Our Services

Dickey and Tremper, LLP has extensive experience working with and auditing cities, school districts, community colleges, and other governmental and non-profit organizations. We also have experience performing Single Audits and preparing Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports. Most of the municipal audits we perform are subject to Governmental Auditing Standards and the Single Audit Act. It is our practice to provide a total service approach and follow-up for each audit engagement. Our firm maintains high quality control standards, which requires Dickey and Tremper, LLP staff to provide more in-depth auditing services than you would receive from most firms. Our firm focuses on working with clients to complete projects in a timely fashion. Most of our audits have been repeat engagements over multiple years and we pride ourselves on delivering quality work while meeting deadlines, regardless of the complexity of the project. Our firm is large enough to serve you, but small enough to ensure that you are not just another client to us. Dickey and Tremper LLP is a member of the Government Audit Quality Center (GAQC), the Private Companies Practice Section (PCPS), the American Institute for Certified Public Accountants, The Oregon Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts. In addition, Mark Dickey is a board member of the Oregon Board of Accountancy Peer Review Committee. We also participate in the AICPA peer review program, both as an audit firm and as a peer reviewer. Our firm has always received an unqualified opinion (pass rating) with no deficiencies or letters of comments.

Our firm is experienced in providing management consulting services and agreed upon procedures to businesses, local government units, and non-profit organizations. These types of services are normally performed by the partners or senior staff. We have performed a number of management consulting engagements and agreed upon procedures in the past. These engagements have included: Design of extensive chart of accounts for an entity with approximately twenty individual funds, with provisions for cost accounting. Implementation of GASB Statements and assistance with compiling fixed asset and infrastructure data. Concurring review of financial statements. Assessing and designing internal control systems. Agreed Upon Procedures to test franchise fee payments and fuel tax revenues. Agreed Upon Procedures for testing of System Development Charges expenditures and revenues, and maintenance of restricted funds. Agreed Upon Procedures to test transient room tax revenues reported by local hotels. Agreed Upon Procedures to test compliance with conservation measures and energy efficiency. Agreed Upon Procedures for landfill financial assurance and recertification. Assistance pertaining to valuation of “side accounts” related to issuance of PERS pension obligation bonds. Assistance in preparation of corrective action plans. Reconciliation of cash accounts and activity recorded in the general ledger. Evaluation of software programs and installation of selected software. Computer troubleshooting, to include hardware and software maintenance. Compliance with Oregon Budget Laws and procedures and the preparations of annual budgets. Fixed asset accounting and depreciation schedules. Interviewing and providing recommendations for accounting applicants. Evaluation of financing options.Fraud investigation and substantiation.

Our firm's experience ranges from audits, reviews, compilations and agreed upon procedures for various for-profit businesses, school districts, community colleges, and other governmental and non-profit organizations. We are available to provide system and engagement reviews for firms that practice in these areas.