For nonprofits and research organizations
Find the support your organization needs.
Clearer financial information. Stronger processes. More confident decisions. Pennies Count brings experienced financial leadership and a forensic-minded perspective to the questions your organization is facing.
You don’t need to choose a service before we speak. Start with what’s on your mind.
Ways to work together
Start with what you need to understand or improve.
A focused concern may call for a defined review. Recurring financial demands may call for ongoing leadership. Independent oversight requires its own scope and reporting relationship.
Understand a specific concern
Specialized Reviews
Take a focused look at audit readiness, financial health, grant compliance, research finance, or one financial process. Receive plain-English findings and priorities within an agreed scope.
Explore Specialized Reviews →Find the right level of accounting support
Bookkeeping & Accounting Support
Pennies Count helps nonprofits and research organizations determine whether they need bookkeeping, Fractional Controller, or Fractional CFO support.
Bookkeeping focuses on recording transactions and reconciling bank and credit card accounts. Engagements are accepted selectively based on fit and capacity.
You don't have to know what the problem is to start the conversation.
Bring structure to financial operations
Fractional Controller
Strengthen month-end close, reconciliations, reporting, and accounting oversight so leadership has more reliable information to work with.
Explore Controller support →Make informed financial decisions
Fractional CFO
Connect cash forecasts, budgets, funding, and financial scenarios to the decisions your leadership team and board need to make.
Explore CFO support →Experienced financial support when you need it most.
Interim Accounting & Financial Leadership
Whether your controller is on leave, your accounting manager has departed, or you're searching for a new finance leader, Pennies Count can help maintain continuity.
We provide temporary accounting, controller, and financial leadership support for nonprofits and research organizations, tailored to your organization's needs and transition period.
Understand the finances behind research
Research Finance
Bring greater clarity to award balances, personnel allocations, PI reporting, billing, and closeout across grants, contracts, and research programs.
Explore Research Finance →Strengthen financial processes
Internal Controls & Financial Infrastructure
Design, document, and implement approvals, responsibilities, and workflows that match your organization’s operations. Management retains ownership of controls.
Explore Internal Controls support →Restore clarity in your records
Forensic Cleanup
Trace unexplained balances, resolve historical accounting discrepancies, and document corrections so nonprofit and research leaders can understand and rely on their financial records.
Explore Forensic Cleanup →Independent evidence for oversight
Outsourced Internal Audit
Give board and committee members evidence to support their oversight beyond management’s assurances. Agreed risk-based evaluation, documented findings, and corrective-action follow-up help governance understand what deserves attention.
Governance authorization, direct committee reporting, and independence are established before an engagement begins.
Explore Internal Audit →A complimentary starting point
Financial Assessments
Short self-assessments help you recognize areas that may deserve a closer look. They guide a conversation; they do not verify records or establish findings.
Explore nonprofit assessments →Explore the research assessment →Three distinct ways to address controls
A closer look, stronger processes, or independent oversight?
Internal Controls Review
A $750 review of one financial process to identify weaknesses and priorities. Design and implementation are separately scoped.
Explore the one-process review →Internal Controls Service
Design, document, and implement controls with management responsible for decisions and ongoing operation.
Explore design and implementation →Internal Audit Services
Independent evaluation of agreed risks, activities, and controls, with supported findings reported to authorized governance.
Explore independent oversight →Pennies Count will not independently audit controls it designed or implemented. Work in unaffected areas requires documented safeguards and independent coverage of excluded controls. Specialized Reviews are consulting engagements and do not provide an audit opinion or attestation review conclusion.
What’s on your mind?
You don't have to know what the problem is to start the conversation.
Bring the question, the concern, or the feeling that something deserves attention. We’ll listen and talk through an appropriate next step.