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Employee Benefit Plan Audits

 Parsons CPA’s ERISA Audit 服务

Peer Reviewed Audit 服务

Performed by another CPA firm to review if our practice meets all professional standards

Employee Benefit Plans Audit Quality Center Member

Meet specific experience, training and practice monitoring requirements

Advanced Defined Contribution Plans Audit Certificate

AICPA exam-based certification covering 401(k), 403(b), and ESOP plans

Continuity in Staffing

The audit will be led by experienced staff to avoid unnecessary redundancy

Specialization and Efficiency

A specialist provides more depth of knowledge and a streamlined process, saving the client hours of work and generally much lower fees than large regional and national firms

A deficiency finding in an audit may result in civil penalties levied on the plan's sponsor. In today's litigious environment, it is more important than ever that the auditors that you engage are experts in auditing employee benefit plans.


What is an Employee Benefit Plan Audit?

The principal objective of an employee benefit plan audit is to provide information that is useful in assessing a plan’s present and future ability to pay benefits.

Who needs an Employee Benefit Plan Audit?

Plans with 100 or more participants at the beginning of the plan year are generally required to have a plan audit.

Who are eligible participants?

Eligible participants include all employees who are eligible to contribute to the plan, not just employees that actually contribute or have account balances.

涉及到什么?

An Employee Benefit Plan Audit encompasses a financial statement audit of an employee benefit plan to be filed with the 5500, along with Compliance testing, 包括:

  • Participant eligibility
  • Timing of contributions to the plan
  • 计划的补偿
  • Disclosure of prohibited transactions
  • Other compliance matters applicable to the plan

The auditor’s primary objective, under professional standards, is to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. Subsequently, the auditor reports on the financial statements in accordance with their findings. 除了, the DOL expects the independent auditor to submit an opinion on the material fairness and accuracy of the DOL-required supplemental schedules attached to the Form 5500.

Testing for reasonable assurance and accuracy is important due to the multiple parties involved in the financial reporting process for an employee benefit plan. 通常, EBP financial reporting requires multiple participants including the plan sponsor’s financial accounting and human resources department, a third-party administrator, investment trustees and custodians, 一个精算师, ERISA legal counsel and an independent auditor.

也, for an employee benefit plan audit, the plan’s financial reporting and audit environment are considerably unique and elevate the complexity of the audit. Among these unique characteristics are the nature of plan operations, 各种法则, Department of Labor (DOL) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations, special reporting and audit requirements. 除了, other possible complicating components are plan documents, 计划合并, freezes or terminations and changes in service organizations.

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