Accounting Firms

Aon’s Commercial Risk Solutions, Professional Services practice is the premier provider of insurance broking and risk advisory services to the accounting profession.

We are dedicated to serving the needs of the accounting profession, and have been delivering advisory and insurance broking services to the world's leading accounting firms for over 60 years. Through our long-term commitment to this highly specialized field we have developed unparalleled resources, which include expertise in:

• commercial insurance and reinsurance
• risk assessment, including actuarial analysis
• risk intelligence, including research and reporting
• risk funding strategies and program design

We also maintain an ongoing commitment to research and development pertaining to risk as it relates to the ever-evolving accounting profession.

We operate as a fully integrated global team, located in London, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Bermuda and Montreal. We have an international perspective, but one that is channeled into a single vision of exemplary client service, delivered with exceptional efficiency and performance.

We are proud to be a trusted partner with many of the world's finest professional service firms. Through many years of dedication and commitment to our client group we have built a strong reputation for client service excellence and creative problem solving. Our business environment is – like that of our clients – both challenging and demanding, but our performance record attests to how, as a group, we are energized and driven by it – and by the value that we place on our relationship with the accounting profession.

We strive to provide clear, well reasoned answers to our clients' business and risk-related questions encountered by our clients. We believe that a well planned, systematic approach to the understanding and evaluation of risk provides the best foundation for the selection and development of risk financing solutions, including the purchase of insurance. We also recognize that our clients are sophisticated organizations, with their own individual needs and priorities, to which solutions must be carefully matched.

We closely monitor the existing risk environment, to identify emerging issues and to respond to our clients' concerns. We also enable our clients to be better informed about risk pertaining to prospective business developments, such as diversification or expansion.

We believe it is important to respect the time-tested strength of traditional insurance practice - but not be constrained by it. There is a place for creative alternatives - if they can be well understood and evaluated. We combine traditional practice with modern techniques to design solutions that respond to our clients' objectives and preferences.

Today's accounting profession is served by a global insurance market. Experience, knowledge and valued relationships - developed across the full breadth of that market - are essential to fully effective insurance broking performance. We maintain a full-time, direct presence of insurance and reinsurance brokers in the leading market locations (London, New York and Bermuda), so as to obtain the coverage, pricing and service standards sought by our clients. We also maintain strong ties with broking colleagues in Aon offices throughout Europe, Asia and Australia to ensure that emerging sources of insurance/reinsurance capacity and innovative methods of financing risk are fully considered in conjunction with the needs of our clients.

Legal, fiscal and regulatory compliance have emerged as important concerns for virtually all international business. Compliance measures must stand up to scrutiny and effectively protect the organization, while also being in line with its commercial objectives. We have many years of experience and investment dedicated to addressing our clients' compliance needs.

We understand the logistical challenges involved in meeting major accounting firms' risk and insurance objectives. From the verification of coverage and the issuance of documentation, through premium allocation and collection, to the management of a captive insurance company, we provide support services designed to bring discipline, organization and exemplary client service to a wide variety of projects and tasks.

We have served as the focal point for the collection of literally billions of dollars of insurance claims on behalf of our accounting firm clients. We are able to draw from that experience to advise clients on how to work effectively with insurers if and when claims arise. In the unlikely event of a dispute with an insurer, we also stand ready to combine our experience and insight with the strength of Aon's reputation and commercial presence as the world's largest insurance broker to advocate on behalf of our clients' interests.