Associations

Excellent associations are led by people who desire to operate with genuine integrity.  They want to do the right things for the right reasons, and they believe in real accountability.   Association leaders have come to BMWL for audit and assurance services because of our strong reputation for helping them make sure the financial bases are covered.  They often come to us after working with another accounting firm, and they share with us that they were concerned that their previous firm was not bringing matters to their attention that needed to be addressed.  After asking around among leaders in the association community, they learned that BMWL is well known for just that – taking a comprehensive and highly professional approach to providing audit and assurance service that includes communicating important matters to our clients on a proactive and consistent basis.

As an example, a large and very well-known international professional association had concerns about certain aspects of its compliance and financial reporting.  The association engaged BMWL to assist in identifying and addressing the issues and to audit the financial statements.  One of the “Big Four” accounting firms had previously provided services for the association.  Our team identified significant compliance issues requiring attention and proactively assisted the association in addressing those issues. We assist associations in areas such as budgeting; internal controls; board governance matters; risk management; corporate structure analysis; unrelated business income issues; federal, state, and local tax compliance; representation before tax authorities, and much more.