Accounting Advisory Services

Professional accounting services, project leadership, and interim talent placement

Services for your most complex accounting challenges 

Today’s business leaders and finance professionals confront constant change, uncertain markets, increased regulatory scrutiny, and unpredictable talent constraints. In the face of these challenges, they often depend on outside support and additional capacity to meet critical business responsibilities and objectives. 

BDO’s Accounting Advisory Services combine deep technical accounting knowledge, seasoned financial leadership, and flexible talent delivery to address an organization’s most pressing finance and accounting challenges. Our professionals can work as extensions of your team, collaborating with management or integrating seamlessly into your organization to stabilize operations, help resolve complex issues, and execute critical projects. Or we can engage as an outside resource on complex, deadline-driven projects.

From audit readiness and financial reporting to interim leadership, transaction support, and finance transformation, we deliver practical services grounded in real-world experience. Our approach is collaborative, disciplined, and results-driven, designed to help your organization develop stronger processes, clearer reporting, and greater confidence with auditors, regulators, boards, and stakeholders.

How BDO Can Help

BDO offers finance and accounting services to help your organization achieve its goals.

Accounting Advisory Capabilities   

When you need prompt, professional guidance to answer an urgent financial challenge, our accounting team can provide experienced leadership and dedicated short-term or project-based support. Our services include: 
  • Accounting 
  • External reporting 
  • Information technology consulting 
  • Supply chain and procurement guidance 
  • Tax and payroll support


Keeping up with reporting deadlines can be challenging for overburdened accounting teams. When you need support, you can depend on our experienced professionals to help you comply with your reporting requirements and timetables. Our financial reporting services include: 
  • Financial statement preparation and disclosures
  • SEC and regulatory reporting
  • Management and operational reporting
  • Consolidation and intercompany analysis
  • Month-end close support

Preparing for an audit calls for objectivity, focus, and meticulous attention to detail. In-house teams, no matter how experienced or professional, can be strained by the added demands of audit readiness, and may benefit from outside perspectives in critical evaluations. Our audit readiness and accounting cleanup services include: 
  • Audit readiness assessments and ongoing support
  • Cash-to-accrual conversions and account cleanup
  • Internal control evaluation and enhancement
  • Restatement assistance and remediation

Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other transactions can bring significant disruption to your organization and operations, especially for your finance and accounting team. With outside support from trusted professionals, you can rise to the challenge without placing undue strain on your in-house resources. Our transaction support services include:

Major decisions about long-term strategies and business objectives benefit from objective financial planning and analysis by experienced, outside professionals. You can find the reliable intelligence you need at BDO. Our FP&A services include: 
  • Cash forecasting and financial modeling
  • Budgeting, benchmarking, and variance analysis
  • Project costing and reconciliation
  • Finance process improvement and transformation
  • Systems implementations and conversions
  • Special projects and change initiatives

Inefficiencies and irregularities accumulate over time in any large organization, even (perhaps especially) in finance and accounting processes. You can improve and streamline these critical functions in your business with help from our impartial F&A professionals. Our services include:
  • Financial close assistance 
  • Accounting cleanup and account reconciliations 
  • Policy and procedure development
  • System and software conversions
  • Project management 
  • Special projects

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