the southfield, mich., accounting firm has grown revenue 40 percent in the last three years while adding 30 percent more staff.
managing partner don clayton (pictured at desk) and shareholder kevin mckervey are targeting growing, mid-sized companies with global ambitions.
they credit the firm’s growth to their focus on identifying and pursuing the one thing that they can be best at, what “good to great” author jim collins calls a company’s “hedgehog” concept. for c&m, that’s helping entrepreneurial companies from other nations expand into the u.s. and u.s. companies to go abroad. the firm counts new clients from china, britain and mexico.
“we’ve got a razor-sharp focus,” clayton said. “that’s a competitive advantage.”
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