Accounting, Audit, Tax, and Advisory for Special Education Schools

Helping your special education school navigate funding, compliance, and operational challenges.

AAFCPAs delivers in-depth financial expertise, strategic guidance, and compliance solutions to special education schools, including Chapter 766 schools. We understand that your mission extends well beyond the classroom. In addition to delivering exceptional educational outcomes, many of AAFCPAs clients are expanding residential programs to support young adults aging out of traditional school settings, while also exploring meaningful day opportunities that enrich the lives of adult residents—including commercial ventures that create inclusive employment pathways. These evolving responsibilities bring added financial and operational complexity. We help you navigate challenges such as managing tuition, government contracts, and financial aid, and meeting complex regulatory requirements. Our support empowers business office leaders to enhance financial stability, manage growth, reduce operating costs, and streamline operations, ensuring your team may focus on what matters most.

We partner with private special education schools of all sizes to uphold fiduciary responsibilities tied to critical funding sources, ensuring transparency, accountability, and long-term financial health.

Compliance

Special Education Schools operate in a highly regulated environment where compliance and optimizing reimbursements is critical to your success. Our team delivers meticulous financial statement audits and employee benefit plan audits that provide clarity, accuracy, and confidence for your stakeholders. Whether you’re expanding residential programs—including specific homes for young adults “turning 22″—enhancing meaningful day opportunities, establishing non-tuition revenue streams, or engaging in capital campaigns, we help ensure you remain compliant with all appropriate regulations, including adherence to federal and state laws, providing accurate reporting, maintaining financial accountability, conducting evaluations and assessments, and offering professional development.

We also provide specialized support to maximize financial opportunities and resources, including debt and tax credits-based financing for facilities and growth initiatives. If you need additional support, our outsourced accounting and fractional CFO solutions deliver experienced leadership to help you manage ongoing transactional accounting, reporting, state filings, and compliance requirements with ease. With AAFCPAs, you can trust that your financial foundation is strong, transparent, and positioned to support your mission.

Strategic Decision-Making

At AAFCPAs, we recognize that special education leaders face complex decisions that impact your students, parents, staff, and communities. Our strategic decision-making solutions provide the clarity and insights you need to make confident, forward-thinking decisions that shape a sustainable future. With robust data analytics and visualization, we transform financial and operational data into actionable intelligence, helping you identify opportunities to optimize performance and resources while ensuring compliance with funder requirements. Our financial forecasts and modeling enable long-term planning that aligns budgets with your mission-driven goals and supports innovative programming—such as exploring meaningful day opportunities for adult residents and launching commercial ventures that create inclusive employment pathways. These strategies help maintain financial accountability while expanding the positive impact of your programs.

If your organization is exploring mergers, collaborations, or shared services, AAFCPAs delivers proven guidance to evaluate opportunities, mitigate risk, and maximize the benefit for your stakeholders. From investment management strategies that strengthen reserves to board and governance consulting that enhances leadership effectiveness, our solutions empower you to make confident, forward-thinking decisions in an ever-changing education landscape.

Operational Efficiency & Digital Transformation

CFOs are tasked with running lean, efficient operations while meeting rigorous accountability standards. Our outsourced accounting and fractional CFO solutions provide the expertise and support private special education schools need to manage day-to-day finances, improve reporting accuracy, and maintain compliance—without overextending internal resources. Whether you require interim or fractional leadership or ongoing transactional support, we ensure your financial operations are reliable, transparent, and aligned with your mission.

We also help you streamline workflows and reduce manual tasks through business process assessments and robotic process automation (RPA). By evaluating your systems and processes, we identify opportunities to improve efficiency, eliminate bottlenecks, and refocus your team on high-value initiatives. If it’s time to enhance your technology, our specialists guide you through system selection and implementation, ensuring you adopt solutions that meet your needs and integrate seamlessly with your operations.

Risk Management

Special education schools face unique data and IT security risks that can impact your operations and reputation. Our IT Risk Advisory solutions provide the protection you need to safeguard sensitive student records, health information, IEPs, behavioral data, communication records, and financial data from ever-evolving threats. We help you assess vulnerabilities, implement robust defenses, and develop a proactive approach to cybersecurity. In addition, our business continuity planning ensures that your operations can withstand unexpected disruptions, keeping your schools running smoothly even in the face of emergencies or unforeseen events.

We also focus on strengthening your internal controls to ensure compliance with financial regulations. Our internal controls assessments provide a detailed review of your current processes and systems to identify gaps and recommend improvements. Lastly, we offer board and governance consulting to help you build strong, effective leadership and decision-making frameworks that mitigate risk and guide your organization toward long-term success.