Today, educational institutions, including colleges, universities, and secondary and elementary schools are rethinking their management and financial strategies. This is the result of issues surrounding increased donor and stakeholder scrutiny, escalating energy costs, high costs of information technology and increased board and audit committee oversight.

At Smith and Associates, our educational institutions services professionals recognize the unique challenges that educational institutions face in today’s business and regulatory environment. Educational institutions have variety of industry specific issues and compliance reporting requirements that need to be addressed by a team of experienced industry experts. Educational institutions deserve to be serviced by a team of professionals that are not general not-for-profit auditors, but rather a dedicated team with hands-on educational institution experience.

To best serve the needs of this industry segment, Smith and Associates has created a group that provides services principally to educational institutions. As part of our industry and service commitment, our educational institutions services group can provide your institution with the necessary business intelligence and financial advice that will allow time to focus on fulfilling your mission and objectives.

Services we provide

• Audits of not-for-profit, private and public schools and colleges and proprietary schools and colleges
• Accounting and taxation services
• Internal audit services
• Agreed upon procedures
• Internal control
• Risk management