AMS Consulting consists of experienced senior professionals with an average of 25 years of accounting and financial management experience in public and private companies.
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While the SEC has mandated conversion to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) by 2015, those companies competing globally will require conversion to IFRS sooner. AMS has been assisting companies with their IFRS conversions since 2006. AMS professionals are well versed in GAAP and IFRS accounting and will help guide you through the conversion process. [return to top]
AMS has worked closely with clients to diagnose problems, effect results, and turn businesses around. When necessary, AMS professionals have worked through the difficult process of bankruptcy and business wind down, maintaining operations, negotiating payment terms, and managing cash flows. [return to top]
As market leaders supporting technical transactions, AMS professionals have provided support for both specific asset and transaction valuation. Our support has been the basis used by external experts to value options and stock transactions, asset sales and disposals, and entity carve outs. [return to top]
Preparing SEC documents never ceases. Whether writing MD&A, researching technical issues, or answering SEC questions, AMS professionals focus is on developing current, accurate information. AMS has a team of SEC experts to work with every clients SEC needs. [return to top]
AMS consulting helps clients prepare for their S-1 filings and IPO support. In addition to pulling together quarterly histories and writing MD&A, our expert team knows how to present the information to the SEC while answering key questions. [return to top]
AMS provides pre-M&Asupport both on the acquirer and aquiree side of the transaction. AMS specialists provide due diligence support, including conducting reviews of high risk accounts (stock options, software revenue recognition), preparing financial statements, and evaluating tax implications. Following the transaction, AMS assists by harmonizing charts of accounts, consolidating financial statements, developing pro-forma budgets, preparing management and SEC reports, and reviewing, developing, and implementing policies and procedures. [return to top]
With SOX compliance largely in place, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board continues to issue and refine directives that affect many middle market companies. AMS provides accounting and financial support to assess risk, design and test controls, develop documentation, and support quarterly and annual assessments and attestations. [return to top]
AMS treasury specialists provide international treasury support, including designing treasury operations. Treasury support includes cash and interest rate management, and bank account management expertise, foreign exchange exposure management, working capital controls, tax accounting, treasury operations accounting, cash flow modeling, and related services. [return to top]
AMS Consulting professionals are the go-to experts for specialty GAAP projects and new FASB implementations. Our AMS team includes content experts in 116, 117, 123R, 97-2, 141, and 142, as well as other technical issues that an external auditor cannot address due to independence impairment. [return to top]
Complying with the requirements of SAS 115 can be done cost effectively, without developing a full-fledged internal audit department. AMS assists by providing consultants to assess risk and related internal controls, remediate issues as needed, and define key processes behind material financial statement balances. [return to top]
The Federal government has specific requirements for compliance with grants from government agencies and the Department of Defense. These requirements are complex and dictate specialized expertise, which AMS consultants possess. Utilizing AMS consultants will speed the audit process, and ensure that the audit goes smoothly with no disruption to the business. It also contributes to your ability to win follow-on grants, as you will have a track record of compliance for the government. [return to top]
AMS works with an organization’s tax attorney or accountant, providing a cost effective team for this critical step of securing tax exempt status. AMS has experience with all aspects of Form 1023 filing, including required disclosures and preparation of projections that are integral to proper completion of the filing. [return to top]
Investment accounting and programs for split-interest charitable gifts require specialized knowledge. AMS consultants can coordinate and implement programs and procedures tailored to provide relevant and accurate management information. [return to top]
AMS provides a variety of services to the real estate development industry. Our professionals can assist with budgeting, cash flow analysis, accounting for real estate transactions, and financial reporting. We work closely with the finance team and real estate project managers to develop effective strategies for the flow of information within the organization, a critical element for cost containment. We assist with the preparation for cost certification audits as well as routine annual audits. AMS works with management to provide meaningful financial reporting both within an organization, as well as to the external stakeholders, public, and private financing sources. [return to top]
Health care providers need effective processes to capture and define services provided. Professionals from AMS’s health care practice examine and catalogue manual and automated charge capture methodologies. Quantifiable opportunities to improve net patient service revenue are identified and implemented in concert with provider management. [return to top]
AMS health care specialists examine payer contracts and assess a provider’s performance and compliance within stated contractual parameters. The AMS team evaluates processes related to payer contracts and recommends improvements to achieve optimal reimbursement, reporting, and compliance. [return to top]
AMS works with many charter schools and offers a variety of services depending on the specific needs of a school. AMS services include: Setting up a school’s accounting system, establishing and implementing the school’s accounting policies, procedures, and controls, training the school’s staff, and providing, on a monthly basis, financial reports for school management and its board of trustees, and preparing for the school’s annual audit. [return to top]
AMS professionals understand that grant billing and reporting are not only the keys to adequate cash flow for always strapped non-profits they also set the tone for the relationship with the grantor.[return to top]
