A finding, control gap, or documentation weakness needs to be remediated.
We build the evidence trail: root cause, control design, CAP milestones, SOP updates, workpapers, and management-ready status reporting.
CPA-led Federal, SLED, GovCon & vCFO advisory
Financial operations that are built to be examined.
Turner CPA & Consulting helps agencies, prime contractors, grant recipients, nonprofits, and owner-led businesses move from reactive accounting to audit-ready, contract-ready, and decision-ready finance. We strengthen the books, controls, documentation, dashboards, and CFO cadence that need to withstand executive, lender, grantor, IG, GAO, and independent-auditor scrutiny.
Founder-led advisory for high-scrutiny environments
Most accounting problems are not only accounting problems. They are documentation, controls, timing, evidence, reporting, and decision problems. Turner CPA & Consulting is built to diagnose the full operating picture and turn it into clear, review-ready work products.
01Woman-owned · Veteran-owned · Minority-owned
02SAM registered · UEI EGRSQB6YJ2U7
03Federal & SLED-fluent · CAP, A-123, Yellow Book, Single Audit
04Documentation built to auditor standards
When to call
Clear help for the moments that create financial and compliance pressure.
The work is structured for leaders who need more than generic bookkeeping, more than a memo, and more than a checklist. Each path is designed around a visible outcome.
A contractor needs accounting discipline before the opportunity arrives.
We review accounting-system posture, timekeeping discipline, indirect-rate logic, documentation hygiene, and readiness for prime or federal scrutiny.
Federal or state funding requires stronger grant controls.
We support SEFA readiness, allowability controls, procurement documentation, subrecipient monitoring, and Single Audit preparation.
The owner needs clean books, cash visibility, and a CFO cadence.
We stabilize the close, create decision dashboards, improve cash-flow discipline, and build lender, board, or buyer-ready reporting.
Practice areas
One practice, four connected lanes of readiness.
We translate federal, SLED, grant, GovCon, and owner-led business requirements into operating controls your team can run and documentation reviewers can verify.
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Federal Internal Controls & OMB A-123
Risk assessments, control design, testing programs, and management assurance documentation aligned to GAO Green Book and OMB Circular A-123 (including Appendix A for ICFR).
- Entity-level and process-level control narratives
- Risk & control matrices (RCMs), walkthroughs, test plans
- Management self-assessment packages
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Audit Readiness & CAP Remediation
Pre-audit diagnostics, NFR/finding triage, and corrective action plan (CAP) execution — from root-cause analysis to evidence packages your auditors will close.
- Audit prep playbooks and PBC list management
- NFR / finding response and milestone tracking
- Closure evidence and re-test support
III.
Yellow Book Advisory
Advisory aligned to GAGAS — supporting agencies, IPAs, and grantees with independence-aware engagement structures, documentation standards, and quality review.
- GAGAS-aligned workpaper and review standards
- Independence safeguards for non-attest services
- Engagement quality reviews
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Single Audit & Grant Compliance
Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200) readiness for pass-through entities and subrecipients — from allowability and procurement to subrecipient monitoring and SEFA preparation.
- SEFA preparation and reconciliation
- Procurement, allowability, and time-and-effort controls
- Subrecipient risk and monitoring programs
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SOPs & Documentation
Standard operating procedures, desk guides, and policy frameworks written for the people doing the work — and structured for the auditors reviewing it.
- Process maps, RACI, and control matrices
- Desk procedures and reviewer checklists
- Policy refresh and version governance
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GovCon Accounting Readiness
For federal contractors preparing for DCAA scrutiny — accounting system adequacy, indirect rate structures, timekeeping discipline, and incurred cost readiness.
- SF 1408 accounting system review
- Indirect rate structure and pool design
- Timekeeping, labor distribution, and ICS readiness
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Accounting, vCFO & Financial Advisory
Fractional CFO, outsourced CFO, and controllership support for owner-led businesses — clean books, defensible close, management reporting, cash-flow discipline, and financial insight that supports growth, lending, and exit readiness.
- Month-end close design and review
- Budgeting, forecasting, and cash-flow advisory
- Cash, AR/AP, and gross-margin governance
- Tax-ready books and lender-ready reporting
VIII.
Federal Certification Roadmap
For firms preparing for federal certifications and small-business set-asides — readiness reviews, accounting hygiene, and the financial posture certifications require.
- SDVOSB, WOSB, 8(a), Maryland CSB/SBR, Virginia SWaM, DC CBE, and MBE/DBE preparation
- Financial statement and tax alignment
- SAM.gov and SBA documentation hygiene
Who we serve
Built for environments where the documentation has to be defensible.
Our clients operate in scrutiny-heavy environments — federal agencies, federal contractors, grant recipients, and growth-stage businesses preparing for an audit, a lender, or a buyer. The common thread is accountability: every number has to be traceable, every control has to be evidenced, and every assertion has to hold up under independent review.
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Federal agencies & program offices
Component-level A-123 programs, mission-support functions, and CFO offices needing surge capacity or specialized control design.
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Federal contractors (GovCon)
Pre-award through incurred-cost — firms entering the federal market or maturing their accounting and compliance posture.
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Grant recipients & pass-through entities
Nonprofits, state and local entities, and institutions of higher education subject to Single Audit and Uniform Guidance.
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Small & growth-stage businesses
Owner-led companies that need a CPA who can run the close, the controls, and the conversation with their lender or buyer.
Why Turner
A practice with a federal compass and a CPA backbone.
Federal-fluent by training
Engagements led by a CPA who reads the Green Book, the Yellow Book, OMB Circulars, and 2 CFR 200 as working documents — not as references.
Documentation that survives review
Workpapers, narratives, and CAP evidence structured for auditor sufficiency — clear linkage from risk to control to test to conclusion.
Surge capacity, senior delivery
You work with the principal. No layered staffing model, no learning curve passed back to you — the senior on the proposal is the senior on the work.
Translation between worlds
We move fluently between federal compliance vocabulary and small-business operating reality — translating one into the other without losing either.
Veteran-led discipline
A Navy background shows up in the work — clarity on the mission, discipline in execution, and an instinct for chain-of-evidence rigor.
Fixed scope, fixed outcomes
Where it serves the engagement, we deliver against productized scopes with defined artifacts — so you can plan, budget, and report against a known deliverable.
Credential ledger
Professional credibility, stated precisely.
Founder
Rashidat Turner, CPA, MBA, MSA
CPA licensure
Illinois · Virginia · Georgia
Federal registration
SAM registered · UEI EGRSQB6YJ2U7
Business positioning
Woman-owned · Veteran-owned · Minority-owned
Certification pipeline
Pursuing SDVOSB, WOSB, 8(a), CSB/SBR, SWaM, CBE, MBE/DBE
Risk lens
Life Insurance Producer License, used as continuity-awareness context
Productized offers
Defined scopes. Defined deliverables. A senior principal on the work.
Engagement formats designed to move a finding, a function, or a firm from where it is to where it needs to be. Each scope is shaped to your environment and anchored to tangible work products.
Diagnostic
Controls & Audit Readiness Assessment
A focused diagnostic of your control environment against A-123, Green Book, or Uniform Guidance — depending on which framework governs your work.
- Entity- and process-level walkthroughs
- Risk and control matrix (RCM) baseline
- Gap register with prioritized remediation
- Executive readiness memo
Typical duration4 – 6 weeks
Remediation
CAP Build & Closure Program
Corrective action plan design and execution — from root-cause analysis through evidence and re-test, structured to close findings on the first review.
- Root-cause analysis per finding/NFR
- Milestoned CAP with owners and evidence map
- Workpaper and evidence package build
- Re-test coordination with auditors
Typical duration8 – 16 weeks
Build
SOP & Policy Library
A documented, version-governed library of SOPs, desk guides, and policies — built to the way the team actually works and the way auditors actually read.
- Process maps, RACI, and control linkage
- Desk procedures with reviewer checklists
- Policy framework and approval ladder
- Version control and refresh cadence
Typical duration6 – 12 weeks
Advisory
vCFO / Fractional CFO Operating Cadence
A recurring advisory rhythm for owners and executives who need cleaner books, stronger forecasts, cash visibility, and decision-ready reporting without hiring a full-time CFO.
- Close review and monthly management package
- Budget-to-actual and cash-flow dashboard
- Board, lender, or owner reporting cadence
- Financial controls and delegation-of-authority tune-up
Typical cadenceMonthly
Accounting, advisory & contracting readiness
A roadmap from bookkeeping to finance-ready.
For small businesses, nonprofits, SLED entities, and government contractors, financial posture is the gate. We sequence the work so the books, reporting, advisory cadence, accounting system, and compliance documentation are ready for lenders, boards, grantors, agencies, primes, and certifying bodies.
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Phase 1
Books & close discipline
Chart of accounts, monthly close, and reviewed financials that lenders, sureties, and certifying bodies will accept without rework.
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Phase 2
Management reporting & CFO cadence
Budget-to-actual reporting, cash-flow forecasting, KPI dashboards, board or owner reporting, and vCFO / Fractional CFO advisory rhythms that turn the books into decisions.
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Phase 3
Compliance & accounting-system posture
Accounting-system adequacy, grant controls, indirect-cost discipline, SAM.gov hygiene, NAICS alignment, and financial documentation that support SDVOSB, WOSB, 8(a), Maryland CSB/SBR, Virginia SWaM, DC CBE, and MBE/DBE pathways.
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Phase 4
Execution readiness
Indirect rate strategy, grant and contract billing discipline, outsourced CFO support, incurred-cost preparation, and SOPs that keep accounting, advisory, performance, and compliance aligned through delivery.
A note from the founder
Rashidat N. Turner, CPA, MBA, MSA
"I built this practice for the work I kept being asked to do — the careful, documented, auditor-defensible work that gets a control environment from almost to actually."
My background sits at an unusual intersection: CPA licensure in Illinois, Virginia, and Georgia; an MBA, MSA, and BA/BS academic foundation; a Life Insurance Producer License; federal internal-controls work; and service as a Sailor in the U.S. Navy. Each one has shaped how I run engagements. The CPA discipline gives the work its standards. The federal work gives it its frameworks. The insurance-producer credential adds a practical lens around continuity and owner protection. The Navy gave it its instinct — a respect for the mission, and for the people on the line carrying it out.
My federal/SLED experience spans OMB Circular A-123, FMR/FIAR, Yellow Book/GAGAS, Single Audit readiness, DCAA/FAR awareness, SOX, GFEBS and federal financial-systems reconciliation, Manual Obligations, GPC reconciliation, CAP remediation, SOPs, process narratives, dashboards, and Excel-enabled compliance tracking.
What I offer clients is a senior, principal-led practice that takes their compliance obligations seriously without making the work feel heavier than it has to be. I write the documentation I would want to inherit. I run the close the way I would want it run if I owned the company. And I treat every engagement, federal or commercial, with the same standard of evidence.
— Rashidat N. Turner, CPA, MBA, MSA · Life Insurance Producer License · Founder & Principal
How we work
A working method built around evidence.
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Listen & scope
We start with a confidential conversation — your environment, your obligations, your timeline, and the specific outcome you need to be able to point to.
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Diagnose
A focused diagnostic against the governing framework — A-123, Green Book, GAGAS, Uniform Guidance, or SF 1408 — with a written readiness memo.
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Design & document
Controls, SOPs, RCMs, and CAPs designed to operate — and documented to be defended. Every artifact is built to be picked up by a reviewer cold.
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Operate & sustain
Implementation support, evidence runs, and the cadence work that keeps the environment audit-ready between engagements, not just during them.
Engage the practice
Tell us what needs to hold up under review.
Every engagement starts with a confidential conversation. Share the framework, the timeline, and the outcome you need. We will respond with a scoped path forward.
For a faster response, include:
- Your organization type: agency, prime, nonprofit, grant recipient, GovCon, or small business
- The framework or issue: A-123, Single Audit, Yellow Book, DCAA/FAR, vCFO, close, controls, or CAP remediation
- The deadline, audit date, proposal date, board meeting, or decision point
- The deliverable you need: memo, SOP, dashboard, RCM, CAP, workpaper package, or advisory cadence