Public Companies

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Download the HA&W Public Companies Brochure (.pdf)	The procedures mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and an increasingly demanding cascade of new accounting pronouncements is prompting many CPA firms to discontinue auditing publicly held companies. This is a prime opportunity for HA&W's Public Company Team to demonstrate its expertise in working with publicly held companies to ensure their compliance with regulatory and financial reporting requirements. HA&W is a member of The Center for Public Company Audit Firms of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and is a Registered Accounting Firm of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

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Services

SEC Reporting and Compliance Services

Our services are designed for publicly traded companies, as well as for entrepreneurial companies that may be considering an IPO. These services include:

Annual and quarterly filing requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Initial public offerings and registration statements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1933
Reviewing annual reports to shareholders and other filings, providing comment to management regarding consistency with the audited financial statements
Advising companies on the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Communicating with the audit committee
Tax planning and compliance
Mergers and acquisitions
Investment Company Act of 1940 compliance
Private placement memorandums and offerings exempt from registration under Regulation D

Our experience covers complex accounting issues such as:

Revenue recognition
Business combinations
Stock-based compensation
Reverse mergers and recapitalizations
Restructuring
Impairment issues
Variable interest entities

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