The insurance industry is experiencing unprecedented evolution. Knowledgeable and experienced professionals can help you navigate the complex regulatory and operating challenges by providing services like tax, audit and regulatory compliance, as well as mergers and acquisitions, valuation, forensics and technology consulting. With a team supporting you, you'll feel confident you're making informed business decisions that drive your company forward.
Our insurance professionals understand the industry, and they'll work with you to tackle your challenges while increasing operational efficiency. Our service is personal, and you can expect responsiveness from our team and access to our partners and staff. We'll use our experience and knowledge to strengthen your business.
Our experienced and knowledgeable advisors guide insurance companies, as well as regulators, through complex challenges in this highly regulated and competitive industry. We are inspired to meet more than just your compliance requirements. Let us help you with your unique business issues and prosperity.
The insurance industry has so much to consider, from compliance to regulations and more. At Eide Bailly, we're here to help you every step of the way.
The challenges insurance companies experience go beyond just compliance. We can help you gain more control over taxes with less stress and maximum savings. Our CPAs and business advisors are dedicated to the insurance industry and understand how important it is to stay in compliance and make informed business decisions.
We provide financial and operational audits, tax and consulting to our insurance clients. Understanding your organization's challenges and opportunities is important to us, and we'll work with you throughout the year, so you always have an advocate by your side.
Some of the professional services we provide for insurance companies include audit and assurance, business valuation, cybersecurity, fraud and forensics, tax advisory and tech consulting.
When engaging an accounting firm to provide audit, tax and business advisory services, you should look for professionals who have experience with both statutory and GAAP accounting. These professionals should also know the ins and outs of reinsurance, actuaries and loss reserving, and investments, in addition to confidently being able to guide you through regulatory requirements.
We've worked with insurance companies for more than 60 years, and our team is knowledgeable and experienced with the unique aspects of auditing an insurance company. We focus on providing value beyond traditional assurance services, too. We view these services as an opportunity to help you improve your organization’s financial performance and profitability while strengthening your business and administrative practices.
Our knowledgeable team can provide affordable solutions to control risk exposure and minimize costs. Captives, risk retention groups and other alternative risk management solutions are opportunities for companies in various industries to be engaged in effectively controlling their risk exposure and minimizing costs related to their insurance coverage.
With that in mind, your organization needs experienced, insurance-savvy accountants and advisors who not only know your business but the industry, too. Professionals can help you with your tax and audit compliance needs, as well as help you navigate regulations in establishing new captive insurance companies and working with your chosen management company or connecting you to reputable captive managers.
Our professionals are licensed as approved captive auditors with several U.S. insurance departments and Puerto Rico. We offer virtual audit and tax experience for certain micro-captives and tailor our approach to your needs on larger pure, association, protected cell or risk retention groups. When you work with us, you can expect exceptional service in a timely, efficient manner that provides you a competitive solution.
Retirement and employee benefit plans are often a vital component to providing a well-rounded benefits package for your employees. However, benefit plans come with many types of compliance and regulatory issues. Failing to address these issues in a timely manner can mean big headaches down the road.
It’s important to have a team on your side that is specifically trained in employee benefit and retirement plans. Audit and advisory services can be beneficial to all filers and their plan types.
You can expect quality service when you work with us and we’ve established a reputation of providing superior work. We belong to the AICPA EBP Audit Quality Center and adhere to the membership requirements of training and inspection. Further, as auditor of over 800 plans (part of the top 15 nationally), our experienced staff have seen typical plan compliance missteps and we can guide you through the correction process.
Audits are required for plans with 100 or more participants. View a table of the 2018 employee benefit plan contributions.
Reduce risk and improve operational performance in your insurance company with an internal audit. By strategically evaluating and managing risk, it can decrease your stress and improve:
Internal audit is a vital component of governance and strategic risk management in the insurance industry. It provides an additional element to risk assessment across your organization, facilitates improved processes and controls, address regulatory or other compliance issues, and ensure processes are efficient through the COSO framework.
Our internal audit professionals bring strong process, procedure, internal control and risk management experience to your organization. We bridge these skills with specialized insight related to risk and compliance and specific industry knowledge, to help your organization reduce risk and improve operational efficiency.
Ensure that your controls are appropriately designed and effective with a Service Organization Control (SOC) report. You are trusted to handle important data, and you want to assure your clients that data is protected, and the information you provide them is accurate and complete. A SOC report is an independent examination of your internal controls that helps assess and address risks. These reports can only be conducted by independent certified public accounting firms. By following guidelines established by the AICPA, SOC reports can provide confidence in your internal controls and help develop best practices.
Eide Bailly’s SOC team includes experienced Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) and Certified Information Systems Auditors (CISAs) who specialize in identifying and accessing internal controls. We can perform examinations of both SOC 1 and SOC 2 reports. As a top 20 CPA firm in the nation, we have access to resources from a variety of industries and specialties, ensuring you have the support you need to proactively address challenges and opportunities.
Protect your policyholders with our full suite of actuarial services. Actuarial assumptions are crucial in helping companies determine what premiums they must charge to remain profitable and ensuring reserves are adequately reported. An external review of the assumptions, methodology and conclusions reached by a company’s actuary can be helpful in providing insights into the quality and efficiencies of the examination review, and effectively communicated to your Company.
Eide Bailly actuaries have the necessary qualifications as well as the expertise to perform full or limited scope reviews, assist in pricing model reviews or other consulting needs. Our actuaries take the time to understand the unique characteristics of a company’s reserving or pricing practices.
Regardless of your unique insurance industry challenges, our team of experienced advisors are dedicated to guiding you through them. Let’s get started.
Interested in learning more about growth and success, compliance issues, the year ahead and more? Join us for one or all of our educational/informational webinars designed to keep our clients, colleagues and friends informed on innovative business and tax strategies. The tools and resources presented will help individuals and organizations make informed decisions and remain successful in a competitive and ever-changing marketplace.
The insurance industry is highly regulated and competitive.
In this challenging business environment, it’s important to make informed business decisions and stay compliant.