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Audit & Attestation Services We Offer
Agreed Upon Procedures (AUP)
A full financial statement audit isn’t always required to provide factual reporting without opinions, conclusions or assurances for a specific issue or purpose. In those cases, an AUP will provide you with more flexibility for issues such as effectiveness of a specific internal control, fraud investigations, status of your regulatory reporting and much more.
Learn more about our agreed upon procedures services.
Employee Benefit Plan/Retirement Plan Audits
If your business or organization has more than 100 employees or former employees participating in an employee benefit plan (EBP), you may be required by the Department of Labor (DOL) to engage an independent CPA firm to perform an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) audit of that plan. An ERISA audit determines if the plan follows all regulations and standards and if the plan trustees are meeting their fiduciary responsibilities.
Benefit plan audits are an opportunity to discover weaknesses in internal controls and position you as an effective steward of the plan’s financial resources by identifying opportunities to streamline plan benefits, features and operations.
Learn more about benefit plan audits.
Financial Statement Audits
An audit of your financial statements is intended to meet compliance requirements and to provide creditors, investors, federal and state agencies and other outside parties with a high level of comfort about the accuracy of your statements. This service includes a formal audit report that expresses a conclusion as to the accuracy of the financial statements.
An audit isn’t intended to uncover fraud or embezzlement, but it may identify material weaknesses and other control deficiencies and set the stage for discussions, insights, observations and guidance for their resolution.
As auditors, we aim to connect with our clients year-round by:
- Answering questions and providing guidance throughout the year
- Streamlining the process with resources and checklists to help you prepare and reduce the time your team needs to devote to an annual audit
Learn more about financial statement audit services.
Governmental Audit Services
An annual municipal audit is a standard part of government operations and provides important details about the financial condition of the entity. Through an examination of receipts, expenditures and unencumbered cash, your municipal audit report provides elected officials and taxpayers with a better understanding of the full picture of the municipality’s financial position.
Municipal audits provide you with:
- assurance that financial statements are free of material misstatements.
- confidence that the internal control structure of the government is effective and working efficiently
Kansas local government audit requirements allow entities to decide whether to use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) or the Kansas Municipal Audit and Accounting Guide (KMAAG) for your audit standards. Depending on which methodology you choose, there are often different challenges and opportunities to navigate.
Learn more about governmental audit services.
Reviews & Compilations
Reviews consist of examining financial statements to determine whether they are consistent with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). A review provides lenders and other outside parties with a basic level of assurance about the accuracy of financial statements.
Sometimes lenders and other outside parties don’t require a full audit, but they need a compilation report. Businesses typically need a compilation report when requesting a relatively low amount of financing or credit or when you have a significant amount of collateral in place.
Learn more about reviews and compilations and the difference between reviews, compilations and audits.