Single Audit (OMB A-133)
Helping Clients Get Audit-Ready: How Advisory Team Supports Auditors
AAFCPAs’ Outsourced Accounting & Fractional CFO Practice Helps Make Audits Smoother and More Efficient As year-end approaches, many finance teams and their external auditors navigate the season’s challenges with a shared goal: ensuring financials are audit ready. Disorganized records, such as missing invoices and agreements, or unreconciled general ledgers can add unnecessary complexity to this […]
OMB Releases Uniform Guidance Revisions
AAFCPAs would like to make clients aware that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released updates to its Uniform Guidance in April 2024. Updates affect non-federal entities that receive Federal awards. The OMB is responsible for the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (Uniform Guidance), which oversees government-wide policies […]
FASB Approves New Guidance on Certain Crypto Assets
AAFCPAs would like to make clients aware that in December 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standard Update (ASU) 2023-08, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other – Crypto Assets (Subtopic 350-60): Accounting for and Disclosure of Crypto Assets. Note: the amendments in ASU 2023-08 require that an entity measure “in-scope” crypto assets (as […]
Will Paycheck Protection Program Loans Be Subject to Uniform Guidance for Nonprofit Organizations?
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) includes many provisions that are applicable to nonprofit organizations. One of the provisions is the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loans which provides 100% Federally guaranteed loans to covered entities who meet certain criteria. A consideration for nonprofit organizations is whether the loans will be subject […]
2019 UFR Update: AAFCPAs Outlines Significant Changes
The Operational Services Division (OSD) of the Executive Office for Administration and Finance just released its FY 2019 UFR Audit and Preparation Manual, FY 2019 UFR Auditor’s Compliance Supplement, and FY 2019 Excel UFR Templates. The FY 2019 Manual is effective July 1, 2018 for the UFRs to be filed for FY 2019. Visit Mass.gov […]
OSD Provides Guidance for MA UFR Filers on Reimbursement of Nonprofit Transportation Tax
AAFCPAs would like to make clients who file a Massachusetts UFR aware that we sought and received guidance from the Massachusetts Operational Services Division (OSD) regarding how unrelated business income tax (UBIT) associated with the provision of transportation benefits to employees would need to be treated for UFR reporting purposes. In response, OSD clarified that […]
Guidance on How UG Procurement Standards Affect Charter Schools
AAFCPAs’ John Buckley, CPA, CGMA discussed challenges and opportunities facing Charter Schools while attending and presenting at this year’s National Charter School’s Conference in Austin, TX. In conversations, John learned that many schools have yet to formally update their procurement policies to reflect the Uniform Guidance (UG) procurement standards. As a reminder, the grace period for non-federal entities […]
OMB Clarifies Applicability Date for Micro-Purchase and Simplified Acquisition Thresholds Increase
The Uniform Guidance (UG) was issued in 2013 by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and effective on December 26, 2014 for all nonprofit entities. OMB granted a grace period of three full fiscal years for the implementation of the UG procurement standard. Nonprofit entities with a June 30th fiscal year end must […]
OMB Further Extends the Effective Date for the Procurement Standards of the Uniform Guidance
AAFCPAs would like to make clients aware that on May 17, 2017, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a correcting amendment extending the effective/applicability date of the procurement standards under the Uniform Guidance (UG). The procurement standards were one of the areas of significant change under the UG, and nonprofits receiving federal […]