Grant and fund accounting, audit preparation, month-end close support and cleanup — handled by a CPA rather than passed to a bookkeeper. Based in Washington, DC, working with organizations here and nationwide.
Nonprofit accounting is not ordinary bookkeeping with different labels on it. Restricted funds, grant reporting and Single Audit requirements are their own discipline, and the consequences of getting them wrong land on your auditor's desk rather than yours.
Larger firms staff engagements like yours with junior preparers and review the file later. Here the person who does the reconciliations is the person who holds the license, which is what makes a small engagement worth doing properly.
I scope each engagement to a defined body of work rather than an open retainer, and agree the deliverables and the fee in writing before starting.
Grant funding carries reporting obligations. Where the general ledger is not structured around donor restrictions, required reporting must be reconstructed manually each period.
Fieldwork delays frequently originate in schedules that were not tied to the trial balance in advance of the auditor's arrival.
Timely closes depend on reconciliations being completed correctly the first time. Where they are not, the delay compounds across periods and obscures the financial position management relies on.
Accounting records fall behind for predictable reasons, including staff turnover and growth that outpaces existing processes. The consequence generally surfaces when statements are requested by a lender, grantor or auditor.
QuickBooks files commonly accumulate inconsistencies over time, particularly where transaction entry has been handled without accounting oversight.
Revenue recognition and lease accounting questions are most efficiently resolved before a position is reflected in issued financial statements.
The work helps most where an organization owes reporting to a funder, a board or an auditor and lacks the internal finance capacity to produce it comfortably.
Membership organizations, advocacy groups and foundations tracking restricted funds across multiple awards.
Organizations administering federal awards, including those approaching a Single Audit threshold.
A first audit, a new auditor, or schedules never prepared to the standard fieldwork requires.
Companies whose volume has outgrown a bookkeeper but does not yet justify a controller.
After a finance lead departs, during a systems migration, or before a funding round.
Practices needing overflow capacity on nonprofit engagements through busy season.
Tell me what you need, which system your records sit in, and when it has to be finished. I will reply with whether I can help and what it would cost.
request@dalicpa.com