Accounting and Auditing

With the issues, challenges and opportunities facing businesses today, Spilman is poised to provide quality service and relevant financial information to deal with those challenges.  Our audit process will provide business insight and ideas we gain through our understanding of your internal and external business drivers.  Spilman stands above the rest with our approach to service delivery.  This includes our ability to understand your vision, align our capabilities and deliver those capabilities to you through a relationship that takes into account your expectations, wants and needs.

Financial Statement Audits

Spilman is On The Mark in providing quality financial statement audits.  With our experience, we have developed a strong audit process that will provide you with business insight and ideas.  Through our process, we gain an understanding of your business drivers and stakeholders in order to target your most critical areas of vulnerability and risks.  We stay abreast of the issues and risks you face in order to provide proactive insight into mitigating those risks.

Other Assurance Services

Spilman also offers other attest services including reviews and compilations. In addition, we can provide services for agreed-upon procedures, compliance audits and other matters.

You will benefit from our vast industry knowledge. With the depth of our staff’s experience and our client diversity, we are equipped to serve your needs.

Manufacturing, Distribution and Technology

Working in manufacturing, distribution and technology means reacting to business events in real time and making products in response to customer demand all while attempting to improve profitability, reduce business and manufacturing complexity, and find better insights to stay on top. The experienced professionals at Spilman recognize that the challenge to this sector is immense. Manufacturing, distribution and technology clients- from start up’s to large multi-national corporations- represent one of the largest sectors of our practice, the pillar on which we have built the firm. Our dedicated professionals are second to none in our market and are dedicated to providing solutions and answers to this industry’s challenges.

Construction and Real Estate

From acquisition to development to project management, maintaining a profitable construction or real estate business is a continual challenge. Spilman works with our construction and real estate clients in a variety of ways from assisting with the financial reporting required for maintaining bank financing and bonding to helping them minimize tax liabilities and plan for future growth.

Government

Spilman has a team of accountants that specialize in the government sector. A growing focus of Spilman, the government team has experience with public colleges and universities, counties, cities and other governmental agencies. Team members receive relevant continuous education throughout the year to meet Government Auditing Standards.

Our firm is a member of the Government Audit Quality Center (GAQC) of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).  As a GAQC member firm, we are committed to providing quality audit services to our governmental clients.  We voluntarily adhere to higher standards of audit quality in our policies, procedures and training related to performance of governmental audits.  These standards are the benchmark of our commitment to quality performance and client service.  The GAQC is an AICPA Center formed to help CPAs meet the challenges of performing audits in this unique and complex area.  The Center is a firm-based voluntary membership center for firms that perform governmental audits.  It helps member firms understand the current issues and how they affect governmental audits.  Membership in this group helps us to remain up to date on the latest changes in the government auditing standards and to comply with audit requirements in this specialized area.

A-133 Single Audit

There is increasing demand for accountability and transparency in not-for-profit financial reporting. Like a regular financial statement audit, an A-133 single audit validates financial statement information but it also takes a close look at how the organization complies with the federal regulations associated with each federal grant.

Ohio Revised Code

Governmental entities must comply with State laws and regulations.  Our auditors are well-versed with the Ohio Revised Code and equipped to audit compliance with the Ohio Compliance Supplement, as required by the Auditor of State.

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Not For Profit / Higher Education

Spilman has a team of accountants that specialize in the not-for-profit sector. Team members receive relevant continuous education throughout the year on various topics such as classification of net assets, endowments, tax matters and operational improvement.

403(b)

Because of recent statutory and administrative changes in the rules governing 403(b) plans, many not-for-profits may encounter new challenges ensuring that their 403(b) arrangements satisfy the complex requirements outlined by both the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

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Employee Benefit Plans

Generally, Federal law requires employee benefit plans with 100 or more participants to have an audit as part of their obligation to file an annual return/report (Form 5500 Series) with the IRS and DOL. Independent audits of employee benefit plan financial statements are an important accountability mechanism. A quality audit will help protect the assets and the financial integrity of the employee benefit plan and ensure that the necessary funds will be available to pay retirement, health, and other promised benefits to plan participants.

Spilman has many years of experience in performing audits of employee benefit plans, primarily defined contribution and defined benefit retirement plans.  We have a dedicated team  who have the training and experience required to perform these specialized audits.

Our firm is a member of the Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center (EBPAQC) of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). As an EBPAQC member firm, we are committed to providing quality audit services to ERISA plans. We voluntarily adhere to higher standards of audit quality in our policies, procedures and training related to the performance of benefit plan audits. These standards are the benchmark of our commitment which are mainly defined contribution and defined benefit retirement plans. We have to quality performance and client service. The EBPAQC is an AICPA Center formed to help CPA’s meet the challenges of performing audits in this unique and complex area. The Center is a firm-based voluntary membership center for firms that audit employee benefit plans. It helps member firms to understand current issues and how they affect employee benefit plan audits. Membership in this group helps us to remain up to date on the latest changes in the audit standards for benefit plan audits and to comply with audit requirements in this specialized area