History
Benford Brown & Associates, LLC (BB&A) is a minority, woman-owned CPA firm that provides auditing, accounting, tax and small business consulting services for its clients and founded in late 1996 by Alyssia Benford and Kimi Brown-Ellen. Since its modest beginning, BB&A has grown exponentially while another partner, Timothy S. Watson in Chicago. The partners of BB&A have a combined 75 years of accounting experience and 1/2 of these years were spent with public accounting firms including the Big 4 in the above listed industries and the other 1/2 was spent either within the internal audit, accounting or tax departments of Fortune 500 companies. The partners of BB&A have taken the best of practices learned in their prior experiences and added their own high set of values to formulate BB&A's mission, focus and short and long range goals. As such, BB&A values providing high-quality services and being fully accesible to our clients.
Specialties
Benford Brown & Associates, LLC specializes in providing tax preparation, tax planning, tax resolution services for individuals and businesses. We also specialize in providing a full range of accounting services. Our services are provided by CPAs with 25 years of experience and we have been providing services since 1996. We provide tax preparation services for individuals (1040), corporations (1120), S-corporations (1120S), partnerships (1065), LLCs, and nonprofit organizations (990). Whether you have a simple tax return or highly complex one, we are able to help you get it prepared and submitted in a timely fashion. We also offer tax planning services which include providing individuals with a customized plan of action aimed to reduce overall taxes, reduce year-end tax liability, and to meet short-term and long-term future goals. Our tax planning services are useful for small business owners who receive