RSM US LLP is an audit, tax, and consulting firm focused on the middle market in the

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and

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and is a member of the global accounting network RSM International. It is the fifth largest accounting firm in the

and employs more than 17,000 professionals across 93 cities nationwide and in

. RSM US also maintains offices in

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and

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. Since 2012, RSM US has been headquartered in downtown Chicago. Through RSM International, the firm brings together more than 51,000 professionals from over 800 offices located in more than 123 countries.

History

The firm was founded in 1926 by Ira B. McGladrey (1883-1952) in

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. McGladrey became a prominent figure in public accounting in Iowa, serving as President of the Iowa Society of Certified Public Accountants, chairman of the Iowa Board of Accountancy, as well as a member of the Rules Committee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the premier governing body for the field of accounting in the United States. The firm continued to operate under some variant of the McGladrey name until 2015. Cme building aerial view

Legal structure

Beginning in 1999, through a partnership with

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, McGladrey operated under two separate legal entities: * McGladrey & Pullen, LLP * RSM McGladrey, Inc. McGladrey & Pullen operated under the traditional partnership structure and offered audit and attestation services. RSM McGladrey was established under the partnership agreement with H&R Block to provide tax and advisory services under an alternative practice structure. In August 2011, H&R Block announced the conclusion of the partnership, divesting RSM McGladrey to McGladrey & Pullen and reuniting the firms in their traditional partnership structure. McGladrey & Pullen acquired all employees, assets, and infrastructure from RSM McGladrey. The deal closed on December 1, 2011. On May 1, 2012, McGladrey & Pullen officially changed its name to McGladrey LLP. In July 2012, McGladrey shifted its headquarters from Bloomington, Minnesota to

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. On October 26, 2015, McGladrey LLP changed its name to RSM US LLP as part of a worldwide rebranding of RSM International members.

Service lines

Audit & Financial Reporting Services

* Global

Audit An audit is an "independent examination of financial information of any entity, whether profit oriented or not, irrespective of its size or legal form when such an examination is conducted with a view to express an opinion thereon.” Auditing ...

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Audit *

Private Company A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is ...

Audit * Employee Plan Benefit Audit

Tax Advisory Services

Federal Tax A comparison of tax rates by countries is difficult and somewhat subjective, as tax laws in most countries are extremely complex and the tax burden falls differently on different groups in each country and sub-national unit. The list focuses o ...

Indirect Tax An indirect tax (such as sales tax, per unit tax, value added tax A value-added tax (VAT), known in some countries as a goods and services tax (GST), is a type of tax that is assessed incrementally. It is levied on the price of a product or ...

* State & Local Tax * International Tax Planning Strategies * Credits and Incentives * Tax Function Optimization

Consulting Services

* Strategy & Management Consulting * Technology Consulting * Financial Advisory ** Valuation Services **

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& Dispute Advisory ** Financial Investigations **

Restructuring Restructuring is the corporate management term for the act of reorganizing the legal, ownership, operational, or other structures of a company for the purpose of making it more profitable, or better organized for its present needs. Other reasons ...

& Bankruptcy * Risk Advisory * M&A Transaction Advisory Services * Technical Accounting

Awards and recognition

2021

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ranked RSM the fifth largest accounting, tax and consulting services firm in the U.S. for the 16th consecutive year *Great Place to Work® named RSM one of the 2021 Best Workplaces in Consulting & Professional Services™ * Great Place to Work® and Fortune named RSM one of the 2021 100 Best Companies to Work For® * RSM recognized as Best Tax and Audit Service Provider by HFM * RSM receive
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America’s Best Tax and Accounting Firms 2021
list by

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* RSM recognized o
Human Rights Campaign’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index
* RSM was named a

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Gold Partner

Sponsorships

RSM US LLP is the title sponsor of The RSM Classic, a

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event that takes place at

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in November of each year. The firm also sponsors

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s: PGA Tour professionals

Zach Johnson Zachary Harris Johnson (born February 24, 1976) is an American professional golfer who has 12 victories on the PGA Tour, including two major championships, the 2007 Masters and the 2015 Open Championship. In 2023, Johnson will captain the U.S ...

Abraham Ancer Abraham Ancer (; born 27 February 1991) is a Mexican-American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and is currently playing on the LIV Golf tour. He won the 2018 Emirates Australian Open and the 2021 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational for ...

, Chris Kirk,

Davis Love III Davis Milton Love III (born April 13, 1964) is an American professional golfer who has won 21 events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship: the 1997 PGA Championship. He won the Players Championship in 1992 and 2003. He was in th ...

, and

Colin Montgomerie Colin Stuart Montgomerie, OBE (born 23 June 1963) is a Scottish professional golfer. He has won a record eight European Tour Order of Merit titles, including a streak of seven consecutively from 1993 to 1999. He has won 31 European Tour events, ...

as well as LPGA professional golfers:

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, and Megan Khang. In the European Tour, RSM US sponsors Alice Hewson,

Hinrich Arkenau Hinrich is both a masculine given name and a surname, a variant of Heinrich, the German form of Henry. People with the name include: Given name: * Hinrich Braren (1751–1826), Danish sailor and writer *Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf (1893–1961), German ...

Paul Lawrie Paul Stewart Lawrie (born 1 January 1969) is a Scottish professional golfer who is best known for winning The Open Championship in 1999. He was a vice-captain for the European Ryder Cup team in 2016. Early career Lawrie was born in Aberdeen a ...

, and Andy Sullivan.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Accounting firms of the United States Companies based in Chicago Consulting firms established in 1926 RSM International