Bringing mission-critical organizational intelligence to higher education
The BerryDunn team brings deep experience to both public and private colleges and universities, with a keen ability to analyze complex organizations and develop actionable strategies to optimize business, operations, and development functions, allowing greater focus on mission fulfillment. Our team is comprised of a diverse group of CPAs and IT management consultants, all with extensive experience in the realm of higher education. We bring insight and perspective from our work with higher education institutions throughout the United States.
We have a deep understanding of industry trends, a thorough awareness of best practices, and an independent perspective that informs clear, objective recommendations tailored to each client’s circumstances. Higher education clients benefit from our expertise in a variety of areas:
Accounting and tax planning services
- Control growing infrastructure, operations, recruiting, staff, and faculty costs
- Navigate the complexities of endowment accounting
- Address new accounting and auditing pronouncements on the organization’s financial statements and related systems
- Manage NCAA agreed-upon procedures
- Satisfy US Department of Education composite scoring requirements
Management and IT consulting services
- Align your resources with institutional needs via organizational redesign
- Deliver project advisory services such as Quality Assurance (QA) and Third-Party Owner’s Representative (TPOR)
- Develop strategies for cloud migrations
- Improve business processes and manage change
- Assess and advance governance, risk, and security practices
- Reduce administrative costs by improving operational efficiency
- Target technical debt in enterprise systems
BerryDunn is also an active participant in NACUBO, EDUCAUSE, and other industry associations. We continually strive to keep clients informed of key industry developments, and we work collaboratively with client stakeholders to develop, revise, and implement organizational strategies, and encourage broad adoption of key initiatives.
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