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Schneider Downs
Schneider Downs is an accounting and business advisory firm with offices in Pittsburgh, Columbus, and metropolitan Washington. It serves private companies, public companies, nonprofits, and private equity firms.
Audit and assurance work includes financial statement audits, employee benefit plan audits under ERISA, international assurance, public company assurance, and SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 reporting, including SOC for vendor supply chains.
Tax services run from compliance and consulting to income tax provisions under ASC 740 and IFRS, gift, trust and estate work, state and local tax covering multistate income, franchise, gross receipts and sales and use tax, abandoned and unclaimed property, credits and incentives including research and development and Pennsylvania educational improvement tax credits, international tax including FATCA and nonresident withholding, and transaction cost analysis.
Consulting spans risk advisory and internal audit, enterprise risk management, SOX readiness, third-party risk management, IT advisory, data privacy and security, business continuity and disaster recovery, forensic and litigation support, turnaround and restructuring, transaction advisory, managed accounting and lease accounting, private client services, and technology work including Microsoft Dynamics ERP, Power BI, and intelligent automation. The crawled pages do not show a real estate or construction industry group, so owners in those sectors should ask which team would serve them.
Best for
Companies in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and the mid-Atlantic needing an audit, a SOC report, multistate tax work, or internal audit and risk support from one regional firm rather than a national one.
What they do
- Financial statement audits
- Employee benefit plan audits (ERISA)
- SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 reporting
- Tax compliance and consulting
- State and local tax (SALT)
- International tax planning and reporting
- Transaction advisory and transaction cost analysis
- Internal audit and risk advisory
- Forensic and litigation support
- Managed accounting and lease accounting
Details
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Other offices | Columbus, OH, Washington, DC |
What stands out
- Lists offices in Pittsburgh, Columbus, and metropolitan Washington.
- Issues SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 reports, including SOC for vendor supply chains.
- Runs a dedicated private equity firm services practice alongside its private client group.
- Technology work includes Microsoft Dynamics ERP implementations, Power BI analytics, and intelligent automation.