Integrity: VTD promises to do the right thing without regard to self interest.
Quality: VTD commits to deliver on our promises with the highest standards of pride, performance, and results.
Knowledge: VTD works to nurture and require competence, knowledge, and training.
Team Work: VTD determines to support the success of our clients and employees as a firm-wide goal.
Life Balance: VTD will maintain a strong work ethic while respecting our team members’ personal lives.
Partner involvement and consistency of staff from year-to-year play key roles in delivering a quality product. Your partner will ensure your needs are addressed. We will also commit, to the best of our ability, to providing consistency of staff for the term of the contract. We have built our reputation on quality work, quality staff and timely completion of our audits.
VTD has an extremely low percentage turnover of professional staff. Thus, our staff has a unique blend of experience, technical knowledge, and management expertise which can only be found in a firm that has maintained consistency of staffing. We feel this is an important aspect of our practice that enables us to provide our clients with the highest quality product available. All of our professional staff are required to maintain a minimum of 80 hours of professional education every 2 years.
Our CPA firm has a full time Partner solely dedicated to the quality control function. Our QC Partner is responsible for the completion of our annual internal peer review process. Our quality control program monitors all aspects of our practice. Our clients can be confident that VTD has the highest quality control standards. As required by law, we will retain all working papers and other documents for seven years.
VTD is committed to providing ongoing industry specific training. This ensures that our staff will have the highest technical knowledge in the industry. Training is provided by VTD instructors, California CPA Education Foundation courses, and AICPA and industry experts. Each of these types of training courses is designed to provide current technical expertise to our staff. We feel it is our job to train our team – not yours.
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Each of our staff brings specialized experience that allows for a new outlook to the audit with innovative suggestions to improve quality and efficiency within your agency’s business office. The choice of an audit firm should be primarily based upon staff expertise and service. We have an extremely low percentage of employee turnover and we are confident that we will provide your agency with consistent staff over the contract period. Partner involvement is also key to the audit’s success. Your partner in charge of the engagement will spend time at your agency and will meet with management, the audit committee and the Board as necessary to ensure communication lines remain open, that any outstanding issues are resolved timely, and that your needs are met. Many of our professionals have direct management experience within their industry. This experience enhances our ability to add value to our clients' audit service.
Vavrinek, Trine, Day & Co., LLP is licensed to practice public accounting in the State of California and has complied with all applicable California State Board of Accountancy requirements. In addition, all of the managerial staff assigned to the audit are also licensed to practice in the State of California and have complied with all applicable Board of Accountancy standards.
All CPA Partners and CPAs of Vavrinek, Trine, Day & Co., LLP are members of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the California Society of Certified Public Accountants (CalCPA) and, as a firm we are registered with the Public Companies Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). We are active members in the California Association of School Business Officials (CASBO), California School Boards Association (CSBA), Governmental Finance Officers Association (GFOA), and serve on many research and development subcommittees. Each of these organizations serves to provide updated information within the particular practice section and also provides an opportunity for our partners and managers to prepare conference presentations over such areas as Internal Accounting Control, Fraud Detection and Prevention, and Understanding the Audit Process. VTD is also members of CPA-USA Network, Society of Internal Auditors, and Western Independent Bankers Association.
We are also members of the Western Association of Accounting Firms (WAAF). This is an association of 10 prominent western United States accounting firms that meet frequently during the year to share updates within the accounting profession and provide peer reviews and management services reviews as part of our ongoing quality control program.