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Topel Forman
Topel Forman is a Chicago-based public accounting firm providing accounting, audit, taxation, and consulting in various industries.
Purpose
Our firm is client-focused and driven to provide world-class client service using a true team philosophy. We seek to understand our clients and identify their needs. We strive to be practical and creative in our guidance providing service that adds real value to our clients.
Vision
We are committed to building long-standing relationships with our clients, earning their respect, and ultimately becoming their trusted advisers.
Mission
Our purpose has given rise to a culture and a set of core values that have become our devotion and the firm’s foundation and fabric. These core values include flexibility, integrity, respect, and excellence. We strive to uphold a diverse, fair, and inclusive workplace. We respect each colleague’s intersectionality and cherish the mosaic that is our valued team.
Additional Culture Details
Since January 2020, we have increased our workforce by about 45%. We are a family firm and a genuine community. We were accustomed to seeing each other regularly during busy seasons and non-busy seasons. Throughout 2020 and 2021, though, we adopted video chat activities and had fun get-togethers, competitions, and more to stay connected and have more recently created new opportunities for in-person and hybrid interaction. Our successes in this realm created an environment conducive to a hybrid workforce. We genuinely enjoy each other's company, and the firm offers a variety of events to encapsulate multiple preferences. We often order food into the offices and host annual firm-wide get-togethers and charity events. We often attend sporting events, happy hours, educational gatherings, and more together. Our firm is full of history and stories dating back to its inception in 1961. While we are creating new memories, often one might get regaled with a funny story of a current partner when they were an associate or another story from an event that we did many years ago. Our average tenure of employees is fourteen years, and many employees have authentic friendships outside of work, which helps our firm feel even more cohesive.
Values
- Flexibility and Respect
- We know that contributions are valuable no matter the location you are working. We offer professional development time, flexibility during non-busy seasons, a robust paid time off program, and do not expect anyone to be available twenty-four hours a day. We offer personalized opportunities for professional development in technical skills, leadership, and more. Our leadership is approachable, which cultivates a supportive atmosphere where employees' voices are heard, and collaboration is at the forefront of the workload.
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