Accounts Payable Services & AP Automation Providers in Rochester, NY

Overview

DeJoy & Co. is an accounting and advisory practice in Rochester, New York, serving clients since 1990. Its CPAs own it locally, and the firm states that it has no private equity investors and no outside owners.

It presents that independence as the reason its priorities do not drift, so clients and the surrounding community get the same commitment year after year. Its work falls into three practice areas: tax, financial assurance and outsourced accounting. It is a general accounting firm, not a vendor of accounts payable software.

Services relevant to finance teams

Companies that want to hand off day-to-day finance tasks can turn to the Outsourced Accounting Services group, which a partner directs. The firm's public pages do not describe specific accounts payable duties or name an automation platform. Anyone considering the firm for invoice handling or vendor payment support should ask about scope directly. The broader range of services includes:

• Outsourced accounting
• Audit and other assurance engagements
• Financial reporting
• Employee benefit plan work
• Business and corporate tax
• State and local tax planning
• Individual and family tax
• Advice on succession, merger and acquisition assessment, risk, restructuring and business plan development

Approach to client work

The firm describes a collaborative, team-based style with consistent leadership. In its tax practice, preparing and filing returns is treated as one part of a larger planning effort, not a stand-alone chore. It says a return cannot deliver the best result without a comprehensive plan behind it.

Strategies are tailored to each client and talked through with them before anything is carried out. The firm also says it follows changes in tax law, including state and local rules, and passes news of those changes to clients.

In assurance, each audit is staffed with professionals who know the client's sector, and the team works alongside the client's own people to keep the process efficient and transparent. The firm contrasts itself with practices that regard an audit as a commodity. Across all its services it emphasizes year-round consultation, strategy and analysis, and it aims to support organizations from startup through maturity and transition.

Industries served

• Real estate
• Professional services
• Not-for-profit organizations
• Financial institutions
• Manufacturing, distribution and logistics
• Construction and specialty trade contractors
• Healthcare
• E-commerce
• Technology

The firm says it has earned a reputation for reliable, accurate information among lenders, investors, surety providers, governing boards and company leadership. That matters to businesses that need credible financial statements to obtain financing or attract investment, since the firm notes that without trustworthy data, growth plans can be delayed or limited.

People and resources

The leadership group is made up mostly of CPAs. A managing partner also directs tax, and other partners direct outsourced accounting, financial assurance, and financial planning with individual tax. Principals, senior managers, managers, supervisors and advisors staff each practice area, and a small administrative team handles IT, HR and shared services.

The firm reports membership in the PCAOB and in the AICPA's private companies practice section, and it highlights an affiliation with BDO. Client resources include a payment page, eMoney and a SafeSend portal. The firm works from a single office on East Broad Street in Rochester.