Non-Profit Organizations
Background Denburg & Low, PA, is a certified public accounting firm specialized in providing auditing, tax and consulting services for non-profit organizations. Non-profits are one of the major industry specializations for us. We have offices in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland. Our staff size is large enough to meet your needs, yet small enough to deliver the responsive service you expect. We offer your organization the best of two worlds - the experience and expertise of a regional firm combined with the personalized attention and focus of a dedicated local firm.We have grown into a reputable regional firm with a base of non-profit clients managed by sophisticated business people who, in addition to recurring audit and tax services, require a technically oriented CPA firm that can meet their specialized needs. These include operational audits, computer systems analysis, advanced tax and accounting research, and business and strategic planning.
Representative Clients
The following is a representative list of clients for whom we provide audit, accounting, consulting or tax related services:
Catholic War Veterans of the United States of America, Inc.
Benefits of Selecting Our Firm
We offer the following points for your consideration:
We
are highly specialized and experienced in providing
non-profit audit services.
You
will receive close, personalized service.
Our
billing rates are significantly less than a large CPA
firm.
We
have a reputation of providing timely service.
We
staff our non-profit audits with experienced, senior
level professionals who are familiar with non-profit
accounting systems and specialized general
ledger/accounting software programs. We do not train
inexperienced staff on our audit engagements. Training
new, inexperienced auditors each year is a common
industry-wide practice and a large hidden cost to an
audit client.
We
are OMB Circular A-133 Qualified
We
are familiar with your specialized accounting issues and
needs.
Their brief biographical sketches are as follows:
Jay R. Defibaugh has been involved in non-profit accounting and tax issues from the beginning of his public accounting career twenty-five years ago. His experience includes audit and tax services to public charities, private foundations, social welfare organizations, veterans groups and trade associations. His clients have been involved in local, national and international issues ranging from training severely handicapped individuals to studying human rights issues and economic and democratic concerns in a variety of foreign countries. He has faced many complex situations including joint-cost allocations, systems requirements for many of the organizations serviced, consolidation issues and the special requirements surrounding federally funded programs.Robert J. Low, Jr., has long experience with non-profit organizations as an advisor and an implementer. As the Director of Finance for the Society for Information Science he has had experience with the day to day concerns associated with running a large non-profit organization as well as having responsibility for their outside reporting needs. Since that time he has had nineteen years public accounting experience with public charities, private foundations, social welfare organizations and trade associations. Mr. Low has served on the boards of several non-profit organizations including the D.C. Preservation League and the L’Enfant Trust.
Niel B. Jefferson’s sixteen years of experience dealing with everything from management reporting systems, allocation methodology for functional reporting, joint cost allocations, tax compliance and exempt status qualifications gives him a broad base to draw from in analyzing non-profit issues and providing solutions. His experience also covers a wide variety of organizations that include public charities, social welfare organizations and trade associations.
