Certified Public Accountant (CPA) to do a review of financial statements for a nonprofit

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Our small nonprofit organization has passed the threshold of annual revenue at which a review of financial statements is required by the state, so we need a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) to do a review. We have been on Quickbooks Online for a few years, so we can provide easy access to our books if needed.

We already filed the IRS form 990 and can email it, our P & L and Balance sheet and any other information. The finances are pretty basic, as our expenses have always been less than $150,000, and were only $76,000 last FY. The only paid staff member was our Executive Director, and he volunteered 90% of his time and was paid only $6,000. Most of our work is done by volunteers.

You can be anywhere in the U.S. The state, which is Massachusetts, doesn't require the CPA to be from the state. They said they just need a typical review of financial statements, and that they don’t have any requirements beyond normal reviewed financial statements -

http://www.mass.gov/ago/doing-business-in-massachusetts/public-charities-or-not-for-profits/information-for-existing-charities/audits-and-reviews.html

We’ve always used Quickbooks, and when we set up our books in 2004, we used the nonprofit Unified Chart of Accounts (UCOA), which was created by a group of nonprofit CPAs as an ideal chart of accounts that matches up exactly with IRS requirements and with the lines of the 990 -

https://4good.org/bill-levis/unified-chart-of-accounts-ucoa

If you want to get a sense of what we're doing, here are some of our websites that are live, in beta or in initial development. They fall into three broad groups:

1) a group of innovative websites to provide other nonprofits (and their supporters) with unique tools they can use to raise money for their causes. This link below gives an overview: click the "See More" buttons at the end of the sections. In the future, each logo will go to a unique website focused on that fundraising tool. About half of the logos are already linked to sites that are either done or in progress:

http://maximumgood.org/

A few examples are:

https://volunteerathon.org
http://giveitup.net/
http://loseathon.org/

This is a sample of how a person's fundraising page looks - the format is the same at most sites, but each has a unique logo, activity and color scheme:

http://loseathon.org/fundraiser

We've ported the entire IRS database of 1 million nonprofits to our website, so all 1 million nonprofits will automatically have pages at all of the fundraising websites. E.g. -

http://loseathon.org/nonprofit/

We're also creating these tools to give people fundraising opportunities every season and holiday of the year: http://calendarforgood.org/


2) new projects to fight global poverty, slavery and climate change. You can see the logos of many of them at these links. In the future clicking on each logo will go to a unique website:

http://fortheearth.org/

There are other climate change websites we're creating and the best ones are not up there yet.

http://fortheslaves.org/

One of the anti-slavery websites is a modern-day equivalent of the Underground Railroad. You can see the video we made for it and a draft of the website here - when we launch, it will be at .org -

http://virtualrailroad.info

3) an existing website that provides news related to making the world a better place covering various topics including nonprofits, human rights, extreme poverty, climate change, giving and volunteering: http://DailySource.org. This site has existed for over 14 years. You can see a few of the team members here: http://DailySource.org/about/team.

If you're potentially interested in doing the review, please let us know. Many thanks.