Full Spectrum of Compliance Services

E&K offers a comprehensive selection of compliance services that can be tailored to meet the needs of any organization from multi-million dollar campaigns and PACS to brand new, start-up congressional campaign committees.

E&K's clients include:

Political Action Committees (PACs) Representing:

• Trade associations
• Membership organizations
• Labor organizations
• Corporations
• Leaderships

Elected Officials:

• Members of Congress
• State candidates
• Local candidates
• Political contenders
• Campaign committees

Others:

• 527s

E&K's flexible portfolio of services allows clients to do as much of the day-to-day compliance work as they want in-house with the security of knowing that E&K's team of compliance professionals is always present to review your work and to take some of the more headache-inducing tasks off of your plate such as reconciling your fundraising data with bank accounts and records, producing balance sheets and profit and loss statements, and reviewing and spot-checking your data for accuracy. The E&K team looks for mistakes, suggests corrective actions, analyzes the details, and makes recommendations where further reconciliation activity is required. E&K is also available to prepare first drafts of FEC reports, to provide reports to legal counsel for review, and to file all reports in a timely fashion.

Clients can also opt for a customized program that meets their specific needs. Clients can choose from a wide array of compliance consulting services, including:

FEC Reporting

• Prepare all required FEC reports.
• Prepare all FEC Amendments if needed.
• Prepare all responses to FEC inquiries.

Accounting, Compliance, and Reconciliation

• Review, process and track all contributions.
• Oversee and / or generate all disbursements.
• Reconcile accounts monthly.
• Coordinate with accountants and / or financial institutions.
• Coordinate with attorneys.
• Review contributions for compliance.
• Prepare letters for missing information, redesignations, reattributions, etc.
• Draft and send thank you letters to contributors.
• Prepare monthly financial status reports for principals.

Past Cycle Audits

• Review previous cycle(s) FEC reports for compliance.
• Reconcile previous cycle(s) reports to financial statements.
• Prepare any necessary FEC amendments.

FEC Audit Representation

• Perform pre-audit review to determine level of exposure.
• Coordinate and gather all additional financial information determined to be necessary.
• Draft interim and final responses to FEC finding.
• Prepare all necessary amendments.
• Work hand-in-hand with the FEC's audit staff, providing information as requested, researching legal questions and presenting legal arguments.

Database Management

• Integrate and / or convert database to new FEC reporting systems.
• Purge duplicate records periodically.
• Prepare and provide weekly or monthly updates of database.
• Develop a meaningful coding system for all contribution and disbursement records.
• Prompt data entry and feedback of database updates to ensure accuracy and avoid excessive contributions.

Communications, Consulting & Strategic Planning

• Prepare mission statements, statements of purpose, and other documents to focus your campaign.
• Develop tactics and budgets to achieve campaign goals. Conduct on-site visit to review systems that are in place.

In addition, we often offer to provide on-site compliance training for on-the-ground staffers.

Other Consulting Services

• Research and prepare contributor profile reports (e.g., using Lexis-Nexis).
• Prepare call lists for principals and / or staff principals during telephone colicitation sessions.
• Draft direct mail solicitation letters and other donor communications.
• Prepare "Personal Financial Disclosure Reports".
• Provide on-site compliance training for campaign staff.
• Review financial and managerial systems to ensure integration within your organization as a whole.
• Prepare mission statements, statements of purpose, and other organization-wide documents.
• Develop budgets to achieve organizational goals.