Higher education institutions are persistently faced with the challenge of providing a top quality education and with tuition increases continually outpacing inflation, there is pressure to meet these challenges within budget. Boards of Trustees and key stakeholders demand reliable and timely financial information to make strategic and capital planning decisions. Audit committees are increasing demands to monitor and effectively control the institutional risk environment. Accounting and reporting for extremely competitive research dollars have been made even more complex and regulated. SMART can help provide institutions to successfully identify and mitigate financial risks to enable them to operate in an efficiently controlled financial environment.

SMART can help institutions capitalize on these opportunities through:

• Financial Operations and Administrative Services
• Compensation and Benefits
• Information Risk Management and Security

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• Institutional risk assessments • Outsourced/Co-Sourced internal audit function • SAS 112 preparedness

• Standard Operating Procedure development and implementation • Business continuity management and staffing • Strategic planning, benchmarking, and executive reporting

• Research administration, including pre-/post-award and indirect cost preparation   and reporting • Facilities planning and administration including capital plan development, financial project   management and reporting as well as construction auditing • Workflow development and process re-engineering