About CLA
The 8th Largest accounting firm in the US
Who is CLA (or CliftonLarsonAllen, LLP)
Current athletic conference, Valparaiso competes in.
What is the Missouri Valley?
Jake and Elwood were on a mission from God to save an orphanage from tax foreclosure in this 1980 film.
What is the Blues Brothers?
Teddy Roosevelt once said "people don't care what you know, until they know how much you..." this
What is care?
Of tax, assurance or wealth advisory services this was the fastest growing CLA service line in 2020.
What is wealth advisory?
This firm merged with Larson Allen to create present day CLA in 2012
Who is Clifton Gunderson, LLP
in 1998, Bryce Drew hit "the shot" at the end of regulation to upset this SEC team in the first round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
Who is Ole Miss or Mississippi?
This film character turned to professional golf in order to save his grandma's house from IRS seizure.
Who is Happy Gilmore?
Currently on the one richest people in the world this famous investor often says that "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago".
Who is Warren Buffett?
This emerging niche industry started to brew for CLA in Chicago more than 10 years ago with Goose Island as on of our initial clients.
What is craft breweries?
The number of Top 100 accounting firms with an office within 25 miles of VU campus.
What is one (CLA)?
In 2003, the Lady Crusaders lost to this other Indiana school in the first round of the Women's NCAA basketball tournament.
Who is Purdue?
Andy Dufresne gives shrewd tax advice in exchange for icy cold Bohemian style beer in this Stephen King film.
What is Shawshank Redemption?
Mark Twain once said that the secret to getting ahead is this.
What is getting started?
What is publicly traded?
Of the following metropolitan areas - Seattle, Los Angeles, Atlanta or Nashville, TN - the area where CLA does not currently have an office.
Where is Nashville (but opening in 2021)?
In 2013, the Valparaiso baseball won the Horizon League title and eliminated this SEC school from College World Series contention.
Will Ferrell played an unstable IRS agent in this 2006 comedy.
This man, the 30th President of the United States, said that "perseverance has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
By revenue, this is the largest industry segment served by CLA within our Chicagoland office group.
What is manufacturing and distribution?
The current (2020) or the incoming CEO of CLA?
Who is Denny Schleper (current) or Jennifer Leary (incoming)?
This Valparaiso graduate played for the Cubs and has managed the Pirates, Mariners and Tigers.
Who is Lloyd McClendon?
It took an IRS tax accountant to take down Al Capone as portrayed in this 1987 film starring Robert De Niro.
What is the Untouchables?
If given six hours to chop down a tree Abraham Lincoln said he would spend the first four doing this.
What sharpening the axe?
In March 2020, CLA organized a national team to provide clients specialized service related to this specific aspect of the CARE act which allowed many organizations to receive government backed, forgivable loans.
What is the Payroll Protection Program or PPP?