• What Audit Conduct, LLC Can Do For You
• Services
• Clients / Former Clients (Partial List)
• Testimonials

What Audit Conduct, LLC Can Do For You

• Minimize the risk of noncompliance with critical independence and ethics rules
• Enhance quality controls over independence and ethics
• Break down and illustrate complex requirements, enhancing understanding and compliance

Services

• Create customized training programs
• Deliver or co-deliver ethics training, including "train the trainers" programs
• Help you prepare for a PCAOB inspection or peer review
• Help you remediate issues raised in a PCAOB inspection or peer review
• Update your firm's course materials, policies and procedures, or compliance tools
• Assess your firm’s quality controls and recommend enhancements
• Provide litigation and similar support in connection with a(n) legal, administrative, or regulatory proceeding or investigation (e.g., advise you and/or serve as an expert witness

Clients / Former Clients (Partial List)

• American Institute of CPAs
• BDO Seidman, LLP
• Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, LLP
• Clifton Gunderson, LLP
• Lurie, Besikof, Lapidus, & Company, LLP
• Elliott Davis, LLC
• McGladrey & Pullen, LLP
• Morgenthau & Greenes, LLP
• National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) LLP, Canada

Testimonials

I really appreciate having Cathy Allen as a resource and sounding board on independence matters. It's great to have such an experienced independent consultant to call upon for fresh perspectives and sound advice when unique or challenging issues arise.

Anita Ford, CPA, CFE
Chief Practice Officer
Clifton Gunderson

We've worked with Cathy twice over the last few years. She is extremely competent and professional. Her knowledge of independence and ethics is first rate. I look forward to working with her in the future.

Larry Shapiro
National Independence Director
BDO Seidman, LLP

I have worked with Cathy Allen for the past 10 years – initially while she was a Senior Manager in the Ethics Division of the AICPA and I was a member of the AICPA Professional Ethics Executive Committee and, more recently, as an independent consultant after she started her own business, Audit Conduct.  Cathy not only has deep knowledge of the ethical and independence standards governing the public accounting profession – she knows how to explain them in plain English.  She has been an excellent resource to our firm, helping us communicate our independence and ethical policies more clearly and effectively to our professional staff.  In each case, she has delivered high quality products to our firm on time and on budget.

Bruce Webb
Executive Partner-National Office of Audit and Accounting
McGladrey & Pullen, LLP

I had the pleasure of working with Cathy Allen in connection with her engagement as an expert witness. The case involved novel issues of ethical standards to be applied to accountants. We also were under strict time pressure.  Cathy was resourceful and provided a prompt, thorough and thoughtful analysis of the issues.  She was a real asset and I would not hesitate to use her services again.

Peter Goodman
Partner Hartman & Craven, LLP

Over the past few years, Cathy has worked on various ethics-related projects for the AICPA Professional Ethics Division. Her technical skills are outstanding. She is diligent, meets all deadlines and produces high quality work products that are truly commendable. I would highly recommend Cathy for all aspects of audit and ethics related matters.

Lisa A. Snyder, CPA (NJ)
Director - Professional Ethics Division
American Institute of CPAs