Audit, Accounting, and Tax Services

Zielinski & Associates, P.C., a member of the Zielinski Companies' family of services, is recognized worldwide for our exclusive work with religious congregations and their sponsored institutions. Providing auditing and financial services to religious communities has been our primary mission since 1957.

We offer a broad range of auditing, accounting, income tax, social security tax, data processing, and management consulting services which assist communities clarify, focus upon, and carry out their mission. Our clients receive the benefits of our specialized experience with hundreds of religious communities.

Value Added Experience

Our staff has a broad range of expertise and experience. They have an impressive array of professional credentials and are cross trained to recognize opportunities and challenges facing our clients.

Members of our staff have professional backgrounds in accounting, tax, finance, law, business management, and information technology. They use this combination of expertise along with an understanding of religious life to develop a wide range of alternate approaches and achievable solution to the ever-changing financial and managerial needs facing religious congregations and institutions today. As a result, they develop workable solutions to identify and address the issues facing religious congregations.

Value Added Service

As part of our value added service, we present and help you use audited or reviewed annual statements as tools for enhancing and clarifying the financial decision making process of your congregation or institution. We will also provide a management letter and presentation explaining suggested improvements to the financial structure and operation of your organization.

Through the use of graphs and explanatory outlines, complicated financial statements become understandable road maps. The financial information and schedules we provide can assist with effectively projecting your financial future.

Financial Statement Reporting

Audit reports and statements are used for a variety of purposes. Considering the amount of time, effort and expense involved, religious clients deserve an auditing team that is experienced and acknowledge about the auditing and accounting needs of religious communities.  Our services include:

Audits—An audit provides the highest level of assurance. They require extensive examination of records supporting the financial statements.

Reviews—A review utilizes analytical procedures that provide a reasonable basis for expressing limited assurance that there are no material modifications that should be made to the statements in order for them  to be inconformity with generally accepted accounting principles.

Compilations—This service is the preparation, in the form of financial statements, of information that is solely the representation of the client.

Accounting Services

• Cash management
• General ledger
• Financial reports
• Central banking
• Bookkeeping
• Accounting systems
• Budgets and projections

Taxation & Non-Profit Entities

Today, there is a wide range of tax implications for religious congregations, institutions, and their membership. Our services are designed to assist you in this area and include:

• Patrimony
• Individual members' tax returns
• Returns of organizations exempt from income tax
• Tax planning
• Tax audit representations