The Audit & Assurance Services Group is comprised of seasoned professionals with special sensitivity to accuracy in financial reporting and quality control. This technically-proficient team is keenly aware of its responsibility to both clients and third party users of financial statements, and their critical role in the decision making process.

Members of the service group serve privately held companies, not-for-profit organizations and unions, as well as governmental entities, the affordable housing sector and healthcare providers. They are proficient in audits of employee benefit plans. Services include:

• Financial Accounting & Auditing
• Performance & Compliance Audits
• Internal Control Reviews & Audits
• Tax Credit Compliance & Audits
• Asset Based Loan Support
• Forensic Accounting
• Due Diligence Analyses

Each engagement is held to the highest professional standards and subject to the most stringent tests of quality control. In accordance with the firm's Quality Control Systems & Procedures, engagements undergo several stages of review – first by a manager and then by the partner-in-charge - to ensure compliance with both the firm's and the American Institute of CPA's standards.

Planning, efficiency and open communication define the service team's approach to achieving the objectives of an audit, which are:

• Comply with all requirements of professional standards and provide assurance that the financial statements or other financial information can be relied upon by its users to make sound business decisions
• Advance management's understanding of financial statements so they may be used for both compliance and as a tool to help drive the organization forward
• Recommend potential improvements in business practices, internal controls and financial reporting

This commitment to outstanding service distinguishes the Audit & Assurance Services Group from its competition. The technical superiority of its members is reflected in its service to other CPA firms, advising them on technical audit issues and conducting Peer Reviews of their internal controls to ensure compliance with the American Institute of CPAs' Statements on Quality Control Standards.

Heffler, Radetich & Saitta has been subject to Peer Reviews, and has received unqualified opinions, the top rating possible, since the program began.