Events
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AICPA Offers Consumers Financial Planning Advice on Holiday Shopping
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Four Bober, Markey, Fedorovich Professionals Receive Credentials in Financial Forensics
AKRON, Ohio , Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The regional accounting firm of Bober, Markey, Fedorovich (BMF) announced that four of its professional staff have earned credentials as "Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF)," a CPA specialty created by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) established this year for those who carry particular expertise in forensic accounting. -
Equitable Resources Board Approves 2009 Capital Budget
PITTSBURGH , Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Board of Directors of Equitable Resources, Inc. (NYSE: EQT) yesterday approved the company's capital budget for 2009. The company forecasts capital expenditures for 2009 of approximately $1.0 billion . -
Protiviti and SAP to Present Webinar on the Convergence of Enterprise Performance Management and Risk Management Amidst Unprecedented Business Challenges
MENLO PARK, Calif., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- WHAT: With the impact of globalization, new competitive threats, recessionary pressures and tough regulatory demands, it has never been more important for organizations to fully align and integrate strategy with risk and performance management. In those organizations where strategic and risk management activities are still conducted in isolation and where risk is a mere afterthought to strategy-setting, the results can be disastrous. Join Protiviti, a global business consulting and internal audit firm, and SAP for their next joint webinar about the convergence of enterprise performance management and risk management during the current economic crisis and beyond. In the hour-long session, experts will discuss how companies can: -- Create real-time transparency into an organization's operations -- Proactively identify and mitigate the risks inherent in the strategy -- Effectively communicate and deploy strategy in a consistent manner -- Ensure the seamless integration of strategic plans, risk management and performance management WHEN: Wednesday, December 10 at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST WHO: James DeLoach, Managing Director and Global GRC Solutions Leader, Protiviti Carl Waller, Managing Director and Global Finance Transformation Solutions Leader, Protiviti Jennifer Maddox, Director, Enterprise Performance Management and GRC, SAP HOW: Register for this complimentary webinar at http://www.protiviti.com/go/sapwebinar by December 9. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20051101/SFTU041LOGO) SOURCE Protiviti -
Trucktax(R) Deploys Paperless Driver Trip Reporting System to Simplify the IFTA and Fuel Tax Compliance Management Task in the Trucking Industry
MARKHAM, Ontario , Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- This system is an online trip report form that looks and functions like a paper form but is even easier to use. This online trip report system will relieve drivers of the time and effort required to prepare paper trip reports for their carrier company for use in driver pay settlement and State/Province IFTA Fuel Tax compliance reporting.
Practices
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