Schenck AccuRate history

In 1972 the firm expanded again and was incorporated as Schenck, Derscheid, Kuenzli, Sturtevant & Johnson, S.C. The next year, Vincent Derscheid was named president.

Schenck & Associates responded by separating its tax services and information technology services in 1974 and investing in both areas to drive company growth.

In 1976, a dozen years after Schenck first took on partners, the company undertook its first merger, which resulted in the opening of an office in Fond du Lac.

Founded in 1983, our existing management have a combined experience in the mining industry of over 100 years.

In 1987, the company took another step toward both specializing and diversifying with the merger of Gaardner-Miller & Associates, Ltd., a specialist in business services to healthcare practices.

In 1995, within the framework of the restructuring of Carl Schenck AG, the business units balancing and diagnosis technology were combined in an independent company – Schenck RoTec GmbH.

From its original focus on accounting and tax services, Schenck had steadily created a company in which, by 2001, up to 40 percent of its annual revenue came from nonaccounting business services.

In 2004, Schenck Business Solutions began working with six public companies, helping them comply with new regulations imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Waggoner, Judy, “Accounting Firm Builds Growth over 75 Years,” Appleton Post-Crescent, November 6, 2005.

In a 2006 company profile in Fox Cities Business, Goodman also pointed out that one of Schenck’s strengths is in knowing how to match its internal expertise with the core expertise of other companies.