About our Firm
Our Mission
CHU and WATERS, LLP mission statement to our clients is our commitment to provide innovative, personalized, cost-effective accounting, management advisory, and forward tax planning services to assist them in achieving their personal and corporate business goals.
Our Practice Area
Our practice is primarily with middle market clientele. We have extensive working knowledge and experience with financial reporting, financing needs and tax matters of the middle market business environment and are able to service each client with one account administrator/partner, with the firm as additional support. The single account administrator/partner client servicing approach allows the management team personnel of CHU and WATERS, LLP to provide more versatility to its clients through expertise in both financial and tax matters. This is a different approach from national firms where financial reporting is handled by one partner and tax by another partner. In addition, we have close working relationships with major and local banking institutions as well as equipment leasing companies relative to the financing and capital needs of our clients.
CHU and WATERS, LLP system of quality control for the accounting and auditing practice was recently reviewed as required for membership to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). After thorough study of our policies and procedures, the reviewers concluded our firm complies with the stringent quality control standards established by the AICPA. Our firm is committed to periodic peer review to foster quality performance.
Our Partners
The founders of the firm, Jack W. Chu and Corey R. Waters, have worked together for the past twenty-five years.
Jack W. Chu, CPA
Jack W. Chu brings to the firm over thirty years of experience as a certified public accountant and was previously with a national accounting firm. His undergraduate studies were in business administration at the University of California at Berkeley, with an emphasis in accounting and finance. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1972 and completed his graduate studies with a Master of Science in taxation from Golden Gate University.
Mr. Chu is currently a board member of S.H. Cowell Foundation, a San Francisco based philanthropic foundation with $180 million in assets and grants to family resource centers, youth development programs, affordable housing, and public education improvement programs. Mr. Chu is also a board member of Alta Alliance Bank, a member of the Western Alliance Bancorporation and an NYSE public company with assets in excess of $4.0 billion. In addition, Mr. Chu is Co-Founder and past President, Treasurer, and Board Member of the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC), a non-profit organization developing affordable and low income housing with $200 million in assets. He was also past board member of Community Bank of The Bay as well as past Treasurer and board member of the Family Service Agency of San Francisco, a non-profit agency with an operating budget of $10 million which provides family support and managed care services to moderate and low income families.
Jack W. Chu can be reached at info@chuwaters.net
Corey R. Waters, CPA
Corey R. Waters has over twenty years of accounting, auditing and tax experience. Mr. Waters started his accounting career after graduating from San Francisco State University in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration cum-laude, emphasis in accounting, and has completed his graduate studies with a Master of Science in taxation from Golden Gate University. Mr. Waters is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, The California Society of Certified Public Accountants and maintains CHU and WATERS, LLP quality control systems.
Corey R. Waters can be reached at info@chuwaters.net
