Minneapolis-based accounting and consulting firm CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (CLA) made a big bet on Connecticut when it finalized its deal about a year ago to acquire blumshapiro.
Now CLA is one of the largest tax, accounting and consulting firms in Greater Hartford, with about 100 CPAs and 300 employees in West Hartford, Marlborough and Shelton.
Leading CLA’s Connecticut offices is Managing Principal Andrew Lattimer, who has spent much of the past two years helping clients with the Paycheck Protection Program as well as assistance with the employee retention credits.
A New York native, Lattimer has experience with tax planning, research and advising clients in a variety of industries including auto dealerships, aerospace, manufacturing, hospitality, consumer products, real estate, construction, technology service providers and health care. He specializes in federal and state tax returns for individuals, partnerships and privately-held businesses.
In the year ahead, Lattimer said his firm’s focus will be on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and making greater efforts to introduce high school students to the accounting profession.
Lattimer has been a trustee and treasurer of the Mark Twain House for the past nine years and is active in the Windsor community through the school governance board, Windsor Diamond Club and Windsor Softball Booster Club.