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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I DET AILED PROPOSAL 1. General Requirements. Keefe, McCullough & Co., LLP, C.P.A. 's has existed as a firm for over thirty-five years and we are located in Fort Lauderdale to serve the South Florida area. Our office consists of nine partners, approximately fifty (50) professional accounting staff members and administrative support personnel. We have the capacity to handle the City's auditing needs and significant experience representing Broward municipalities, All of the firm I s professional accounting staff are a part of the governmental audit staff. Weare members of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Our practice includes audit engagements, management advisory services, tax planning and tax return preparation, and consulting services. We believe our growth can be attributed to our ability to give each client, regardless of size, personalized and timely service of the highest quality. Our service philosophy is based on the premise that every engagement receives personal overall supervision from a firm partner or partners. This approach guarantees that the same person will be in charge of your audit year after year. In addition, while the primary purpose of our auditing services is completing the audit of your financial statements and rendering an opinion on their fairness, we pride ourselves in continually looking for, and communicating by management letter or informal discussion, recommendations that may result in more efficient operations, stronger accounting and administrative controls or cost savings to our clients. Our firm's attention does not cease when your financial statements have been completed. We will be accessible to you throughout the year to provide answers to questions and consulting services, as needed. Our firm presently provides auditing services for a number of governmental entities, community mental health centers, employee benefit plans, not-for- profit organizations, and other entities. We are very proud to have served as independent auditors for governmental units similar to yours and numerous not-for-profit organizations. We have listed several of these entities for your reference as part of this detailed proposal. We believe that engagement tenure is indicative of the quality and continuity of our service, our flexibility in handling growth situations, and dealing with changing management and personnel. We feel that we excel in dealing with our clients on an individual basis and tailoring our service to meet their specific requirements. We have substantial experience in the area of compliance auditing in accordance with Government Auditing Standards ("The Yellow Book") and the OMB Circulars "Audits of State and Local Governments" and "Audits of Institutions of Higher Education and Other Nonprofit Organizations." We have many clients with substantial grant revenue that require Federal Single Audit and Florida Single Audit procedures, Due to the concentration of this type of work in our practice, we provide each member of our professional accounting staff with eighty hours of continuing professional education every two years. Of this total, twenty-four hours directly relate to governmental or other "Yellow Book" type engagements.