Management Services
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Administrative Services
Computer Services

• We speak Banker, and we speak architect.
• We speak Accountant, and we speak architect.
• We speak Government, and we speak architect.
• We speak Insurance, and we speak architect.
• We speak Attorney, and most importantly,

We Speak Architect.

We serve as business advisor for the management of your practice. We meet with your principals to discuss your monthly financial statements soon after your staff prepares them. Our analysis naturally includes discussion of your progress against budget and profit goals. We can also prepare a forecast of operating results and financial condition together with a narrative analysis for discussion with the principals, your banker, your accountant and your tax advisor.

We maintain a working relationship with your accountant, attorney and tax advisor. In these relationships, we maximize the value of their services to your firm and facilitate implementing any of their recommendations which you choose to adopt. It is important that both you and these professionals understand that our role is not to replace them, but to supplement and strengthen their contribution to your firm.

We are also experienced in management and ownership transition. We are often asked to moderate discussions and help structure the retirement or buyout of partners and the assimilation of new principals.

Our extensive experience with project accounting and control systems gives us the background to assist your project managers in using the tools at their disposal to prepare project budgets and to help your administrative staff to input them. We teach your staff how to provide meaningful and timely feedback against those budgets and we teach your project managers how to interpret the information.

We have extensive experience with sortwared including Harper and Shuman / Deltek Advantage, Deltek Sema4, Wind2 and Axium. Our value to you in these systems is not just in "knowing which button to push" but in knowing how to help you understand the information the system provides and helping your staff accumulate data and process it in a timely and efficient manner.

For over a dozen years, we have been helping A & E firms manage their projects and their practices with custom reports. Segmenting project information by Principal, Project Manager, Client, Department, Staff Member, etc. is commonplace. Architects are particularly visually oriented, and we can adapt your information to an understandable form.

Each year we coordinate the preparation of your annual budget and profit plan. Our summary is customized to your firm and is always in a form which eases comparison with actual results and periodic forecasts.
We have extensive experience in long-range planning and have adapted classical planning models to the A & E industry. If appropriate, we conduct strategic planning sessions with your principals.

We provide long or short term contract staff services. Our experienced associates are available on a part time basis to perform your billing and accounting functions and can be scheduled to meet your special needs. Many clients use this service to cover vacations, maternity leave, temporary downsizing and similar situations.

We continually observe your administrative and operating practices and make recommendations for improvements which enhance productivity, efficiency and/or internal controls. This includes hands-on involvement with credit administration, collections, cash flow enhancement, personnel policies, and employee benefits.

We maintain a broad base of practical information about PC applications for A & E firms. We help you sort out the many alternatives for accounting, word processing, office automation, CAD and spec writing. Because of our awareness of both the microcomputer industry and your particular needs, we are able to help you implement new systems in a very cost-effective manner.

Our experience with standard applications like Word, WordPerfect, Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, Access, Paradox, etc. combined with our knowledge of the A & E business makes us uniquely qualified to assist you with your PC needs.

We specialize in implementation, operation and customization of Deltek Advantage. Advantage Project Financial Management Software is the premier back-office software package for A & E firms,and we are the region's foremost experts. Our staff includes two Certified Deltek Advantage Professionals.

We have extensive experience in helping A & E firms with their specialized database requirements. We can assist you in developing methods to manage effectively information about your clients, projects, employees and vendors.