OUR SERVICES
As a Full-Service Provider, We're Ready to Handle Your Needs
FINANCIAL REPORTING & ACCOUNTING SUPPORT SERVICES
At Bert Smith & Co, we provide a variety of accounting services, serving both public and private sector organizations.
INTERNAL CONTROLS/A-123
Bert Smith’s experience in complying with OMB Circular A-123 and helping Federal Government organizations improve internal controls goes beyond our clients and cases.
Financial & Performance Audit Services
The Bert Smith Audit Group has substantial experience in auditing public sector clients.
Advisory Services
The process of evaluating businesses, projects, and budgets, and then reporting those findings.
Financial Services
At Bert Smith, our capabilities to serve our clients go well beyond assisting with IRS and state filings.
Program Management
Bert Smith's management consultation services cover a broad range of functional program areas and deal with a number of challenges.
Government Entities
For decades, Bert Smith & Co. has provided cost-effective, timely and accurate services to meet the needs of federal, state and local governments.
Healthcare Organizations
For more than 50 years, Bert Smith & Co. has met the needs of such healthcare entities as hospitals, nursing homes, individual and group physicians, community health facilities and other providers.
Non-Profit Organizations
Leaders of not-for-profit entities already know that many of the same business principles practiced in the corporate world apply equally to their organizations.
Educational Institutions
While their chief business is the education of students, they must also ensure that a wide range of financial & accounting processes & controls are in place to meet the requirements of their many constituencies.
Retirement Systems
Many organizations face rapidly-evolving audit and reporting requirements related to their retirement, defined benefit pension and deferred compensation plans.
ABOUT OUR FIRM
A Focus on Providing Value
SERVICES
It's Not Just What We Do, But How We Do It
We begin with the basics: Sound fundamentals, with dedicated staff members who are trained in the latest tax, auditing and consulting practices and all applicable laws. We understand that the world of commerce is never static. It is constantly changing in response to new concepts and legislation on national, state and local levels.
Our goals are to help our clients identify opportunities, avoid pitfalls, plan successfully for the future and make the most out of every dollar. Our numerous long-term relationships with clients provide the best barometer of the level of value that Bert Smith & Co. provides.
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At Bert Smith & Co., we ensure that our staff have all the required certifications and other qualifications. We also believe that positive, long-term relationships with clients require adherence to clear performance standards. As a matter of professional practice, we:
Analyze our clients' needs and professional service requirements to ensure that we meet or exceed the expectations for each engagement;
Develop client service objectives and prepare a client service plan, based on solid accounting principles and audit standards;
Execute the plan in a manner that ensures commitments are met, potential problems anticipated and surprises avoided;
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AFFILIATES
BDO Alliance USA
We are an independent member of the BDO Alliance USA, a nationwide association of independently owned local and regional accounting, consulting and service firms with similar client service goals. The BDO Alliance USA presents an opportunity for firms to expand services to clients without jeopardizing our existing relationships or our autonomy by accessing the resources of BDO USA, LLP and other Alliance members. The BDO Alliance USA was developed to provide Member firms with an alternative strategy for gaining competitive advantage in the face of a changing business landscape. The Alliance represents an opportunity for BDO to enhance relationships with reputa...
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PARTNER BIOS
George S. Willie
Norman Graves
Dorothy Page Proctor
Hamida Karama
Stephanie Lane
George S. Willie, CPA, CGMA, CGFM
MANAGING PARTNER
George S. Willie has worked for more than 35 years in public accounting, specializing in the audits of healthcare, government and not-for-profit entities, serving on numerous boards and committees dealing with finance, auditing, and accounting issues.
George presently serves as the Chair of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Private Companies Practice Section (PCPS) and is the Chair of the Montgomery County Employee Retirement System Board of Investment Trustees. He also serves on the Board of Visitors ...
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We are an independent member of the BDO Alliance USA, a nationwide association of independently owned local and regional accounting, consulting and service firms with similar client service goals. The BDO Alliance USA presents an opportunity for firms to expand services to clients without jeopardizing our existing relationships or our autonomy by accessing the resources of BDO USA, LLP and other Alliance members. The BDO Alliance USA was developed to provide Member firms with an alternative strategy for gaining competitive advantage in the face of a changing business landscape. The Alliance represents an opportunity for BDO to enhance relationships with reputable firms that share a mutual...
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CAREERS
Come Join Our Team!
We're always looking for qualified professionals to join our team. We currently do not have any openings, so please check back soon! Feel free to send us your resume and qualifications using the contact info below. We look forward to hearing from you!
Mail:
1090 Vermont Avenue, NW, Suite 920
Washington, DC 20005
Phone:
202-393-5600
Fax: 202-393-0432
Email: bsmith@bertsmithco.com
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GSA SCHEDULE
GSA Schedule: The Consolidated Schedule - Federal Supply Schedule 00CORP
To maximize the service and value we provide to our clients in the Federal Government, Bert Smith & Co. is listed as a vendor on the GSA Schedule and under the Federal Supply Schedule 00CORP contracts. For more information on ordering from Federal Supply Schedules, click on the FSS Schedules button at http://www.gsa.gov.
The Consolidated Schedule
Federal Supply Schedule 00CORP
Financial & Performance Audits
Accounting
Complementary Financial Management Services
Integrated Consulting Services
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Minority-Owned SBA Small Business
Helping Government Agencies & Contractors Serve
Trying to fulfill a set-aside requirement for your agency's work? Looking to partner with a minority-owned small business? We can help. Bert Smith is a Minority-Owned Small Business as determined by the U.S. Small Business Administration, and we're here to help government agencies and government contractors serve the public through our comprehensive .
For more information about SBA Minority-Owned Small Businesses, visit the U.S. Small Business Administration website.
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PEER REVIEW
Staying on Top of Our Game
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) requires its member firms to undergo a peer review every three years. A peer review is a periodic external review of a firm's quality control system in accounting and auditing and is also known as the AICPA's practice monitoring program.
At Bert Smith & Co., we're proud to undergo this process, because it keeps us up-to-date with accounting regulations and industry-wide best practices.
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OUR PARTNERS
It's Not Just What We Do, But How We Do It
GEORGE S. WILLIE, CPA, CGMA, CGFM
George S. Willie has worked for more than 35 years in public accounting, specializing in the audits of healthcare, government and not-for-profit entities, serving on numerous boards and committees dealing with finance, auditing, and accounting issues.
Norman Graves, CPA, CGFM
Mr. Graves is a partner with Bert Smith & Co. and has over 27 years of experience conducting financial statement audits, program-specific compliance audits, grant programs under OMB Circular A-133, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Dorothy Page Proctor, CPA, MSC
Dorothy is a partner with Bert Smith & Co. and has over twenty-eight (28) years of experience conducting financial and compliance audits and internal control reviews, management services contracts, and financial reviews of federal, and more.
Hamida Karama, CPA
Hamida is the quality assurance partner for Bert Smith & Co. Hamida has over 18 years of experience in public accounting and providing auditing and advisory services for federal, state and local governments, healthcare, nonprofit and commercial entities.
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