Accounting, Tax, and Advisory Services for the Life Sciences
AAFCPAs provides accounting, advisory, tax, and assurance services to small to mid-sized life science organizations. This includes start-ups and venture-backed companies along with those seeking national and global expansion. These companies depend on us to provide the industry insight needed at each stage of their growth story, from capital acquisition through initial public offering. Clients include discerning pharmaceutical, research, biotech, digital health, and medical device companies along with contract research organizations, therapeutics, and AI-driven healthcare solutions including NeuroMetrix, Inc., Prapela, Inc., Psyche Systems, Inc., SoniVie Inc., Medicem, Inc., Lab Shares Newton, LLC, GRO Bioscience, AffyImmune Therapeutics, Inc., and Totus Medicines.
Gain counsel from senior professionals with Big 4 and national firm experience who have advised mid-sized, multinational SEC registrants. We bring lessons learned to emerging companies now navigating the accounting and tax complexities of revenue recognition, development costs, share-based compensation, and complex equity or debt structures in venture capital transactions.
Experience our integrated service approach, which unites a full range of specialized services that can help you navigate and overcome financial challenges while capitalizing on valuable opportunities. Let us manage complex multistate, cross-border, and international accounting and taxation issues while presenting strategies to help you grow and preserve cash through tax credits, deductions, and incentives. While our ideas and experiences are big, we pride ourselves on the fact that we are a locally grown firm that has expanded to provide nationwide reach. It’s no wonder our clients consider us an attractive alternative to national CPA firms.
Why Biomedical and Life Science Companies Choose AAFCPAs
Depth of Team
- Partner with a best-value CPA and consulting firm that offers the strength of a 325+ multi-disciplinary team of CPAs, tax attorneys, consulting CFOs, controllers, data analysts, wealth advisors, and business process and IT security professionals able to help you navigate the complexities in running a sustainable, high-performing organization.
- Gain a turnkey finance function through our Outsourced Accounting & Fractional CFO practice. This includes right-sized, outsourced accounting and advisory solutions from cloud-based transactional accounting to high-level CFO deliverables to optimize your finance function and address critical financial processes.
- Work with a firm that specializes exclusively in financial statement audits for private companies and has been voluntarily certified by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), which establishes auditing and related professional practice standards for registered public accounting firms in the preparation and issuance of audit reports. AAFCPAs elected to register as a PCAOB firm because we are committed to maintaining the highest standards while protecting investors and furthering public interest in the preparation of informative, accurate, and independent audit reports.
Advisory and Tax for Life Sciences at all Lifecycle Stages
- Benefit from second firm solutions such as SOX 404 management assessments, enterprise risk assessments, cybersecurity risk assessments, and Vulnerability Management as a Service (VMaaS) in instances where your CPA firm either lacks resources or has auditor independence issues.
- Manage and execute buy-side, sell-side, private equity, and internal transactions with the insight and guidance of our integrated Business Transaction Advisory team. If an exit is what you seek, we can help you make the most informed decisions while managing transactions throughout the deal cycle.
- Partner with an independent member of PrimeGlobal, the third largest CPA firm association in the world. Our clients tap into seamless national and global resources on an as needed, pay-as-you-use basis.
- Obtain cost effective in-house tax solutions while on the path to and during IPO including corporate income and sales/use tax advisory and compliance, stock option modeling for executives and founders, and tax provision workpaper preparation and related financial statement footnotes.