at www.koscpa.com!
Certified Public Accountants based in Deerfield, Kessler Orlean Silver serves businesses and individuals in multiple states providing business consulting, auditing, accounting and bookkeeping, and tax services. With an 80 year-history, the mid-sized accounting firm of Kessler Orlean Silver & Co., P.C., provides innovative accounting solutions to business owners, executives and managers, private investors, and professionals. Our down-to-earth style and practical experience come from a long-time culture of helping people and feeling passionate about doing so!
ACCOUNTING SERVICES
While you focus your energies on producing quality products or providing outstanding services, let us handle your:
- Bookkeeping
- Payroll and sales tax returns
- Internal controls
- Financial statement preparation
- Financial reporting
- Controller or CFO responsibilities
- QuickBooks® assistance and training
- Peachtree® assistance and training
TAX SERVICES
KOS gives you the attention you deserve. We initiate dialogue throughout the year, not just at tax time. Here are several ways we help:
- Education planning
- Employee benefit plans
- Gift planning
- Multi-state issues
- Personal taxation and savings opportunities
- Representation before the IRS
- Retirement considerations and planning
- Sales and local use tax
- Tax-deferred savings
- Trusts and estates
- Wealth accumulation strategies
- Investment taxation
- Fixed asset depreciation planning
By placing our service standards front and center in the way we conduct business, you can expect to receive the highest quality service while we help you improve your business or personal financials.
Company History
The present day Kessler Orlean Silver & Company, P.C., has only a small resemblance to its beginnings. The firm transformed from its roots as a family bookkeeping operation to the strong audit, tax, and consulting firm that we are today.
In 1928, as a self-employed, non-certified accountant, Nathan C. Kessler began to serve small businesses. Nathan’s 14-year-old son Sam worked evenings to help his father and learn the trade, which he did until he earned an accounting degree from the University of Illinois in 1953.
After a stint in the army and one year working for a CPA, Sam Kessler teamed up with his father, cousin, and brother to start a formal accounting practice, taking care of small wholesale produce and retail business clients.
No formal office was needed, as clients were served at their own place of business. The practice was a “write-up practice”—no audits and no fancy work.
But in 1965, the firm took the giant leap toward modernization, enlisting a computer service bureau to save time and money.
The addition of Ronald Orlean in 1975 enabled the firm to offer another service: tax assistance. Two years later Alan Kalfen joined the firm. When Robert Silver came on board in 1979, he brought along his auditing experience.
The strength and reputation of the firm grew with the new services offered and the firm realized the need to develop a professional team, especially in auditing so KOS hired Sandy Alper in 1987.
In the course of business, several new partners have been admitted. Jeff Arnol came aboard in 1989. In 1999, Sam Kessler’s son, Steve Kessler, and Ben Darcy became partners. Both had been with the firm for many years prior to their promotion. In 2000, Sam retired and Jeff Arnol became managing partner. Geoff Harlow merged his practice in 2003 and Jeff Floom merged in 2005.
Wisdom and experience come with age and with almost 80 years of service, we’ve gathered quite a bit of both. Our exceptional staff is also a source of our success—many hold advanced degrees including juris doctorates, and additional certificates.
From our longest term client in the wholesale/produce industry, on board since the beginning, to those we now serve across many industries, KOS reflects customer loyalty. We honor the fact that our client relationships define who we were back then and who we still are today.
Benefits
KOS is a place where you can build a career that incorporates interesting assignments, training for new skill sets, a great company culture, and a reasonable balance between working and down-time.
KOS offers benefits, including:
- Health and dental insurance
- 100% employer paid life and disability insurance
- Firm-matched 401(k) plan
- 125 plan
- Commission policy
- Paid vacation, personal, and sick time
- HSA: health savings plan
- Seminar, CPE, and professional dues and licenses expenses
- Paid time spent to sit for the CPA exam and bonuses for each section passed while employed with the firm