Governmental Accounting Services

Governmental accounting tailored to meet your needs

BerryDunn’s governmental accounting team approaches each new engagement with an open mind, assessing client needs objectively in order to inform clear, powerful, and actionable recommendations. We partner with clients to establish compliance practices, optimize processes, and enhance the overall financial reporting process.

Services

BerryDunn’s governmental accounting team provides an array of customized services to support each client. Our engagements are staffed by Principals, Senior Managers, and Managers who take the time to know and understand each client.

Assurance and compliance

Technical accounting assistance

Outsourced accounting

Grant management

Assurance and compliance

Our team has deep audit and assurance experience, accounting and audit standards expertise, and an understanding of compliance requirements. We work with you to identify potential weaknesses and areas for improvement, while working to improve the efficiency of your operational functions.

Audits of component units

We tailor our audit approach to meet your needs, helping you meet reporting requirements and understand new accounting pronouncements.

Uniform Guidance audits

Our team has the experience and expertise to thoroughly and efficiently complete Uniform Guidance audits, while helping you bridge the gap between programmatic and financial compliance requirements.

Internal audits

We provide an objective perspective, arming audit departments with additional resources and expertise.

Internal control reviews

Our team can assess your existing internal control program, and then work closely with stakeholders to identify strengths and vulnerabilities.

Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (CSLFRF) compliance

We assist entities eligible for the alternative compliance examination engagement as it relates to CSLFRF federal funding.

Business process improvement

Our team works in close partnership with clients to objectively and holistically examine business processes, developing strategies to realize—and maximize—the value of every asset.

Technical accounting assistance

BerryDunn’s governmental accounting team works closely with key stakeholders to ensure records are clear, regulations are scrupulously followed, and operations are compliant. We work with your team to address complex GASB accounting issues, implement new accounting pronouncements, and maintain a state of perpetual audit readiness.

GASB pronouncement
implementation

We work with clients to plan, implement, and monitor necessary changes.

Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) compilation

We can manage the compilation of your ACFR, including footnotes, off your plate so you can focus on your day-to-day operations.

Audit remediation and readiness services

Our team works closely with management to reconcile key accounts, maintain audit schedules, and prepare your entity to emerge from the audit process with minimal impact.

Outsourced accounting

From short-term assignments to long-term engagements, we can help lighten the load with our outsourced accounting services.

CFO services

We can help you stay on track, providing day-to-day finance support when your entity may be going through a transition.

Accounting support

Our team of highly trained and dedicated accountants and bookkeepers can serve as an extension of your team.

Grant management

BerryDunn has extensive experience working with organizations receiving federal grants and awards. We help clients develop risk-based, data-driven monitoring programs that balance compliance with grant optimization.

Subrecipient reporting

Provide subrecipient monitoring assistance for the grant awarding process, policies and procedures, and compliance practices.

Grant compliance services

Maintain compliance with federal requirements of Uniform Guidance (2 C.F.R. § 200), Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) and US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

How BerryDunn can help

Our experienced team of accountants, auditors, grant management specialists, and business analysts can help you navigate the often confusing and shifting governmental accounting and internal control landscape.

Our team has extensive experience advising cities, counties, and states on GASB accounting. We develop reporting, procurement, and monitoring systems that enable clients to manage and optimize funds.

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"The BerryDunn team was knowledgeable, accessible, and collaborative, which made working with them a pleasure. They performed a risk assessment of program operations focused on financial recording and reporting processes and specific recommendations for improvement. The improvements abated potential financial security risks and enhanced NHPD's ability to move forward with confidence."

Randy Hawkes

Retired Executive Director

New Hampshire Public Defender

"Due to unfilled positions, we needed highly skilled technical and auditing services to complete our annual audit. The BerryDunn team understood our strengths and weaknesses and made suggestions about where their services could be most helpful, offering flexible options on how they could assist us. The staff was highly knowledgeable and exceeded our expectations. We have utilized other consultants but never had an experience like this."

Ann Barton

Comptroller

City of Burlington, VT

"We hired BerryDunn because VCTC has a small finance staff and we needed assistance with GASB 87 and 96 calculations. Their work was complete, on time, and accurate. The communication and follow-up were appreciated, as was the thought given to our organization's current and potential future issues. The overall experience of working with BerryDunn was wonderful, and I wish we had found them sooner!"

Sally DeGeorge, CPA, CCMT

Ventura County Transportation Commission

"Switching audit firms can be a daunting task. As a first-time client, I was impressed by the way BerryDunn's audit team listened to our needs and quickly learned our organization's operating norms. They were supportive and respectful and were always there to answer any questions we had. I've worked with many firms in the past, and I really appreciated their focus on providing education to our leadership and board. We're very pleased with the work and would welcome the opportunity to work with BerryDunn in the future."

Laurie Bowie

Director of Finance & HR

Casco Bay Island Transit District

Governmental accounting

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Governmental accounting tailored to meet your needs

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Assurance and compliance

Technical accounting assistance

Outsourced accounting

Grant management

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