| We offer traditional audit
services, which represent a significant part of the firm's
revenues. Porter & Company has gone through six AICPA
peer reviews, and has received an unmodified report on
each review. Gary Porter, CPA, owner of the firm, is the
creator and co-author of two PPC guides, and is a nationally
recognized expert with more than 200 technical articles
to his credit.
Our audits of homeowners associations are designed
to meet the needs of our clients in complying with bylaws
or state statutes. Because we are so familiar with associations,
we can often provide additional benefits to our clients
as part of the audit process.
Our unique capability in today's ever-increasing electronic
environment is the ability to audit through the computer.
We use a computer "utility" program that allows
us to access and use your computer transactions, without
ever disturbing any of the underlying data. With our
program, we can then manipulate the data in any manner
we desire. At times, this allows us to generate information
that you are unable to retrieve from your own system.
This makes us more efficient in our audit procedures,
as we can test vast amounts of data in a relatively
brief period of time.
Our audit "workpapers" are also unique. We
were one of the first firms to move to a completely
electronic set of audit workpapers. Our automated audit
workpaper program is built on a MS Windows platform
using MS Word and MS Excel and scanned images to create
all workpapers, ensuring compatibility and easy transferability
of information. Again, because we perform all procedures
on the computer, we have become extremely efficient.
Our staff is very stable, which means you get the same
auditors back year after year. You won't be stuck having
to "break in" and "train" new staff
members form the CPA firm every year. It is also our
philosophy to have the owner of the firm review every
audit. And for the larger engagements, he also participates
in the audit field work. By stripping away the administrative
layers in the CPA firm, we become more efficient. This
means you are getting the direct benefit of very experienced
auditors.
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