Public Companies
In an era of volatile markets, financial restatements, and increased scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), high quality audits, internal controls that comply with Sarbanes-Oxley and sound financial advice are essential to your business growth. Our Public Companies practice deals with the SEC requirements and compliance issues. We assist you in seeing an overall financial and internal controls picture that’s clear, giving your financial figures the confidence and credibility they need. From start-ups to established public companies, we will work to ease your compliance burden and meet your reporting requirements.
For our non-audit clients, we can provide services related to tax planning, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance from management’s perspective, calculation of the tax provision and assist with reporting issues such as the FIN 48 analysis. Our SEC team can direct, manage, and support the compliance and reporting requirements of public companies. By providing clear and credible advice, our SEC team will help you make sound decisions.
Our Focus
We have intimate knowledge of accounting principles, and provide the breadth of technical knowledge and practical experience to effectively meet SEC filing requirements and deadlines. We ask questions that enable us to understand your business purpose, market conditions in your industry, and the drivers of value for your stakeholders.
Our Public Companies services include the following areas:
• SEC reporting
• Business combinations
• Off-balance sheet financing
• Internal controls
• Corporate disclosure and financial reporting
• Related-party transactions
• Consolidation
• Cash-flow reporting issues
• Merger & Acquisition experience
• Minority shareholder
• Fair value issues and reporting
• Restatements
Our resources include people with experience in setting accounting standards and the author of manuals to support CPAs in dealing with the SEC.
Our Professionals
Russell Andrews
"My first client in my career was a publicly held company. Right from the beginning I realized I enjoyed helping clients through the maze of technical requirements of being publicly owned.” Russ Andrews a founding Shareholder at SDK has worked with many companies through the initial public offering (IPO) process and the subsequent ongoing compliance needs. He has assisted several companies consider going "private" to remove the challenges of being public." Regardless of whether you are currently public, thinking of it, or looking to no longer be public, Russ has probably faced your situation and can help you through the process.
Wendy Harden
“I remember working with a client on their initial public offering. It was 5:00 a.m. and we were working with the attorneys for both the client and the underwriter to meet all the requirements and time deadlines. It was extremely challenging. When the IPO was completed it was so gratifying to see all the hard work finally pays off for them.” Wendy Harden has over 15 years experience and is an expert at planning, performing, and supervising financial audits for manufacturing and retail clients. She specializes in analyzing internally prepared financial statements in relation to industry, budget and historical performance.