Certified Public Accountant Firm Services

The Vendor is required to provide certified public accountant firms with experience in local government audits in state to perform certain pre-auditing and accounting services.
- Pre-audit services
• Prepare account reconciliations
• Calculate allowance for doubtful accounts
• Analysis of personal property
• Calculate unbilled water revenue
• Compensated absences
• Assist with the implementation of GASB 103
• Assist in the preparation of the ACFR, to include statistical and supplemental information
• Prepare year-end adjusting journal entries
• Assist with input of subscription-based information and technology asset and lease information into debt-books, analyze the debt-book entries and notes, and assist in preparing journal entries
• Other assistance to prepare for the annual audit to be agreed upon during engagement planning.
- Accounting services
• Performs and approves a variety of accounting activities, including the recording of transactions in the city's general ledgers in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
• Monitors and reconciles cash balances in all city funds and performs all electronic transfers and transactions with banking institutions
• Bank reconciliations
• Reconciles all credit card activity for all city-wide revenue applications, including web transactions
• Prepare various invoices
• Monitors monthly summaries from accounts receivable functions, including utility and tax billing, monthly billing of city rental property, and various balance sheet account reconciliations
• Ensures compliance with accounting, disbursement, and reporting requirements of federal and state grants
• Prepare monthly financial reports
• Records and reconciles human service department transactions and issues fund financial statements
• Assists in tracking and recording city fixed assets.