Build something greater together

Joining SSC CPAs + Advisors means growth without compromise. As a 100% employee-owned firm, SSC helps entrepreneurial CPA firm owners navigate CPA firm mergers and acquisitions with confidence—protecting their legacy while empowering their people.

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Protect your legacy.

Increase your potential.

“Joining SSC didn’t mean giving something up—it meant gaining a team. I can still serve my clients the way I always have, but now with the support of specialists in every area.”

- Brian Hagenhoff, CPA , Former Firm Owner, Now Senior Manager at SSC CPAs + Advisors

Why firms choose SSC

For firm owners who want to serve—not sell—SSC offers a better way forward. Our 100% employee-owned structure protects what you’ve built while giving your team and clients more room to grow. With SSC, you can plug into proven systems, national expertise, and a collaborative culture that rewards ownership and action. Our employee-owned model also creates a powerful path for succession planning, leveraging our tax advantaged ESOP structure to improve your financial outcomes, and ensuring the business you built continues to thrive for generations.

Legacy safeguarded

Your relationships, your reputation, your values—they all matter. SSC’s merger approach is rooted in respect for your legacy and your team. We work with you to design a transition that honors how you serve clients while adding the scale and stability to sustain it long into the future. 

Highlights: 

  • Preserve the reputation you’ve built and your client relationships.
  • Maintain your connections while gaining deeper bench strength. 
  • Seamless integration with personalized transition support. 
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ESOP advantage for employees

SSC is a 100% employee-owned firm—an innovative model for ESOP business succession that aligns people, performance, and long-term value. This ownership structure drives engagement, accountability, and retention. It’s more than a framework—it’s a culture built on trust, opportunity, and shared growth. 

Highlights: 

  • Employee ownership from day one. 
  • Meaningful participation in firm growth. 
  • Proven retention through shared success. 

Expanded services for clients

As part of SSC, you can offer clients more without having to do it all yourself. Our integrated model connects tax, financial planning, business valuation and wealth management under one roof—so you can say ‘yes’ to more of your clients’ needs with confidence. 

Highlights: 

  • Offer financial planning and wealth management services with a fully built, highly credentialed team. 
  • Seamless cross-functional team collaboration across CPAs, tax strategists, financial planners and wealth advisors. 
  • Technology and resources to support scalable growth. 
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"I started thinking not with a no, but with a yes… why would I do this? What would be the benefit? And when I overlaid that with my personal life, the answer was clear."

-Chris Kohart, CPA, CEPA
Former Firm Owner, Now Senior Manager at SSC CPAs + Advisors

Let’s talk about your next chapter

“SSC CPAs + Advisors” and “SSC” are the brand names under which SSC Advisors, Inc. and SSC CPAs, PA provide professional services. SSC Advisors, Inc. and SSC CPAs, PA practice as an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and applicable law, regulations, and professional standards. SSC CPAs, PA is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services to its clients, and SSC Advisors, Inc. entities provide tax, advisory, and business consulting services to their clients. SSC Advisors, Inc. is not a licensed CPA firm. Our use of the terms “our firm” and “we” and “us” and terms of similar import, denote the alternative practice structure conducted by SSC Advisors, Inc. and SSC CPAs, PA. Advisory services provided through Merit Financial Group, LLC. Merit Financial Group, LLC is a registered investment advisor with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 

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