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Technical Accounting Consulting Services

When you face a complex, non-routine accounting question, get the expertise you need to make the right call.
Technical Accounting Consulting Services
Our Approach

What Is Technical Accounting Consulting?

Technical accounting consulting helps you evaluate complex accounting issues and key business decisions that fall outside your team’s day-to-day accounting activities.

How We Work

A Clear Approach to Technical Accounting

Technical expertise is only part of what you need when an accounting issue falls outside the norm. We translate complicated rules, help you understand your options and find a path forward.

Here’s what that looks like:

Real Business Context

Real Business Context

Get guidance that fits how your business runs, not generic textbook advice

Practical Guidance

Practical Guidance

Walk away with journal entries and policies you can use, not just memos explaining rules

Audit-Ready Support

Audit-Ready Support

Go into reviews with clearly documented accounting positions that are ready for auditor scrutiny

Direct Access to Experts

Direct Access to Experts

Work directly with technical accounting specialists throughout your project

Your Advantages

Technical Accounting Consulting Benefits

A transaction, audit or reporting requirement can have big implications across your business. Technical accounting consultants help you understand the implications and make informed decisions. We help you:

  • Get clear answers to tough accounting questions
  • Stay compliant with GAAP and reporting requirements, even on unusual transactions
  • Move through audits, financings, M&A and IPOs with fewer last-minute issues
  • Build stronger accounting positions for smoother auditor discussions
  • Put accounting policies in place your team can realistically maintain

Transaction Accounting

When you buy, sell or raise capital, your accounting has to hold up to scrutiny. We help you understand the reporting implications and handle the technical accounting behind your transactions.

  • Spin-offs and carveouts
  • Mergers & acquisitions
  • Consolidations and divestitures
  • Debt financings and restructurings
  • Equity financings and restructurings

Financial Reporting & Compliance

If you’re going public, filing with the SEC or converting accounting frameworks, you’ll face new and more complex reporting requirements. We help you meet those requirements and prepare accurate, timely financial reporting.

Audit Readiness & Accounting Advisory

A well-prepared audit starts with clear accounting positions and supporting documentation. We help you address technical accounting issues early so your team is prepared for auditor review.

  • First-time audit support
  • Audit planning and preparation
  • Technical accounting memoranda
  • Accounting policy development
  • Ongoing advisory support

Accounting Standards Support

New and complex accounting standards can be difficult to interpret. We help you understand what they mean for your business and how to apply them correctly and consistently.

Consultant Checklist

How to Choose a Technical Accounting Consultant

Technical accounting consultants should offer more than knowledge of accounting standards. Look for specific experience, sound guidance and an approach that works well with your team and auditors. Use these questions to evaluate your options:

  • Relevant Technical Experience: Have they handled your specific transaction or accounting standard, not just general accounting issues?
  • Upfront Guidance: Can they help you evaluate accounting options before key decisions are made?
  • Expert Involvement: Will the technical accounting specialists who scope the work stay involved throughout the engagement?
  • Auditor Collaboration: How do they approach working with your external auditors?
  • Independence: Are they independent of your audit firm, avoiding potential self-review conflicts?
  • Accounting & Regulatory Knowledge: How do they stay current on changes to GAAP and SEC reporting requirements?

Our Expertise

Why Armanino for Technical Accounting Consulting Services

Our team handles hundreds of technical accounting and related projects each year, bringing experience as CFOs, CAOs and controllers along with Big Four, audit, tax and industry expertise. Many of our specialists have been in the roles our clients hold today, so they understand both the technical requirements and the real-world pressures behind key accounting decisions.

Project-based engagements average two to four weeks, while ongoing support can scale with your needs. We work closely with management, auditors, legal counsel and other advisors to evaluate options, develop well-supported accounting positions and keep transactions and reporting timelines on track.

Experts

Partner
location
Colorado and Mountain West
phone
720-798-4827
Partner
location
Texas and Southwest
phone
512-610-9114
Director, CFO Advisory
location
Pacific Northwest
phone
425-708-8102
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Take the Guesswork Out of Technical Accounting

Facing a major transaction, a first audit or a new standard? Get a free 30-minute consultation with one of our technical accounting experts.