Daniel A. Fortman

MANAGING PARTNER

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Dan is an assurance services partner who has more than 35 years of accounting and auditing experience. Dan has consulted on a broad range of business matters for clients in a number of industries, such as distribution, entertainment, manufacturing, printing, professional corporations, not-for-profit and real estate. He has managed audits of privately held corporations, partnerships, and not-for-profit entities and is responsible for clients ranging from $5 million to $75 million in revenues.
Dan’s analytical approach to accounting and auditing has served him well in his quest to master the game of golf. He and his wife enjoy travelling together and spending time with their two grown children.

Skills/Practices

  • Audits, reviews, and compilations of financial statements for closely held businesses
  • Audit services for employee benefit plans, including 401k’s and ESOP’s
  • Audit services for not for profit entities
  • Planning and accounting for Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP’s)
  • Business acquisition and sale transactions, including due diligence, tax planning, and deal structuring
  • Business startups, purchases, sales, and mergers
  • Corporate, partnership, and individual tax planning
  • Private Foundation planning and compliance
  • Estate, gift, and trust planning and compliance services
  • Tax planning for high net worth individuals, including succession and wealth transfer
  • Business consulting
  • Controllership services to clients seeking to outsource functions of their accounting department
  • Experience working with foreign-owned businesses doing business in the United States
  • Financial planning
  • Litigation support and forensic accounting services
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Family office services for high net worth multi-generational families
  • Individual trustee

Contact

2700 Patriot Boulevard, Suite 400
Glenview, Illinois 60026

Education

  • Bachelor of Science in Accounting, University of Illinois Chicago

Memberships

  • Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
  • Member of the Illinois CPA Society

Community Involvement

  • University of Illinois Chicago Accounting Department Advisory Board