Our Standard
The work is held to the standards of the people who will review it.
Federal funds live under rules. Our practice is calibrated to those rules — and to the expectations of the independent firms and federal reviewers who will examine the records.
Uniform Guidance, applied at the entry level
Every transaction is coded to its award, with allowability and allocation determinable from the record itself — the discipline 2 CFR Part 200 expects, kept daily rather than reconstructed at year-end.
Prepared to government auditing standards
Books are kept the way the GAO's auditing and internal-control standards expect an independent auditor to receive them: reconciled, supported, and traceable to source.
The close produces the audit file
A disciplined monthly close means the audit package exists as a by-product of normal work. The auditor receives the records — they never rebuild them.
Records that explain themselves
Our governing test: an independent reviewer should be able to verify any figure from the documentation alone, without the preparer in the room. Support for any expenditure is producible in minutes, not days.
Reporting that respects your council's time
Leadership reporting opens with the answer — cash position, compliance posture, and the decisions that need making — before any detail. No filler.
The line that protects the work
Independence is the standard we keep most carefully.
The party that prepares an organization's books should never audit them. We hold that line on principle: Northbridge Accounting & Consulting preps and maintains the records, and an independent licensed firm performs the audit.
The practice is led by a former KPMG auditor. Attestation and the Single Audit remain with independent licensed firms — never the same hand that prepares the books.