Assurance, Advisory & Review
Templeton offers effective and cost-efficient, independent audits that are performed in a timely manner by our experienced team of professionals. Our objective to meet the very highest standards underlies our commitment to the development of stringent quality control procedures. We annually review select audit engagements to ensure that our audit policies and procedures are being followed.
More than Just an Audit
We approach each audit with an emphasis on early planning and work towards understanding how your business functions. This allows us to identify key audit components and tailor our audit procedures to the unique characteristics of your business and your industry. The results of our audit provides us with information that enables our team to generate insightful, constructive suggestions that can result in improved operations as well as operating and accounting procedures and controls. These recommendations are ultimately incorporated into our formal letter to management.
Our engagements can include:
- Financial statement audits, reviews and compilations
- Agreed-upon procedures engagements
- Acquisition planning and due diligence business investigations
- Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
- Strategic analysis and planning
- Forecasts and projections
- Outsource internal audit services
- Internal control reviews
- Operational efficiency reviews
Accounting Services
No matter the size or complexity of your business, we provide high-quality, value-added accounting services designed to meet your business needs.
To meet our clients’ unique needs, we deliver the following services:
- Fiduciary accounting
- Nonprofit accounting
- Fixed asset and depreciation reports
- Cash flow analysis
- Payroll tax issues
Nonprofits Have Additional Time to Comply with New Lease Accounting Standards
/in Assurance, Advisory & Review, Blog, Nonprofit /by Templeton CompanyBy Lee Klumpp, CPA, CGMA In 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) updated its lease accounting rules (ASC 842) and closed a diversity in practice in the previous standard. The major change is that organizations must now include lease assets and liabilities on their balance sheets. The upshot is that despite a recently granted […]
Is Your Organization Audit Ready?
/in Assurance, Advisory & Review, Blog, Nonprofit /by Templeton CompanyBy Barbara Finke, CPA First, what is an audit (and what is it not)? The purpose of an audit, as defined by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), is “to provide financial statement users with an opinion by the auditor on whether the financial statements are presented fairly, in all material respects, in […]
ASU 2016-14 – Liquidity and Availability Disclosure Issues
/in Assurance, Advisory & Review, Blog, Nonprofit /by John TempletonBy Tammy Ricciardella, CPA As calendar-year-end nonprofits have worked through the implementation of Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2016-14, Not-for-Profit Entities (Topic 958): Presentation of Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Entities, we have seen quite a bit of diversity in the preparation of the liquidity and availability disclosure required by the ASU. To improve the ability of […]