Who We Are Innes & Lotito, P.C. is a certified public accounting firm located in Mount Clemens, Michigan.  Jerry Innes & Mike Lotito started the firm in October 1992.  We had worked together for six years at one of the oldest local CPA firms prior to going out on our own.  We started our own firm for the most basic of all business reasons.  The firm where we had worked was sold, and we didn't get a warm fuzzy feeling about our future with the new owners.  So we were faced with the choice of learning how to dance to somebody else's tune or going into business for ourselves.  We elected what appeared to be the easier option.  We went into business. Sometimes in the early years of a new business venture there are doubts.  Certainly we had those doubts, too, especially when missing a family picnic or showing up late to one of our kid's birthday parties because of business commitments.  It can make you question the reason for going into business.  Are your efforts really producing a better life for your family, or is it some weird ego trip at the expense of your family?  But, fortunately, during those years, we were too busy to notice something as insignificant as our own personal lives.  So over the years the firm has grown, and it's no longer just two balding nerdy accountants.  We now have several other nerdy accountants working with us.  Of course, all of them have better hair than Mike and Jer. The experience of starting a business from scratch has given us a perspective that many other accountants don't have:  a deeper understanding and appreciation for the sacrifices that other business operators face every day.  As strange as it may sound, many larger accounting firms have no living founding members.  The accountants working for these firms have followed a career path that doesn't afford them any entrepreneurial insight or perspective of their own.

Who We Serve Most of our clients are located in the Detroit Metropolitan area, but we have a fair number of clients located in outstate Michigan as well as several in other states.  Many of our clients conduct business nationally and internationally. Our client base consists primarily of closely held businesses and not-for-profit organizations.  Over the years, we have provided services to an extremely diverse cross-section of businesses and individuals.  We are probably currently providing services to other companies in your industry.  We believe that the diversity in our practice gives us an edge because it gives us a depth of perspective of systems and processes that can be applied to any industry.  Be specializing in a single industry, there is a risk that your viewpoint, focus and judgment become too myopic.