Industries

Well Qualified To Serve Your Club 

Private clubs operate in a unique business environment. They face the challenge of providing their members with optimum quality and service while controlling rising costs. And they must constantly react to changes in government regulations, tax laws, operational advancements and member expectations.

We offer a professional team focused on serving private club clients. Our Club Service Team includes dedicated partners, managers, and staff with extensive experience, serving all facets of the industry. We provide specialized consulting services to a host of clubs on a project basis.  McGladrey & Pullen LLP, a leading national CPA firm, provides audit services and RSM McGladrey Inc. provides tax services to more than 200 club clients across the nation. 

RSM McGladrey and McGladrey & Pullen have an alternative practice structure. Though separate and independent legal entities, the two firms work together to serve clients’ business needs.

Our Private Club Industry Experience
Members of our team bring an outstanding depth and breadth of experience to the market. The advantages we offer include:

• Club Industry Specialization: All club team members – top to bottom – are specialized in the private club industry.
  
• Nationally Recognized Experts: Our team is led by nationally recognized experts in all key areas of the club industry:  audit and accounting, tax, strategy, operations, turnovers, financial risk assessment and technology.
  
• Senior-level Club Experience: All senior-level team members have a minimum of 10 years experience in working with private clubs.
  
• Direct Contact with Senior Team Members: All partners and directors have frequent contact with our club clients to offer direct engagement services, and are readily accessible to answer technical questions and provide professional advice.
  
• Passionate Service Team: Our 30-member team is immersed in the club industry, and team members are dedicated to advancing the success of our club clients - and the industry as a whole.
  
• Large & Diverse Client Base: More than 200 current audit and tax clients, along with consulting work for more than 400 clubs in the past 10 years, provides exposure to the breadth and depth of all industry facets, and builds expertise throughout the team.
  
• Club-specific Tools: Our team uses exclusive, industry-specific procedures and tools to carry out it’s many service offerings, and produces club-specific benchmarking and trends publications addressing finance, operations and compensation metrics.
  
• Pulse of the Industry: Our team maintains close relationships with the key club industry professional associations and publications to assure an immediate awareness of developing trends. 
  
• Best Practices and New Ideas: All of the above factors combine to allow our team to provide club clients with valuable best practice approaches and new ideas for their success.
  
• Total Focus on the Private Club Industry: Day in and day out, our team’s energies are focused on serving the needs of our private club clients. 
  

Commitment to the Private Club Industry
Our dedication to the private club industry is evidenced by our annual education programs for professional organizations such as the Club Managers Association of America, the National Club Association, and The Hospitality Financial & Technology Professionals. Team members have published numerous articles in industry journals such as:

• Club Management
• Club Director
• The Bottom Line
• The Private Club Advisor
• The Boardroom
• Exclusively For The Private Club Field
• PGA Magazine
• The Journal of Taxation of Exempt Organizations
• CMAA’s Club Operations Manual

Timely Information
We access industry information and use our knowledge and experience to keep our clients informed, in a timely manner, on topics of particular interest to private clubs.  We regularly release tax bulletins, statistical analysis reports and survey results -- and offer informative seminars -- all geared to assist our club clients in improving their operations and financial performance.

Private Club Resources
You can access articles and brief videos on a variety of informative club topics by visiting our Resource Center.

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