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"A-133 audit" is the old name for what is now the Single Audit. The rules moved into the Uniform Guidance, but the requirement is real above $1M in federal spending. We check whether you cross the line and run the audit end to end.
If a funder or your board has told you that you need an "A-133 audit," the term is dated but the requirement is real. A-133 was the OMB circular that governed audits of federal award recipients. It was superseded by the Uniform Guidance, 2 CFR Part 200, effective December 26, 2014, and the audit it required is now called the Single Audit.
The rules did not disappear; they moved into the Uniform Guidance and were updated. What still matters is whether your federal spending crosses the threshold, and what the audit looks at once it does.
One engagement, three pieces of scope — plus the schedule that ties it all together.
Audited under Government Auditing Standards. The same financial-statement work you would normally have done, performed to the federal standard.
Each major program tested against the OMB Compliance Supplement. The size of the audit scales with the number of programs that have to be tested.
Your internal controls over compliance with federal requirements — how you make sure the rules are followed, not just whether they were on the day we tested.
We file the complete reporting package — financials, SEFA, and the auditor's report — with the <a href="https://www.fac.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="color:#f6b800;">Federal Audit Clearinghouse</a> before the deadline.
We check whether you actually cross the $1,000,000 threshold (not every organization told to get one does), then size the audit around the major programs that have to be tested.
We coordinate with your finance team and audit both the financial statements and compliance, in one engagement instead of two.
We deliver the reporting package to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse before the deadline — 30 days after the auditor's report, or 9 months after fiscal year end, whichever comes first.
Single Audit work runs alongside your federal grant compliance and the Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards. One CPA team for the whole picture.
There is no flat price, because the audit scales with your federal footprint. The main drivers are how many major programs get tested, your total federal expenditures and whether any single program crosses the $1,000,000 Type A threshold, how clean your records are going in (a reconciled SEFA and documented controls shorten fieldwork; gaps lengthen it), and how much funding you pass through to subrecipients, which adds monitoring scope.
Tell us your total federal spend and your program list and we will give you a fixed quote before you commit. Year-round, staying inside the rules is federal grant compliance work, and the Single Audit is the annual check on it.
The finished reporting package goes to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse, and the deadline is whichever comes first: 30 days after you receive the auditor's report, or 9 months after your fiscal year ends. Missing it can put current and future federal funding at risk, which is why the timeline drives everything.
Source: 2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F (Uniform Guidance) — Federal Audit Clearinghouse
The Single Audit requirement reaches non-federal entities that expend federal awards. The list is broad:
Two pieces sit alongside the audit and have their own pages: the schedule your team prepares (see our SEFA audit page) and getting ready before fieldwork (see audit readiness assessment).
Tell us roughly what you spent in federal funds this year and your list of programs, and we will tell you whether a Single Audit is required and what it would take.
You should not have to guess whether the A-133 requirement applies to you. A short look at your federal spending for the year answers it, and if you are over the line, we will walk you through what the Single Audit will involve before you commit to anything.
Documents come later, only if you move ahead. Confidential, no obligation.
