Dermody launches new Custom Accounting Solutions service line

SYRACUSE — Dermody, Burke & Brown, CPAs, LLC (DB&B) announced it has launched a new service line, called Custom Accounting Solutions (CAS), “in response to a growing demand for back office accounting support.” 

Many back-office accounting operations “may be struggling” remotely right now and real-time data is “needed now more than ever,” DB&B contends.

“We launched the services to the public on that date but we have been working with select clients [since] the fall of 2019 to get our processes in place,” says Karen Hovey, a partner at Dermody, Burke & Brown and the lead partner of CAS.

The firm decided to pursue the new service line back in the fall, she notes.

By leveraging new technology and the right cloud products, DB&B says it can “deliver outsourced accounting support that is right” for any business, either in Central New York or across the nation.

DB&B is located at 443 N. Franklin St. in Franklin Center, which is part of Syracuse’s Franklin Square area. 

“We felt that there is a need in the community to provide real-time service to clients using new technology in cloud-based applications,” says Hovey. “With the COVID [pandemic] hitting and people working more remotely, we felt that this was even a greater opportunity to get the word out sooner that we have this process available for business owners to use.” 

Four DB&B employees are currently working on the service, but clients have access to employees across the entire firm, depending on what the customer needs, she notes. 

The new service has resulted in at least one new hire, who joined the firm in 2019. 

“We actually have hired a person … to work exclusively on this service and we will be expanding and hiring more people in the future,” says Hovey. 

To this point, four local businesses are using the service and have been using it since last fall. No firms have sought the service since DB&B announced it in late June. 

DB&B plans a digital-marketing campaign in August to attract potential clients for the new service, says Pennie Gorney, director of marketing at Dermody, Burke & Brown. 

The firm plans on marketing Custom Accounting Solutions to business owners and CEOs of closely held businesses and organizations, Gorney adds.

Both Hovey and Gorney spoke with CNYBJ in a phone interview on July 28.

DB&B’s CAS service line provides experience in “all levels” of finance and accounting to provide the “appropriate level” of accounting support needed, whether basic accounting, advanced accounting or a “full service” accounting department, the firm says.

Dermody, Burke & Brown operates offices in Syracuse, Auburn, New Hartford, and Rome. It employs nearly 100 people and describes itself as one of the largest independently, locally owned accounting and business-advisory firms in Central New York.