SEC Audits and Public Company Services

Silberstein Ungar, PLLC, a PCAOB registered CPA firm, is one of the Top 15 SEC Audit Firms in the United States, has more publicly traded clients than any other CPA firm that is headquartered in Michigan, and is one of the fastest growing SEC audit firms in the world. Our success, rapid growth, and client satisfaction is largely due to the outstanding service we provide to our clients, the fair fees that we charge, and the high quality experience of our partners and staff, some of whom have gained their expertise at large international accounting firms. The partner in charge of our SEC audit practice, Ronald N. Silberstein, was CFO and Chief Administrative Officer of a publicly traded company and its affiliated companies for 4 ½ years – and real-world experience like that plus the commitment of the SU staff to be the best helps SU provide its clients with a high quality, client-specific, non-adversarial audit process.  

Companies that are preparing to go public love working with us. Companies that have previously had issues with their auditors (especially fee issues or lack of good service issues) love working with us. Companies that have seen their CPA firm merge into a larger CPA firm love working with us. Companies that can’t afford the fees of the large CPA firms love working with us. Dealmakers love working with us. Law firms that do SEC work love working with us. The efficiency and promptness with which we can get an audit completed, the reasonable fee structure we are known for, and our ability to help add value to the process keeps our referral sources (including law firms and deal firms) sending us more and more new work. In short – we do what we say we’ll do when we say we’ll do it for the fees that we said we would charge.

We have more than 80 publicly traded clients and others that are getting ready to go public. Our SEC regulated clients are located and/or have operations through-out the U.S., Canada, Asia, Europe, and South America – giving us a global presence. Our SEC experience and expertise recently resulted in our being hired to consult with a CPA firm in the Middle East that has publicly traded clients, and we were recently in China to work with a new client that has sales > $60,000,000 USD and was readying to go public in the U.S., and we've been to SOuth Africa to work with multiple clients there.  We’re road warriors that travel frequently to service clients, and our clients receive constant and proactive attention from our principals. When needed, our membership in the MSI Global Alliance of Independent Legal and Accounting Firms gives us access to experienced CPA’s, auditors, and law firms located all over the world – so no matter where our clients are now or may be expanding to, we can help them. We’re available – and put a special emphasis on providing our clients with extraordinary services at fair and often reasonable fees.

We have had clients with revenues ranging from $-0- (development and exploration stage companies) to $200 million. We have worked with clients in a broad range of industries, including alternative energy, biotechnology, construction, entertainment and media (including new media), franchising, high technology, manufacturing, mining and exploration, real estate development, casual and quick-serve restaurants, retail, and wholesale distribution.

In order to ensure that our services meet the highest professional quality standards, we attend seminars given by the SEC Institute, PCAOB, and various other CPA continuing education organizations. The combination of experience and continual training ensures that we’re up to date on the latest SEC, FASB, PCAOB, and AICPA rules, regulations, and initiatives and this translates into more efficient audits, fewer SEC comment letters, faster resolution to those SEC comment letters that are received, and higher quality financial reporting for our SEC registrant clients.

We regularly work with our clients and their lawyers on a variety of things including prospectuses, Form S-1's, Form 10, 10K's, 10Q's, 8-K's, reverse merger transactions and pro-forma financials. We also assist them with merger and acquisition due diligence and often are hired to audit companies that our clients are attempting to acquire.

Our fees are normally lower than our competitors because we are efficient and we manage our own business well – so we are able to keep our overhead minimal and that results in lower fees for our clients – but not lesser service. We have recently expanded our audit staff in order to enable us to keep fulfilling our mission of providing extraordinary services to our clients.

Intrigued? Hopefully – yes, you are. Please call us to discuss your audit and accounting needs, the specifics of your business and your future plans, and/or any issues you may be having with your present auditor. If you deserve more than you are getting – or, just want to get a competitive quote for your audit – you and your company may benefit by talking with us.

Silberstein Ungar, PLLC

Ronald N. Silberstein – Principal and CPA – Leader, SEC Audit Practice
rons@sucpas.com
Direct Dial (248)341-1264