Background

Brown Smith Wallace was founded in 1972 and has grown to include numerous entities with nineteen members, ten principals and a total staff of nearly 175.

In addition to its traditional practice areas of accounting, audit and tax, the firm delivers A Measurable Difference™ to its clients through a broad range of non-traditional practice areas. These practice groups include management consulting, retirement plan design and administration, insurance and reinsurance, family wealth and estate planning, risk management, litigation support and business valuation, international business, mergers and acquisitions, technology planning and implementation, professional staffing services and small business services.

The firm also has a joint venture with USA Mortgage, a residential mortgage banking firm. The combination of these practice groups provides a complete package of financial and business advisory services for firm clients.

Capabilities

Brown Smith Wallace is the second-largest locally owned accounting and business advisory firm in Missouri and is ranked as the sixth-largest firm in the St. Louis metropolitan area.

Collectively, our staff participates in hundreds of hours of continuing professional education courses to maintain a high-level of expertise in all practice areas.

The firm has successfully completed all peer-review examinations, indicating that it adheres to the strictest of all AICPA quality-control standards.

In addition, the firm was one of only five Missouri-based firms to be initially accepted into the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).

Affiliations

To serve you with a broader range of services in a wider geographical area, the firm is a member of Moore Stephens International Limited, a global network of independently owned accounting and business advisory firms.

These memberships provide our clients with access to a service partner that has a broad range of expertise in 144 offices in North America and in 93 countries around the world.