September 26 , 2007

McKonly & Asbury LLP Opens Lehigh Valley and Baltimore Metro Offices

McKonly & Asbury LLP  is a firm on the move!  Fresh off being named a Best Place to Work in PA for the fifth straight year, the Central PA based accounting and consulting firm has opened two new offices outside South Central Pennsylvania.  The first to open is the firm's new Lehigh Valley Office, located in suburban Allentown at the junction of Route 100 and Interstate 78.  The firm has also opened an office in Hunt Valley, Maryland, just outside the Baltimore city limits.

"We're committed to growth as a strategic approach to doing business.  We believe it provides us challenging career opportunities for our team members.  That helps us attract great talent and provide great service.  As we gain more opportunities beyond our local region, we continually evaluate where new office locations will help us to better serve our clients.  Allentown and Baltimore are growing areas, and we are finding great receptiveness in the marketplace to our philosophy of excellent service from talented, engaged professionals," said Terry Harris, Managing Partner.

McKonly & Asbury serves clients with operations and facilities across the globe, but concentrated within the MidAtlantic.  These new office locations provide a closer proximity to client locations and to employee's hometowns.  For example, following the acquisition of Financial Outsourcing Solutions – the firm's banking internal audit practice section – the firm had dozens of clients in Lehigh Valley, suburban Philadelphia, Northern and Central New Jersey, and the Hudson River Valley.  Four members of the FOS team lived within the Lehigh Valley and were commuting to the firm's Lancaster Office when not on client site.  "Our Lehigh Valley office gives our employees better quality of life in the form of shorter commutes.  We have had team members telecommuting from the Baltimore area for almost a year now as well.    We think that opening new offices will lead to better client service.  It also shows our commitment to these markets for the long term.  We're here and we plan to stay," said Harris.

The Firm's Lehigh Valley office is located at 7535 Windsor Drive in Allentown, PA – part of the Iron Run Corporate Center.  The Baltimore Metro Office is at Executive Plaza III, Suite 300, 11350 McCormick Rd, Hunt Valley, MD 21031.

About McKonly & Asbury LLP
McKonly & Asbury LLP is a leading regional accounting and consulting firm with over 100 employees and 40 CPAs.  The firm has offices in Camp Hill, PA and Lancaster, PA.  McKonly and Asbury is ranked by the Central Penn Business Journal as the 2nd largest accounting firm in Central Pennsylvania and named an All-Star by Inside Public Accounting in 2006 and 2007, ranking McKonly & Asbury as one of the ten fastest growing accounting firms in the nation for 2006, and as an industry leader in management metrics for 2007.  Five years running, McKonly & Asbury has been named a Best Place to Work in PA by The Best Companies Group. 

McKonly & Asbury provides audit, tax and consulting services to many of the region's largest and most well-known companies and organizations.  The firm also has three affiliated companies:  Anchor Financial Group provides investment advisory services for individuals and qualified retirement plans.  Financial Outsourcing Solutions is a provider of outsourced internal audit services to the banking industry.  McKonly Benefits is a benefits brokerage and employee benefits consulting company.  McKonly & Asbury is an independent member of IGAF Worldwide.  For more information, please visit McKonly & Asbury at www.macpas.com .

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For more information please contact Jim Rodgers at 717.761.7910 or by email at jrodgers@macpas.com .