Overview
Being good community stewards is one of the founding principles of Perry & Associates CPAs, and one that fills us with passion and purpose. When North Star Child Advocacy Center — a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting children and families affected by abuse — reached out to our team of experts, we were excited to provide assistance that would remove the burden of day-to-day accounting operations and allow them more time to focus on their important mission of child advocacy.
Solution
Our client accounting services team began managing internal accounting functions for the organization, implementing controls and providing other finance-related assistance. For the last five years, our ongoing services for the organization have included processing payroll, accounts payable, activity tracking, bank reconciliations, financials, board packets, grant budget and billing and more. We are also their team to call for other finance-related items that come up, which has included looking at new funding, assisting with audits, and purchasing a new building.
Results
With Perry & Associates CPAs on their side, North Star Child Advocacy Center has a trusted team of experienced professionals assisting them in a variety of accounting and finance functions, ensuring the organization’s time and resources are spent where they matter most. When our firm first started assisting with grants, we identified a budgeting/timing issue that would have cost the organization about $50,000, and were able to properly reallocate funding to keep most of the funds. Perry & Associates CPAs is proud to provide financial services that set the organization up for success and allow them to continue making their community a safer place for children.
“North Star has small staff running the busiest child advocacy center in West Virginia. When we brought Perry & Associates CPAs onboard, we had no checks and balances in place, no internal or external full-time accounting assistance and no one in-house who was proficient in accounting processes. Perry & Associates CPAs took the time to learn, in detail about us, implement needed mechanisms and teach us what we need to do to be free of any liability. We regained the financial trust of our Board of Directors and the foundations, businesses and people in the community who now support us emphatically. We worked with Perry & Associates CPAs to navigate the tedious grants that are vital to non-profits, helping us to find new grants and preventing us from losing tens of thousands of dollars of existing ones. Today, Perry & Associates CPAs is walking with us through our major property purchase and expansion of employees and services, helping us plan for North Star’s financial future. I not only found a competent and trustworthy business partner to assist North Star in growing to be the professional, fiscally responsible organization I wanted, I found friends and teammates.”
— Greg Collins
Executive Director
North Star Child Advocacy Center