MGO CPA | Tax, Audit, and Consulting Services

Goal: Manage Risk

Tax Advocacy and Resolution

Enjoy the security of conflict resolution support

Pre-Audit Readiness

Identify potential tax risk areas, prepare for tax agency information requests, and work to resolve issues prior to a tax agency examination.

Audit Representation

We’ll be your guide at meetings with tax agencies, provide consultation on a regular basis, and deliver guidance on a resolution approach throughout the audit process.

Appeals and Offer-in-Compromise

We’ll support the preparation and filing of appeals and offer-in-compromise, and provide related guidance and consultation.

Penalty Abatement and Installment Agreements

Benefit from strategies for obtaining penalty abatements, negotiating installment agreements, and assisting with lessening the tax burden.

Post-Resolution Services

We will provide assistance with staying current on payments and agreements, and providing strategies to avoid repeat issues.

Our promise to you

Preparation is the key

Stay off the radar of tax authorities with our guidance on compliance and documentation best practices.

Peace-of-mind and cooperation

In the event of an audit, our tax professionals know exactly how to deliver what the IRS needs … without increasing your exposure. Let us manage the process so you avoid additional risk.

Optimal outcomes

Our deep experience with the IRS and other tax authorities helps us determine strategies that deliver results that protect the most important asset: your financial future.

Tax Leaders Ready To Serve You

As you grow, you face complex risks and opportunities. Benefit from hands-on guidance focused on delivering top-to-bottom value for you and your organization.

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Enterprise Business Tax

Your goal is to drive growth on a large scale. Our goal is to identify strategic opportunities, streamline complexities, and deliver tax solutions that align with your enterprise’s needs.

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State and Local Tax

With varying regulations in every market, reduce exposure and maximize your opportunities to save.

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Tax Credits and Incentives

Put your profits back where they belong: driving expansion and innovation for your organization. With experienced guidance credits and incentives can be a powerful tool for fueling your growth.

IT Consulting

Transform your enterprise

Protect your organization with technology built for your needs:

  • Perimeter Security Assessment
  • Physical Security Assessment
  • Policies and Procedures Practices Assessment
  • IT Risk Assessment
  • Third-Party (Service Providers) Assessment
  • Security Technology Architecture Review and Roadmap
  • HIPAA Security Rule Provisions Requirements Assessment
  • HIPAA Privacy Rule Provisions Requirements Assessment
  • HIPAA Privacy and Security Plan
  • Cloud Control Framework
  • IT Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance

Managed risk is your reward

Today’s interconnected digital world brings vulnerability to the increased risk of cyber fraud, theft, and abuse. These cyberattacks are inevitable — it’s not a matter of if your organization is attacked, but when.


Protect your organization from cyber threats

This cybersecurity breach road map and checklist is designed to give you the essential steps necessary to mitigate an attack within the first 24-hours — so you stay compliant and ensure you’re back to business as quickly as possible after an attack.

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Our promise to you

Holistic solutions

The right technology solutions must support every function within your organization. We’ll help identify, implement, and support the right tools for you.

The power of connectivity

Opportunity moves at the speed of light and you can’t be slowed down by your tech stack. We’ll help optimize performance so you can do business anywhere and anytime.

Digital agility achieved

Stay ahead of emerging threats and the competition, with technology tools engineered to boost enterprise performance.

Consulting leaders ready to serve you

As you grow, you face complex risks and opportunities. Benefit from hands-on guidance focused on delivering top-to-bottom value for you and your organization.

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Cybersecurity

Protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your critical data with leading-edge technology solutions.

Internal Audit, Risk, and Compliance

Solutions built for you

Internal Audit

By improving the effectiveness of controls, risk management, and governance practices, you can attain superior operational performance and be better prepared to manage enterprise risks. We support risk assessments, audit planning, and perform audits on out-sourced, co-sourced, and consultation-based arrangements.

Enterprise Risk Management

Proactive action to identify, mitigate, and limit opportunities for risk can have a transformational effect on your operations. Our professionals utilize the COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations) framework to assess the effectiveness of risk responses against operational, financial, and compliance risks; offer solutions to improve efficiency; work to align risk strategies with business goals; and ultimately design and implement enterprise risk management processes.

Vendor Contract Compliance

Business contracts are nuanced, complex, and essential to business revenue and compliance concerns. MGO offers comprehensive services to assess royalties, licensing, distribution, advertising, intellectual property, and other forms of agreements. A detailed assessment can result in steps to recover lost revenue while maintaining beneficial relationships with clients and vendors.

Anti-Money Laundering Assessment

Regulatory entities have enacted complex requirements to reduce graft and fraud, including the FINRA Rule 3310, Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), USA PATRIOT Act, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). We offer guidance for navigating compliance requirements while also proactively reducing opportunities for fraud enterprise-wide.

Sarbanes-Oxley and System Organization Controls

Consistent Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) 404 compliance is essential to shareholder, public, and regulatory confidence. Whether an organization is planning to institute SOX processes or optimize existing programs, MGO’s experienced consultants provide readiness assessments, sustainability assessments, and documentation and testing services that deliver effective SOX compliance activities.

Regulatory Risk

Falling out of regulatory compliance can have a major impact on market confidence, licensure, and the ability to operate. We will review all financial and operational areas at risk and work to optimize your compliance controls and processes.

Operational Assessment and Gap Analysis

Uncover inefficiencies and operational flaws with a detailed review of a specific function or assessment of your operational infrastructure. We’ll assess performance against industry/peer benchmarks and provide details of opportunities for improvement.

Organizational Contract Compliance

Review all procurement policies and organizational contracts to confirm proper third-party provider and vendor relationships.

Subrecipient Monitoring

Implement proper stewardship of sponsor funds and programming. We’ll monitor and assess all activities to guide compliance with federal statutes.

Internal Controls

To provide support for non-public companies. We’ll take a holistic view of your internal control environment to assess strength and effectiveness and measure performance against best practices and industry/peer benchmarks.

Our promise to you

Ease compliance burdens

Complex regulatory demands can undermine your growth. Let us do the hard work so you can rest easy.

Manage enterprise risk

Risk factors abound for even the most careful organizations. We’ll help focus on the details to identify small cracks before they become big problems.

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Launch growth initiatives

Protect value behind layers of controls so you can deliver the market confidence you need to elevate performance.

Consulting leaders ready to serve you

As you grow, you face complex risks and opportunities. Benefit from hands-on guidance focused on delivering top-to-bottom value for you and your organization.

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Fraud and Litigation Support

Protect your organization

Fraud Investigations

Identifying fraud is only the first step. What follows are sensitive recovery activities that include conducting a comprehensive investigation, pre-suit considerations, the litigation itself. All of which must be managed precisely so a judgment or restitution award is ultimately collected.

Litigation Support

We provide litigation support and expert witness testimony for situations requiring a professional recognized by the court as having expert knowledge about evidence. We provide extensive experience in financial, accounting, tax, and regulatory issues.

Fraud Risk Assessment

An effective fraud prevention program begins with a holistic assessment that identifies and tests existing internal controls. The resulting report will identify, analyze, and evaluate risks, giving your organization’s controlling body the necessary information to update or develop internal controls.

Digital Forensics Services

Modern fraud investigations often required highly-specialized skill managing electronic devices and evidence trails. Our Forensic Services team has experience capturing, authenticating and analyzing data, evidence, or information from electronic devices.

Third-Party Vendor Kickbacks

Kickback schemes are one of the most common, and difficult to identify, forms of fraud. Because kickback schemes aren’t easily observed in an organization’s books and records, the procedures require an investigator who thoroughly understands the industry and notices discrete red flags indicating a bribery or kickback arrangement.

Employee Embezzlement Investigations

Identifying employee fraud and misuse is a sensitive matter that can be conducted by “following the money” to both collect evidence of the crime, identify leads in the investigation, and ultimately identify assets subject to forfeiture.

Improper Revenue and Expense Recognition

Premeditated misrepresentation, misstatement, or omission of financial statement data to misrepresent the financial strength of an organization is a common, difficult to trace, fraudulent activity requiring specialized investigative techniques.

Anti-Bribery and Corruption Investigations

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and UK Bribery Act, are examples of anti-bribery and corruption regulations related to uncovering fraudulent practices in domestic and overseas operations. Our Forensic Services team offers invaluable knowledge of these regulations that enables us to identify and resolve sensitive, complex regulatory issues.

Divorce Services

In one of life’s most difficult situations, we provide guidance supporting attorneys and their clients to quantify economic losses in damage suits as well as identifying assets and income streams in matrimonial matters.

Our promise to you

Reliable guidance

Our Certified Fraud Examiners and risk management professionals have seen it all and will bring that experience to rooting out fraud in your organization.

An ounce of prevention

Stop fraudulent intent in its tracks with a proactive policy that seeks out opportunity before it becomes reality.

Support through every stage

Uncovering fraud may just be the first step to making it right. We’re with you all the way, including providing expert witness testimony, so you can achieve justice.

Consulting leaders ready to serve you

As you grow, you face complex risks and opportunities. Benefit from hands-on guidance focused on delivering top-to-bottom value for you and your organization.

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Cybersecurity

Minimize risk to power performance

Access Cybersecurity Strength

Take a proactive stance against cyber threats with solutions that uncover and resolve vulnerabilities.

  • Network and Cloud Blind Spots Assessment
  • Cybersecurity Risk Assessment
  • Ramson Security Assessment
Protect Against Threats

Ensure your cybersecurity policies are robust with focused testing of potential weak points.

  • Vulnerability Management
  • Penetration Testing
  • Cybersecurity IT Audit

Managed risk is your reward

Cybersecurity Breach Roadmap

Today’s interconnected digital world brings vulnerability to the increased risk of cyber fraud, theft, and abuse. These cyberattacks are inevitable — it’s not a matter of if your organization is attacked, but when.

Protect your organization from cyber threats

This cybersecurity breach road map and checklist is designed to give you the essential steps necessary to mitigate an attack within the first 24-hours — so you stay compliant and ensure you’re back to business as quickly as possible after an attack.

Download PDF

Our promise to you

Top-to-bottom protection

Safeguarding sensitive data and IP must be a top priority for success today and long into the future.

Turn compliance into opportunity

Evolving regulatory requirements provide an opportunity to build an organization ready for the future.

Emerging threats mitigated

Cybersecurity is a game of “whack-a-mole” but you can enjoy peace of mind with dedicated support addressing the latest threats.

Consulting leaders ready to serve you

As you grow, you face complex risks and opportunities. Benefit from hands-on guidance focused on delivering top-to-bottom value for you and your organization.

Client Accounting Solutions

Lower costs and boost performance

Outsourced Accounting Support

Whether you want to augment your team or transform the accounting function, the benefits of outsourcing include:

  • Accounts payable and receivable
  • Journal entry and ledger maintenance
  • Financial statement preparation
  • Tax planning and consultation
  • Classification, entry, and verification of transactions
  • Sales tax processing
  • Fixed asset and depreciation tracking
  • Cash balance tracking
  • Monthly reconciliation
Virtual CFO

Whether you lead and early-stage business or a mature organization in transition, our virtual/interim CFO solutions provide financial leadership at times when you need it most. The roles we help fill include:

  • Chief financial officer
  • Controller
  • Director of finance
  • Vice president of finance
IPO and Event Readiness

Seize opportunity with our highly-scalable finance and accounting solutions backed by a deep understanding of accounting standards. Specific areas where we can provide support include:

  • Preparation of filing documents, such as Form S-1
  • Implementation of new or modified accounting standards
  • Preparation of annual, interim, and pro forma financial statements
  • Income tax provision and preparation note disclosures
  • Preparation of transaction and audit analyses and support
  • Valuation services, including allocation of purchase price
  • Conversion from GAAP or IFRS
  • Transaction or audit readiness and audit liaison support

Our promise to you

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Here for you

Never miss an opportunity to grow. Our tactical approach puts support on-hand in the times and places you need it the most.

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Be resource savvy

Maintaining a robust accounting function can be expensive. Outsourcing to qualified professionals can ease stress and deliver peace-of-mind.

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Technical guidance on tap

With big transactions or deadlines in your future gaining access to technical resources can safeguard value and set you up for success.

Consulting leaders ready to serve you

As you grow, you face complex risks and opportunities. Benefit from hands-on guidance focused on delivering top-to-bottom value for you and your organization.

We were quite happy with Angel's leadership.  This was an extremely complex project, and at all points of the engagement we felt that we were important to MGO and the team.  It was a Herculean effort by the MGO team.

CEO National Nonprofit based in Los Angeles

While under an extremely tight deadline with intense time pressure, MGO’s recent audit of Amyris’ financial statements was thorough, focused, and insightful. MGO clearly has the technical expertise and resources to respond to a firm as large and complex as Amyris, Inc., and provides the personal touch and attention that is unusual.

Jonathon Wolter Interim CFO, Amyris Inc.

We can’t believe the difference in (the MGO) team’s professionalism and engagement.

Charlie Bowman CEO and President, HEXO Corp.

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Transaction Advisory

Whether you’re buying or selling, you need to capitalize on every opportunity to maximize your return. With our support you can manage risk and uncover opportunities through every stage of the deal.

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Technical Accounting

Leverage MGO’s Technical Accounting for state controllers reports, technical R&D, and more. Enhance your financial operations now.