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Seven Best Practices to Build a Better Relationship with Your Audit Firm

July 29, 2026

We’re pleased to share the article, Beyond the Audit in 2026: Best Practices to Build and Strengthen Your Relationship with Your Audit Firm, recently published by Blackbaud.

There are changes that will likely occur at your nonprofit, outside the routine audit, that could have a significant impact on your financial reporting, internal policies, controls or audit readiness. These include: adopting new technologies, changing staff or workflows, adding remote work locations, creating new funding sources and shifting management roles, to name a few. Discussions with your auditor during these times can help you better understand how these changes may affect the annual audit process.

Authored by Partner Scott A. Brown, this article offers seven best practices to help nonprofits strengthen communication with their audit firm, support audit readiness and navigate organizational change.

Read the full article here.

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If you have any questions, contact your PKF O’Connor Davies client service team or:

Scott A. Brown, CPA
Partner
sbrown@pkfod.com