Comprehensive and efficient audit support
Each year brings new regulations and increased complexity in meeting compliance requirements.
Timely, accurate education audits are critical to helping your institution satisfy regulators. Let Wipfli help you achieve them with audit services for education, including financial statement audits and uniform guidance.
Why Wipfli?
Wipfli has extensive experience helping institutions meet their audit needs with comprehensive services that deliver more than just reports.
Our team understands the regulatory environment, working with regulators and your staff to help you stay ahead of critical changes. And we go beyond compliance, helping empower your staff to improve outcomes by providing them with promising practices and identifying opportunities across your institution.
How we help you
Wipfli’s audit procedures focus on the critical issues and regulatory concerns unique to education. We take a customized, risk-based approach and apply our deep audit experience and financial know-how to provide a timely and resource-efficient audit.
As transparency and accountability for federal funds become more critical, Wipfli can help you go beyond financial statement audits with our deep education sector experience. Our team works closely with your staff to deliver a smooth single audit or program-specific audit process.
Wipfli’s internal controls study and fraud risk assessment services can help you strengthen internal controls at your institution. We review your processes to identify your potential fraud risk and give practical recommendations for improvement.
Our team
Anthony B. Gerharz, Jr. , CPA
Anthony Gerharz is a manager in Wipfli LLP’s audit and accounting practice. Having focused on the nonprofit and government industry for more than eight years, he has extensive experience with financial and compliance audits of local governments and nonprofit organizations and is also knowledgeable about regulatory reporting for Montana municipalities, special districts, and school districts.
Kimberly Dare, CPA, CFE, CGMA
Kimberly Dare provides high-quality auditing and consulting services to local governments and nonprofit organizations. She is a regional leader within Wipfli LLP’s nonprofit and government practice. Kimberly has vast audit and consulting experience in a wide range of industries, with specialized knowledge relating to governmental and nonprofit organizations. In addition to her auditing experience, she has performed a number of forensic accounting engagements.
Rachel J. Most, CPA
Rachel Most is a partner in Wipfli’s audit and accounting practice and the leader of the Philadelphia region’s nonprofit practice. She has more than 19 years of public accounting experience. She has extensive experience in coordinating and managing client attest engagements, including audits, reviews and agreed-upon procedures.
Kurt A. Peterson, CPA, CFE
Kurt Peterson oversees audit engagements and client relationships, as well as works with clients to maintain compliance with laws and regulations. He leverages his knowledge and skill as a Certified Fraud Examiner to provide additional value on audit engagements. Kurt brings a practical approach to audit engagements and prides himself on providing reasonable solutions while adhering to generally accepted accounting principles.
Scott Duenser, CPA
Scott Duenser is a partner and certified public accountant with more than 25 years of experience who works with governmental and not-for-profit clients to improve financial reporting and internal controls. Scott provides guidance to clients regarding the implementation of new accounting standards and develops strategies to streamline processes and internal controls.
