[Cadre-politics] FYI CSL audit status

[Dan MacNeil]

 > At the risk of toe stepping, my work
 > prompts me to work with and collaborate
 > with CPA's all day.

I love it when people step on toes like this.

Please do it some more.

 > Say the word and I can ask any one of them
 > and........will ask them to donate the work.

Word!

While I am tempted to go straight for the tattooed guy. I leave the 
selection of the first askee in your capable toes.

If there is more pro-bono work that we can absorb, we might consider our 
friends at http://www.jerichoroadproject.org/ (CC'd)

Ideally, we'd like to get started by late november, but since we don't 
have a specific grant asking for a audited financial statement in the 
tube...

kristina_ickes at comcast.net wrote:
> At the risk of toe stepping, my work prompts me to work with and collaborate with CPA's all day. 
> Here are a select few who will likely fit the bill:
> 
> Chuck Costa - Lowell - Middlesex Street - is quite capable and likely can do either full or review for less and is familiar with NPO audits.  
> 
> His former partner, Debra Dobbins has relocated to Nashua and is also familiar with NPOs and quite reputable. 
> 
> Ed Baroody - Manchester NH is  good &  has a boatload of tattoos making him a cool auditor alternative to the blue suit and tie options. 
> 
> Trish Boucher, Concord NH is experienced with Non profits......though admittedly a bit distant geographically.  
> 
> Andrew Lane, Derry NH does a lot of work for one of my clients. I respect him. 
> 
> Drew Landry is also excellent - former tax auditor for the US Gov and friend of the NH charitable Foundation - does  a lot of NPO work for the foundation clients. He is, like Dan, capable and humble. 
> 
> Say the word and I can ask any one of them and........will ask them to donate the work. 
> 
> Note:  I have an opinion, professionally developed as a result of a client's experience, that prompts me to raise concern about St Armand in Dracut. The situation may be an anomoly- but I would be remiss to not note a concern. 
> 
> K
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> From: Dan MacNeil <dan at thecsl.org> 
> 
>> Audit. 
>>
>> Partly because I'm a glutton for punishment, partly because the pesky 
>> grant applications ask for an "audited financial statement", I've been 
>> asking around for prices on Audits. 
>>
>> An accountant acquaintance from http://lowellhabitat.org/ tells me he's 
>> asked around and: 
>>
>> 1) $5000 for an audit 
>> 2) $1500 for a compilation/review 
>>
>> For an organization of $100,000, the former would be ok. 
>>
>> Ironicly, I'll need to balance the checkbook to see if the later is 
>> mathamatically within our reach. (It probably is). 
>>
>> If we have the cash, we will probably await the counsel of the board in 
>> the 11/15 meeting. to know if a document with an accounting firm's 
>> stationary is of higher priority than 12 hours of battery backup, a 
>> trip to http://YAPC.org, a cash reserve or case of new bath salts for 
>> the Lab Jacuzzi. 
>>
>> Jericho Road is looking to recruit accounting volunteers and our board 
>> nominating committee guided by our esteemed vice president has a line of 
>> a finance professor who might serve on our board. 
>>
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