News Category: Retirement Plan Audits

Photo of employee working at desk preparing for the company's first retirement plan audit
June 30, 2020

Retirement Plan Audits Performed Remotely

importance of hiring quality employee benefit auditor
December 20, 2018

The Importance of Hiring a Quality Employee Benefit Plan Auditor

When an organization moves from having a small retirement plan to a large one, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) generally requires a retirement plan with 100 or more participants to have an audit of their plan performed by … Read more…

Photo of employees walking to office in company that will need to file their first time audit requirement
October 30, 2018

Hitting the First Time Audit Requirement

Consider the following scenario: it’s October 10th, and you have just been notified by your third-party administrator that your retirement plan program has exceeded the maximum number of eligible participants to qualify for “small” plan status. Your program is now … Read more…

July 28, 2016

ERISA Covered Employee Benefit Plans Audit Quality

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has completed an assessment of the quality of audit work performed by CPAs with respect to financial statement audits of employee benefit plans covered under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA)…

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