Events
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Power Panels Provide Entrepreneurs Guidance for Staying Power
DETROIT , June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- It is not enough to simply start your own business. It is staying power that makes the difference. This year's Detroit Black Expo is focusing on guidance, advice, resources, and the necessary tools to help entrepreneurs do just that. The International Detroit Black Expo takes place over the weekend of June 5-7, 2009 at the Detroit Marriott-Renaissance Center . The event is free and open to the public. Power Panels feature panelists and keynote speakers from varied industries critical to entrepreneurial knowledge, growth and success: -
Illinois CPAs to New Graduates: Start Life Right With Lessons Learned From a Tough Economy
CHICAGO , June 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At high schools and universities graduates are hearing commencement speeches filled with messages of hope and support. They're entering a tough world where jobs are few, costs are high, and mom and dad may be low on funds themselves. -
ArvinMeritor Regains Compliance With NYSE's Continued Listing Standards
TROY, Mich. , June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ArvinMeritor, Inc. (NYSE: ARM) today announced that on June 1, 2009 , the company was notified by the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. ("NYSE") that, based upon modified listing standards adopted by the NYSE, it has regained compliance with the NYSE's continued listing standards.
ASSURANCE & ADVISORY
Timely and accurate financial reporting provides you with the critical information needed to make key business decisions and meet today's demanding requirements by regulators and financial institutions. Whether it's the SEC, Yellow Book requirements, private equity investors, venture capitalists or your banker, SingerLewak delivers for the client. Through regular contact, we provide our clients with comprehensive and detailed information that influences the bottom line.
The Assurance & Advisory team at SingerLewak is comprised of a highly skilled group of professionals. Our extensive experience provides the trusted perspective needed to deliver quality auditing and accounting services efficiently.
Assurance Services:
- Financial statement audits
- Audits of internal control over financial reporting
- Audits of employee benefit plans
- Financial statement reviews
- Financial statement compilations
Audit Services:
Whether public companies with audit requirements, or private companies seeking capital, or either one looking for debt covenant obligations, an audit provides the means to comply with your statutory requirements. An audit also provides you with critical information for making well-informed decisions about your business.
Because audits are a significant undertaking, we have developed our exclusive A+ program for our clients. The A+ program is designed to provide clients with an enhanced experience during their audit and to provide them with the information and relationship needed to meet ongoing requirements, including workshops, seminars, webcasts, newsletters, and accounting and reporting updates.
The core of our A+ program is value-added services which go above and beyond the numbers. To ensure that we provide a quality product while maintaining service and fee discipline, we have also developed an Audit Quality System (AQS), unique to SingerLewak. The AQS provides a roadmap of our service and delivery standards for our clients. The AQS is designed to manage the three components of every audit: Cost, Standards and Schedule.
Effective management of these components comprises the structure that we call the AQS Triangle.
AQS: Audit Quality System:
We have designed the AQS to ensure:
- Consistency in engagement staffing and job management
- Management communication and audit committee that results in no surprises
- A truly risk-based approach, not a check-the-box audit
- Subject matter experts available and in touch with the challenges of your business and industry
- Technical reviewers that care as much about your judgment as they do their own
- A schedule of all key dates, deadlines and requirements related to our field work and your filing requirements that we stick to
Further, this risk-based audit approach gives us an in-depth understanding of our client's operations, greater assurance as to the reliability of their financial statements, and a fee estimate based on the risks of the business, and not the audit of insignificant items.
We are registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and a member of the Audit Quality Center of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), as well as the Government Audit Quality Center and the Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center. Our assurance practice has earned unmodified reports in our peer reviews.
Other Assurance & Advisory Services
SingerLewak also offers a wide array of other Assurance & Advisory Services designed to help you manage your company more effectively. Our complete assurance services include:
- Agreed upon procedures
- Internal control examinations for SAS 70 reliance
- Examinations and attestation reports
- Bookkeeping and entrepreneurial services
- Cash flow analysis
- CEO coaching
- Fraud prevention program development
- Technical accounting advice
- Transaction Advisory Services
- Quality of earnings reports
- Financial due diligence
- Tax due diligence
- Operational due diligence
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