Finance & Accounting Solutions

Our Expertise

Seamless service to keep your business running

Whether you’re a sole proprietor or a Fortune 500 company, you have unique finance and accounting needs. From daily accounting tasks to CFO-level duties, streamlining your finance and accounting operations can become a challenge and takes your focus away from core business activities. We’ll help you work through your finance and accounting challenges and determine how our experts can best support you — whether it’s through interim accounting assistance or a completely outsourced accounting solution.

Our finance and accounting specialists will become a seamless extension of key functional areas, providing the expertise to support your organization.

Expert finance and accounting support — where and when you need it

Our finance and accounting solutions include:

Accounting support

Do you need short-term support or interim accounting staff? We’ll help with financial planning and analysis, month-end close assistance, consolidation, complex reconciliations, financial reporting support, and budgeting. We can also help with interim staffing support, whether you need an accountant, analyst, controller, or CFO.

Financial transformation

We’ll help improve your accounting functions, financial close process, and financial reporting with a comprehensive view of people, processes, and technology.

Internal audit and controls

We’ll work with you to identify risks and analyze, develop, and implement internal controls.

Outsourced accounting

Managing finance and accounting internally isn’t practical for many organizations. Our team can take daily accounting functions off your plate and assume a CFO-level role, providing insight and guidance as your trusted advisor.

Policy and procedure development

We’ll help you develop policy and procedure documentation to meet requirements and ensure compliance. Our narratives and flowchart diagrams give you a reliable day-to-day reference.

Special projects

Our team can support you when unique needs arise, including acquisitions/divestures, GAAP/IFRS compliance, restructuring, financial planning and analysis, accounting system setup and implementation support, and special reporting needs.

Insights

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Finance professional discussing outsourced accounting services.

Outsourced accounting services: What every public sector organization needs to know

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Finance director considering outsourced accounting to address staffing shortages.

Case Studies

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Professionals discussing accounting solutions

July 11, 2022

Accounting department assessment

An accounting department assessment improves GAAP compliance, timeliness and accuracy of financial reporting, and the burden of the accounting team for a rapidly growing professional services company.

Case Study / 2 min read

May 01, 2019

Organization saves $200,000 and reduces risk with outsourced accounting

A thorough evaluation and revamped accounting process helps organization avoid crisis, save money, and reduce risk.

Case Study / 1 min read

May 31, 2017

Accounting and financial reporting transition

Market-leading food manufacturer overcomes critical challenges with internal controls, accounting processes, procedures, and financial reporting following large acquisition.

Case Study / 1 min read

Client Experience

Added value to your organization

Our solutions will help you switch your focus from arduous accounting tasks to a strategic, data-driven finance and accounting program. Not only will you have access to our experienced team members with certifications such as MBA, CPA, CMA, CIA, CFE, and CISA, but you’ll also benefit from the collective power of our firm.

“We’ll support and solve your current needs and challenges, but our team provides value beyond the day to day,” says Tom Risi, our finance and accounting solutions leader. “Our goal is to be your trusted advisor. We’ll leverage the expertise of entire firm to provide future-focused, strategic advice to improve your organization today, and tomorrow.”

Our clients say

With the concurrence of our private equity sponsor, the company brought in Plante Moran’s FSS team to help drive transformative changes in our financial processes to support growth and acquisitions. The Plante Moran FSS group brought best practices that allowed us to condense our monthly close time to 5 days (down from several weeks), and implement robust policies and more accurate processes for major accounting estimates. We also brought them in to help us during the post-acquisition phase of our most recent acquisition. Not only did they help integrate our newest vertical into our organization, they helped us claw-back a large portion of the purchase price through the net working capital adjustment once they discovered that the financial information reported by the Seller contained inaccuracies. They also discovered a direct violation of the purchase agreement which resulted in additional recoveries. We would absolutely use Plante Moran again for future deals.

Keith Marchiando

CFO, AP Exhaust Technologies, Inc.