Thompson Addresses IMA
AURORA, IL - October 20, 2003:

Rick Thompson, CPA, Tax Partner, with Sikich Gardner & Co, LLP, spoke at a recent Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) Technical Meeting. The IMA is an international organization of accounting, finance, and information management professionals.

Thompson discussed the numerous tax changes passed by the Illinois General Assembly and signed into law June 20, 2003, as a means to enhance revenue for the state. Thompson highlighted key provisions which affect business taxpayers, notably, the increase in the income tax burden, the elimination of many sales and use tax exemptions, and the Tax Delinquency Amnesty Act.

Thompson is a tax specialist with more than 20 years experience. He concentrates on income tax, estate tax, and financial planning for closely held businesses, their owners, and individuals. Thompson is the chair of the firm’s tax committee and is a frequent speaker on various aspects of taxation for local business and service groups. He has taught continuing professional education tax courses at the national and local levels, and has served as an instructor at Northern Illinois University and Elgin Community College. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and a Master’s degree in Accounting from Northern Illinois University. Thompson resides with his family in St. Charles, Illinois.

Background

Sikich Gardner & Co, LLP is a full service accounting and consulting firm. The firm ranks 12th among Chicago’s largest accounting firms by Crain’s Chicago Business and Public Accounting Report ranks the firm 64th nationally. The practice focuses on closely held, middle market businesses, state and local governments, not-for-profit organizations, and individuals. In addition to accounting, auditing and tax, the firm’s services include mergers and acquisitions, litigation consulting, estate and personal financial planning, and employee benefits consulting.

Through its members and alliance members, Sikich Group, LLC offers a full range of multidisciplinary business consulting services in the fields of accounting, taxation, entrepreneurial services, information technology, corporate finance, insurance, human resources, marketing, and asset management to individuals, middle market businesses, and governmental and not-for-profit organizations throughout the Midwest. The consulting group employs more than 200 people with offices located in Aurora, Barrington, Springfield, and Westmont, IL. Most of the firms within the Group are operated by the entrepreneurs who founded them and who still maintain a substantial ownership position.

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