OUR TEAM
SCOTT E.
SILVESTAIN, CPA
FOUNDER & CEO
703.754.8087
CANDEE
ROTH
MANAGING PARTNER, GADFLY LEDGERS
WE ARE GADFLY
Gadfly is a cloud-based accounting firm providing innovative and customized solutions tailored for clients of all sizes. Our goal is to maximize your success, while simplifying and safeguarding your business operations - All in order to help you identify and improve key performance indicators for your specific business.
Unlike traditional accounting firms that are just selling their time billing by the hour and only providing tax returns, we offer intellectual capital through an involved business partnership. We are a full service firm, offering business consulting, bookkeeping, payroll, tax planning, business analysis, and more.
Whether you're a real estate investor or business owner, we can help you achieve your financial goals.
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Most public accounting firms mean well, but ultimately you are only as good as your last billable hour. By removing the metric of billing time, our professionals can focus on their work and, more importantly, our clients. At Gadfly Associates, you will renew your passion for our noble profession. And that is our key to success! The more our professionals enjoy their work, the better the results for our clients.
WE'RE DIFFERENT...HERE'S WHY
COMPLETING PROJECTS VS. ENTERING TIME
Tired of logging in countless billable hours that will leave either your client or your partner less than satisfied? Meanwhile clients simply don’t care about the number of hours we work – They only care about
the results. Gadfly Associates uses a project-oriented approach with fixed pricing and fixed deadlines, so that the client is never surprised by their bill. It is only when we establish expectations upfront, that we
can ever then exceed them later on. At our firm, there are no contests for who has the most billable
hours. We only care about two things: Your well-being and results for our clients.
EFFICIENT OR EFFECTIVE
Do you enjoy your annual performance reviews at your firm? There is nothing like giving the best of
yourself to your employer only to have them counsel you about being more billable, or to have less
G&A time or even worse – to be more efficient. Did anyone ever suggest that Michelangelo could have
been more efficient? There is no way he could have billed all of his time to paint that ceiling. And
honestly, Jonas Salk could have probably cured polio faster if he had only put in more time on the
weekends . . . . but everyone works best at their own pace. At Gadfly Associates, our focus is
not on efficiency as much as it is on how effective you are for our clients
TRUEBALANCE
Other firms will talk about offering a work/life balance, but it is generally just talk because all those firms
are selling is your time. The almighty billable hour naturally corrodes your sense of time and deteriorates
the very idea of being a professional. When firms view client activity in incremental units of time, it only serves to punish professionals focused on long-term client relationships. Gadfly Associates can better control our workload because we maintain a very selective clientele - allowing us to take however long
as is necessary to ensure our clients' goals are met. It is our philosophy that we have no business
accepting new customers unless all our existing clients are completely satisfied.
