About Chen & Fan · San Jose
Chen & Fan Accountancy Corporation is a CPA firm founded in 1972 in Los Angeles as the first CPA firm established by Chinese immigrants in the United States. It expanded nationally and internationally, opening offices in San Jose (1992) and San Diego (1997), and now serves clients across the U.S. with a focus on accounting, auditing, taxation, and business advisory. The firm is registered with the PCAOB and a member of the Center for Audit Quality, emphasizing quality, expertise, and client-focused service.
Chen & Fan Accountancy Corporation provides professional accounting, auditing, taxation, and business advisory services to clients across the United States, including multinational corporations, manufacturers, banks, individuals, and public companies in Asia. Founded in 1972 as the first CPA firm by Chinese immigrants, the firm rebranded in 1992 and expanded its geographic reach with offices in San Jose and San Diego. It is registered with the PCAOB and a member of the Center for Audit Quality, ensuring compliance with high professional standards. The firm’s team includes nine partners and numerous professional staff, strategically mobilized to meet client needs efficiently and at reasonable cost.
- In business
- since 1972
- Serves
- Northern, central, and southern California; clients across the United States
About Us
Chen & Fan Accountancy Corporation is a CPA firm focused on meeting the needs of clients in the area of accounting, auditing, taxation, and business advisory. We serve clients across the United States from several offices located throughout California. As a professional services firm with upmost emphasis on quality, we place strict standards and high expectations on our professional staff to deliver services by obtaining a thorough understanding of client needs, acquiring knowledge and expertise in services rendered, and providing results efficiently at reasonable cost.
Firm History
The firm was established in Los Angeles in 1972 as the first CPA firm founded by Chinese immigrants in the United States. Since its establishment, the firm had further reorganized to expand services and geographic reach. After naming the firm Chen & Fan Accountancy Corporation in 1992 in view of expanding its service areas and increasing its partnership and professional staff, it opened a branch office in the San Jose/Silicon valley area in Northern California. In 1997, it also established a branch office in San Diego to extend locational reach to the Mexican border. Although its service area is focused in northern, central and southern California, the firm also serves clients located in many other states throughout the U.S. Currently the firm has nine partners and scores of professional staff. The head and branch offices are served by various partners. The professional staff of the entire firm can be mobilized strategically to meet the needs of its clients in providing quality professional accounting, auditing, taxation and financial consulting services. The partners of the firm have extensive backgrounds in practice gained through employment with Chen & Fan, as well as their former involvement with international organizations. The firm’s clientele includes multinational companies, manufacturers, distributors, banks, professional firms, construction contractors, importers/exporters, R&D centers, individuals, and many others. Having knowledge of SEC requirements and experience in assisting companies to go public, Chen & Fan also provides auditing, international tax planning, financial consulting services to a number of clients who are public companies in Asia.