Producing financial reports is only part of our job-we do much more. We take a comprehensive business advisory approach to audit and accounting services to deliver not just reports, but better business solutions, and better results.

Assurance. As the name implies, this is what businesses of all sizes, and all industries, want when it comes to trust in financial reporting, and the integrity of financial information. Whether a private or public company, emerging or mid-sized firm, or a non-profit organization, you want assurance and risk management solutions that are independent, credible, objective, and accurate. Your business success today, and in the future, may well depend on it. At GHP Horwath, we provide comprehensive audit and accounting services and international assistance through our global association. We can also help you strengthen your internal controls, better manage risk, and improve the procedures that will build value and trust in your business.

Our ultimate goal with our assurance services is to provide information on past performance in a clear, proactive manner that can be used for your future benefit.

Optimizing Your Performance and Growth

Our assurance group provides the level of quality you might expect from a national firm. As an example, working with companies in a range of industries, we assist private firms seeking capitalization, from lending and private placements to initial public offerings. We work with public firms on audits for SEC filings, takeover and tender offers, and equity financing and borrowing. We can help you go public, go private, or assist with complex acquisitions and financial structuring requirements. For more, see Business Advisory services.

An increased need for corporate governance has prompted some companies to consider outsourcing all or part of their internal audit function to us. In all of these cases, we tailor our approach to meet your particular needs. We can assist your company in defining risks and recommending corrective action to reduce identified risks. And we make it our business to keep you informed of accounting developments and the latest regulations that may have an impact on your business as well.

Communicating With You on a Regular Basis

We carefully select your audit team and are committed to keeping the same team on an engagement whenever possible. We also believe that to properly plan and conduct an audit, we must fully understand your operations — your business plan, personnel, and systems of internal control. While the basic requirement of this engagement is to perform an audit and review of your company’s financial statements, we maintain close contact throughout the year with management and any governance boards or committees that will be formed. We keep you up to date on current matters that may impact your company — with the goal of avoiding year-end surprises. In fact, we hold an annual SEC Conference and Accounting & Auditing Update Seminar.

Risk Consulting

We currently work with approximately 39 public companies, and our team has extensive experience with the latest SEC reporting requirements. Our SOX 404 compliance services include risk assessment, process design and documentation, and internal control analysis and testing. With the GHP Horwath compliance approach, we involve the right stakeholders in the project at the right time. This ensures that we can deliver an efficient solution that meets the needs of both management and external auditors.

Assurance, Fast Facts

• Team: Audit department consists of 5 principals, 10 managers, and approximately 30 professional team members.
• Services include: External audits, reviews & compilations; SEC reporting; merger & acquisitions; risk management; Sarbanes-Oxley 404 compliance services; and international assistance.
• Industry focus: Hospitality, retailing, manufacturing, distribution, professional services, real estate, construction, technology, biotechnology, not-for-profit and governmental entities.
• Quality Control/Peer Review: August 2007, AICPA Division for CPA Firms, ‘unqualified (clean) opinion with no letter of comment.’
• Inspection: February 2005, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the Inspection team did not identify anything that it considered to be a quality control defect that warrants discussion in a Board inspection report. The PCAOB completed its second inspection fieldwork in November 2007, and we are currently waiting for the final inspection report.
• Use risk-based audit approach.
• Increase efficiencies with paperless audit and other sophisticated tools.
• Host annual SEC Reporting Conference, learn more.