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Accounting
Auditing
Consulting
Business Tax
Personal Tax
Website Calculators
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Services
Whether you’re thinking about starting a new business, are in need of assistance on improving a current business or are approaching a structural transition or sale of a business, the advisors at Gardiner Thomsen are here to help. Our staff of professional CPAs has the knowledge and resources to help you achieve your organization’s goals.
We understand how difficult change can be, and that without proper guidance it can have a negative effect on your bottom line. Therefore, not only will we work closely with you to establish and improve the strategic direction of your organization, we will continue to be an active participant in the implementation process.
Through our accounting consulting services, we can help dramatically impact the success of your business by implementing systems that will make your organization more financially and operationally efficient.
Specialized consulting services we offer:
Peer group comparisons - Benchmarking
Strategic Planning Sessions
Agreed-Upon Procedures
Board Governance
Peer Group Comparisons - Benchmarking
Due to our vast professional network, we are able to gather more detailed information on your specific industry than most research firms. Recognizing that most privately held companies don’t share their financial information, and that Gardiner Thomsen specializes in serving niche markets, such as livestock and grain agribusiness, we are able to drill down most research to specifically suit your needs without compromising any of our clients’ proprietary information. Our involvement and dedication to those niche markets allows us access to the most specific information through association memberships and peer networking. With that network as a knowledge source, Gardiner Thomsen can more accurately benchmark your organization among your peers.
Strategic Planning Sessions
Whether you need a firm to observe, facilitate, present or actively participate in your annual board planning sessions or employee retreats, Gardiner Thomsen has the experience to do so. We will strive to provide valuable insight on your industry and interpret how trends in your company’s consumer demographics will affect your future financial statements. Our advisors will help you take a look at, and more thoroughly understand, the past, present and future financial position of your company and assist in developing long term plans to achieve your company’s goals.
Some examples of strategic planning may include:
Disaster recovery planning
Forecasting, projections and budget planning
Succession and merger planning
Agreed-Upon Procedures
Occasionally, organizations have the need to assure third parties of the accuracy or their financial statements or have compliance requirements that fall outside the normal scope of an audit. Without having to commit to a full audit engagement, Gardiner Thomsen can perform specialized agreed-upon procedures to meet those requirements.
Any agreed-upon procedures engagement is intended to provide your management, board members and audit committee with insight into key findings in your financial statements. Many of our clients depend on us to perform agreed-upon procedures to add outside credibility to information and reports they’ll be presenting to banks, credit unions, regulatory agencies and customers.
Some examples are:
Fraud Investigation
Internal Auditing Services
Merger or Acquisition Candidate Accounting Records
Accounting Record Reconciliation
Compliance with Covenants or Laws
Board Governance
Our service is to guide newly established governing boards to help them define their committees and the rules, responsibilities and procedures that are going to be required of those committees. Through this process we will help formalize your company’s business practices, policies and procedures as well as define conflicts of interest and additional audit requirements such as those imposed by certain association memberships.
Some examples of board governance services that we offer include:
Defining Responsibilities within an Audit Committee Charter
Drafting Ethics and Conflict of Interest Policies
Implementing Fraud Risk Assessment Tools |
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