A quality benefit plan audit will demonstrate to plan participants and regulators that your investments, reporting and disclosure, as well as fiduciary provisions and workers’ benefit rights are executed properly and in full compliance. Smith + Howard delivers benefit plan audits on time, at low fees and with less inconvenience to your team.
Nationally accredited specialists in the area of employee benefit plans are instrumental as you seek to ensure that your business navigates its employee benefit plan offering while staying in linen with evolving benefit plan laws. At Smith + Howard, our AICPA accredited professionals enjoy the nuances of, and specialize in benefit plan audits.
You can count on us to stay current with the multitude of regulatory and compliance developments related to ERISA, to communicate those developments timely, and walk beside you as you implement them.
We perform your benefit plan audit efficiently, deliver on time and provide confidence for you and your participants that your plan is compliance with governing laws and regulations. All at a reasonable cost.
Smith + Howard is a full-service accounting firm with a demonstrated track record of excellence providing benefit plan audit services. Our team is led by accomplished leaders driven by a deep understanding of benefit plan audits, a passion for service, a commitment to excellence, and unwavering integrity.
At Smith + Howard, our EBP team is composed of the most skilled and knowledgeable professionals in the industry. We work closely with businesses across the country, delivering expert guidance and a genuine commitment to the success of their missions.
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With clients in all 50 states and many with operations around the world, Smith + Howard brings an extraordinary level of expertise and knowledge that helps your business reach the next level.
Our benefit plan audit team specializes in working with businesses like yours to efficiently drive the audit process, providing value in both deliverables and price. All with our promise of personal, responsive client service. This is part of what repeatedly lands us as a Top 20 Employee Benefit and Compensation Company (Atlanta Business Chronicle), client-nominated Forbes Top Accounting and Tax Firm list and the INSIDE Public Accounting National Best of the Best list.
We invite you to contact us to learn how we can make your benefit plan audit move valuable, more cost efficient and painless.
As an Atlanta Top 20 Employee Benefit and Compensation Company*, Smith + Howard brings a dedicated and educated team of employee benefit plan audit specialists to your business to identify compliance strengths and gaps and help you administer the plan in a way that achieves the goals of your business while serving your employees well in the plan administration. We audit full and limited scope 401(k) plans, 401(a) Welfare Benefit Compensation Plans, limited scope 403(b) plans, Defined Benefit Plans, ESOPs, Health and Welfare plans and Multiple Employer Plan (MEP) Retirement Plans. In addition to building our knowledge of ERISA, we’re deeply engaged in the EBP professional community including membership in the AICPA’s Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center, Women in Pensions, governing the conduct of plan managers, investment of plan assets, reporting and disclosure of plan information, enforcement of the fiduciary provisions of the law, and workers’ benefit rights. Investments, reporting and disclosure, as well as fiduciary provisions and workers’ benefit rights are all in compliance. Our reputation when measured against the U.S. Department of Labor definition of qualified benefit plan audit firms more than proves our qualifications in this important area of assurance.
Whether it’s a quick call, consultation, or jumping right into a benefit plan audit, our talented team professionals are ready to help solve your business goals. So drop us a line today and let’s get to work!
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