Manufacturing clients represent the single largest group of the firm's clientele. We believe that our collective knowledge of manufacturing industries surpasses that of any other accounting firm in our market.

We maintain and support a Manufacturing and Distribution Services Group, headed up by Bob Power and Diana Schaney, Partners in our Erie office. 

Dean Fair, the Managing Partner, was also a Charter Member of the Manufacturing and Distribution Task Force of PKF/NAN, an international association of accounting firms with over 80 members in North America.

The Group distributes a Manufacturing and Distribution newsletter, copies of which are available for you in the "Library" on this web site. If you would like to subscribe to this newsletter, please forward your request to Dean Fair via E-mail.

McGill, Power, Bell & Associates, LLP has been a pioneer in the application of computer technology to financial and management information systems and business solutions since the 1970's. We are the only firm that we know of in our market area to develop some of the most sophisticated job costing software available anywhere in the United States.

We build on our knowledge of the manufacturing sector to provide a wide range of Management Consulting services, particularly in the application of activity-based costing to cost accounting and analytic techniques such as "real options" and "discounted cash flow" to assist with decision making with investment strategies. We are also specialists in the field of corporate taxes.

Our featured article:
"New 2005 Manufacturing Deduction"
In the Fall 2005 a new tax deduction became available to manufacturers