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Mission statement:
Cotton & Company provides assurance and advisory services. We are committed to serving the public interest, exceeding client expectations, and providing career-enhancing opportunities for our personnel. Our success is the result of the professional skills and integrity of our people.
Cotton & Company’s corporate values, governing all practice areas are:
Integrity. We are uncompromising on matters of principle.
Independence. We do not subordinate our objective professional judgment to the judgment of others.
Dedication. We are committed to excel in all client engagements and professional endeavors.
Quality. We never settle for just “good enough.”
Leadership. We strive to remain at the leading edge of our profession.
Teamwork. We work together harmoniously and with respect for clients, team leaders, peers, and subordinates.
Balance. We support a healthy balance between professional and personal commitments. |
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Overview:
Cotton & Company LLP is an audit and accounting firm located in Old Town Alexandria, VA, just outside Washington, DC. We specialize in providing solutions and services in the areas of financial and IT audit and consulting, management consulting, fraud risk, financial reporting, litigation support, and forensic accounting. Founded in 1981, we have a long-standing rapport with our numerous repeat clients, constantly build on our reputation of providing quality services, earning new client’s trust, and consistently exceed expectations. We provide our clients with solutions today, to meet requirements of the future.
Cotton & Company is not a typical CPA firm. Our specialized practice focus sets us apart. Our professional philosophy makes us unique.
Philosophies
We believe that the foundation upon which the CPA profession built its “most-trusted professional” reputation is independence. Cotton & Company does not just strive to maintain independence, we insist on being fiercely independent. We do not take on consulting engagements for any audit clients. We do not do any audit work for consulting clients. We will walk away from any client who tries to compromise our objectivity and independence. Two other guiding philosophies that have contributed to our success are the views that
Work should be fun, and
A healthy work-life balance must be maintained.
Armed with the knowledge that (due to our experience and expertise) we can win more than our share of competitive engagements, we specifically seek out and pursue engagements that offer intellectual challenge, exciting travel opportunities, and just plain fun. We look for jobs that we think our employees will find stimulating, attention absorbing, and knowledge-enhancing.
Work-Life Balance
Many CPA firms demand that employees work long hours and achieve high chargeable hour goals, and many accountants and auditors believe that long hours are simply to be expected when working at a CPA firm. Cotton & Company believes that employees should strike an optimum balance between challenging and rewarding work and a healthy family and social life. Most Cotton & Company employees find their work sufficiently challenging to make their workdays intense, stimulating, and productive. We also encourage employees to participate in extracurricular activities, from professional association involvement and community service, to the company softball team and the occasional happy-hour gathering.
In a fast-paced professional services firm, there will, of course, be times during the year when engagement events or milestones require extra hours and effort. Our professionals meet these challenges. In addition, we have employees who seek out extra assignments and sometimes work longer-than-average hours. On balance, however, we want employees to work reasonable hours.
We want Cotton & Company to be a challenging, rewarding, and fun place to build a professional career. We have never, and will never, set chargeable hour “goals” or “quotas.” |
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