BPM LLP

BPM LLP is one of the 35 largest public accounting and advisory firms in the United States. With a global team more than 1,200 colleagues, we help clients succeed around the world. We offer a cross-functional approach that gives clients direct access to the best and most qualified resources. We partner with clients to meet their needs and maximize the efficiency of single-family and muiti-family offices. From bill-pay and wealth management to comprehensive personal CFO services, our team is ...read more
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Who We Are

BPM is one of the premier firms in the nation, delivering an abundance of financial and advisory solutions in a singular, remarkable experience to clients nationwide and around the world. We believe in building lasting personal relationships with our clients no matter where they are.

Your financial goals are as unique as they are complex, combining business management with family dynamics, legacy goals, wealth transfer, philanthropic endeavors, and more. Our dedicated Family Office and Business Management team is ready to develop and execute a custom strategy to secure your family’s financial wellbeing.

We work with you to tailor services that address the financial goals and pain points of your family and your related businesses. We offer services from bill pay to comprehensive personal CFO services utilizing technology solutions that can provide key automation needed to streamline functionality and improve reporting and provide greater insight to your family’s and business’s finances.

What We Do

BPM’s Family Office Services team integrates a full range of services. We act as trusted advisors by convening all the family’s advisors to collaborate on and collectively execute the family’s plan.

  • We help families to establish and meet legacy goals, plan wealth transfers, execute charitable giving and consult on philanthropic plans.
  • We manage accounting and systems, internal audits and controls, and compliance reporting.
  • We facilitate relationships and communications with different advisors and service providers, including brokerage and investment firms, as well as private equity and venture capital partnerships.
  • We provide personal accounting services, including financial reporting, forecasting, budgeting and spending plans, cashflow analysis and real-time tracking.
  • We educate family members, including the next generation, on wealth planning, investment and financial management, and philanthropy.

 

We also provide specific solutions as needed, including:

  • Cash flow modeling for capital calls, estimate taxes and real estate taxes.
  • Net worth statements for estate planning, investing and lines of credit.
  • Financial statement audits and compliance filings.
  • Tax planning and compliance.
  • Treasury management, reconciliation and bank coordination.
  • CFO services.
  • Succession planning.
  • Software consulting and optimal financial system configuration.
  • Insurance reviews and coordination.
  • Automated bill-pay and cash management.
  • Household staff payroll management, and compensation and benefits administration.

Our technology solutions automate key tasks, streamline functions, simplify reporting and tracking performance, and increase speed and efficiency. You gain more insight into your family’s and its businesses’ finances while improving functionality and right-sizing your systems and annualized software spend

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From front-end relationship management and strategic wealth planning to back-end financial management, accounting and tax services. From compliance management to bill-pay and payroll. BPM’s Family Office Services team helps family offices meet a wide range of financial management needs.

 

Alongside these services, we bring the added value of BPM’s experienced private client services team, tax and accounting advisors and BPM’s deep bench of more than 1,200 people.

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How does your firm deliver integrated services and what does that mean for your clients?: 

BPM1™ is the way we do business – it’s the way we serve clients. Through our Assurance, Tax, and Advisory practices, we focus on providing high quality and innovative solutions to deliver the best results for our clients. From audit and risk advisory to consulting services, and technology solutions, we utilize an approach that is customized to fit the specific needs of our clients.

Through our BPM1™ service model, we offer a cross-functional team approach that gives clients direct access to the best and most qualified resources. From our go-to-market by industry model to our focus on specialty services, we take pride in bringing the can-do, practical spirit of entrepreneurial vision to all of our clients’ activities.

We take our professional standards seriously and pride ourselves in focusing on what is best for our clients as well as for our people and the communities in which we live and work. We are proud to be registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and in compliance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Peer Review Standards.

What core services do you provide for your average client profile?: 

Advisory:

  • Family Office Services / Business Process Outsourcing
  • Coordination of key advisors
  • Private equity and venture capital investment coordination
  • Tax Planning and Preparation 
  • Exit Planning
  • Corporate Finance Consulting
  • CFO Services
  • Risk Advisory
  • Forensic Accounting for Family Law
  • Dispute Resolution Forensics and Litigation
  • Philanthropy consulting, coordination and compliance
  • HR and People Services
  • IT Security Advisory
  • Cybersecurity
  • Managed IT Services
  • Technology Solutions
  • Sage Intacct

Full list - https://www.bpmcpa.com/Services 

What are your firm's mission,vision and values?: 

Our mission is to wow clients with our service, depth of knowledge and deep understanding of their business, personal, and financial goals.

Our vision is to be an innovative, independent, nationally recognized firm, known for its depth and breadth of services and for connecting our clients and our people to the knowledge, resources, and communities they need to be successful in work and life.

Values: 

Community Meet our responsibilities to the communities where we live, work and play. 

Respect Value each other, the work we do and everyone we serve.

Integrity Be fair and accurate, honoring commitments and doing what is right.

Creativity Encourage initiative, imagination and originality.

Knowledge Have the technical knowledge to serve our clients.

Excellence Strive for excellence and quality in all that we do.

Teamwork Create value by working and innovating together, within and across our business.

Success Achieve profits and growth to make our values and objectives possible.

Our values influence everything we do, from providing valuable services to clients, to valuing the diversity and creativity of our employees, to supporting the communities in which we live and work.

What are the top three characteristics that distinguish your firm the most from your competitors?: 

Because People Matter: We are committed to the success of clients and view each engagement as uniquely important. Rather than impose cookie-cutter solutions, we listen to clients and respond to needs, thereby developing effective plans that address both current priorities and future goals 

Full-Service Approach: Through our BPM1™ service model, we offer a cross-functional team approach that gives clients direct access to the best and most qualified resources across our assurance, tax, and advisory practices. Our clients get the best of both worlds from us - business advisory professionals with real-world experience and technical knowledge

Proactive & Responsive: We are passionate about helping our clients by delivering work-class service and developing satisfied clients for life. We proactively seek opportunities to provide solutions, advice and exceptional client experiences. We pride ourselves in being responsive to clients’ expressed and inferred needs. 

What formal and informal client education programs does your company provide?: 
  • Webinars
  • Training Sessions / Workshops
  • Articles
  • White Papers
  • Blogs
  • ebooks
  • Informational videos

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Background

Year Firm Established: 
1986
Year Wealth Advisory Services Established: 
2010

Stats

As of date: 
Thursday, October 19, 2023

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