ACUA and Baker Tilly

Baker Tilly’s Higher Education and Research Institutions practice serves colleges and universities from across the country. We offer the broad resources of a full-service accounting and advisory firm, blending deep industry insight with sound business advice and providing consulting, risk advisory, assurance, and tax services for leading institutions. We collaborate with management, internal audit functions, boards, and audit committees to address areas of strategic importance. We deliver practical, customized solutions to our clients while keeping the unique culture of higher education and research institutions in mind.

Enabling Internal Audit to tackle complex challenges
 

• Our recent projects include helping institutions to (see reverse side for additional detail):
• Assess information privacy controls to strengthen safeguards over personally identifiable information
• Examine endowment and restricted fund activity to assess compliance with donor restrictions and regulations
• Conduct internal investigations in response to allegations of fraudulent activity
• Audit construction project costs to identify significant cost savings
• Assess sponsored research infrastructures and develop action plans to support strategic objectives
• Perform quality assessments of the internal audit function
• Identify opportunities for cost optimization by performing operational efficiency reviews
• Expand the influence and the value of internal audit
• Support compliance risk assessments

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