Financial & Accounting Services
Financial & Accounting Services
Let us use our unrivaled financial experience and insight to help you find success in every facet of your business – today, tomorrow, and in the decades ahead.
Our Team.
Having served as a trusted partner to independent, community-based communications providers for more than 60 years, JSI understands the unprecedented amount of pressure that our clients and other companies in this industry are facing today – particularly when it comes to boosting bottom lines, limiting expenses, and finding new sources of revenue.
Discover today how our market-leading Financial & Accounting team can help your company to find its financial footing and achieve both its short- and long-term business objectives.
Our Services.
To learn more about the range of essential services that our team offers, please select any of the service groupings listed below.
Accounting
Continuing Property Records (CPRs) Service
Cost Separations Studies
JSI’s team of certified public accountants (CPAs) has a broad range of operating experience, specialized industry knowledge, and unmatched expertise to help our clients whenever the need arises.
Whether on a temporary or long-term outsourcing basis, the JSI staff continuously strives to deliver the highest-quality financial and accounting services possible for our clients.
Notably, our key services include:
• Financial reporting
• FCC/USAC audit support, including Mock Audits for the FCC Form 499, Payment Quality Assurance, and BCAP audits
• Affiliate transactions
• Review of accounting process and procedures
• Part 32 account assignments and classifications
• Affiliate and non-regulated service offerings
• Rate case analysis and representation
• Accounting seminars
• Accounting manuals
• Financial reporting
• FCC/USAC audit support, including Mock Audits for the FCC Form 499, Payment Quality Assurance, and BCAP audits
• Affiliate transactions
• Review of accounting process and procedures
• Part 32 account assignments and classifications
• Affiliate and non-regulated service offerings
• Rate case analysis and representation
• Accounting seminars
• Accounting manuals
For additional information about our financial forecasting services, please contact Steve Meltzer or Brian Sullivan in JSI’s Maryland office at 301-459-7590, or simply click here to be connected with a senior member of our team.
If your company currently lacks a comprehensive CPR system, then JSI’s market-leading team of experts is here to provide you with the critical record-keeping assistance that you need.
CPRs not only play an important role in supporting a communication provider’s ongoing operations and strategic planning – by providing a complete record of all property units, including their locations, quantities, related costs, and equipment classifications based on use – they are essential to remaining in compliance with key record-keeping requirements established by:
• The Federal Communications Commission (FCC);
• The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Rural Utilities Service (RUS); and
• Select federal grant programs.
• The Federal Communications Commission (FCC);
• The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Rural Utilities Service (RUS); and
• Select federal grant programs.
For 60 years, JSI has been the preferred partner of hundreds of independent communications providers across the United States, providing expert advice and support to those companies to help them find success in every aspect of their businesses.
Today, our team has decades of experience in developing and maintaining comprehensive CPRs that give our clients the kind of detailed accounts of their assets that they require to meet their immediate needs, while at the same time better preparing them for any audits and disasters that might arise in the future.
Our team offers communications providers a comprehensive range of CPR services and solutions to meet their specific needs.
Notably, the types of CPRs that we frequently prepare for clients include:
• Central office CPRs
• Cable and wire CPRs
• Competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) CPRs
• General support facilities (GSF) CPRs
• Headend CPRs
• Internet CPRs
• Wireless CPRs
• Subsidiary CPRs
• Non-regulated CPRs In addition, our team offers clients a comprehensive set of CPR services, including, among others:
• Conducting physical inventories
• Establishing CPRs
• Maintaining CPRs on an annual, quarterly, or monthly basis
• Tracking additions and retirements
• Reviewing client-produced CPRs
Notably, the types of CPRs that we frequently prepare for clients include:
• Central office CPRs
• Cable and wire CPRs
• Competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) CPRs
• General support facilities (GSF) CPRs
• Headend CPRs
• Internet CPRs
• Wireless CPRs
• Subsidiary CPRs
• Non-regulated CPRs In addition, our team offers clients a comprehensive set of CPR services, including, among others:
• Conducting physical inventories
• Establishing CPRs
• Maintaining CPRs on an annual, quarterly, or monthly basis
• Tracking additions and retirements
• Reviewing client-produced CPRs
For additional information about our financial forecasting services, please contact Denise Whittington in JSI’s Maryland office at 301-459-7590, or simply click here to be connected with a senior member of our team.
For six decades, JSI has been known throughout the industry for its unwavering dedication to independent communications providers as well as its unmatched expertise concerning cost separations and cost studies.
Today, JSI remains the undisputed industry leader in cost separations studies, with more than 1,000 years of collective experience in cost study preparation across our team. Moreover, JSI currently produces more annual cost studies than any other known consulting firm, and our company is the largest provider of cost study data to the National Exchange Carrier Association (NECA).
JSI has a deep understanding of the complexities of telephone networks and financial systems, which allows our team to accurately maximize your cost study results. We have had the opportunity, moreover, to work with companies of all sizes – with some as small as 250 access lines and others as large as 125,000+ access lines. Additionally, our team has an exceptionally large database of client results, which we can use to benchmark your studies and identify areas of potential improvement.
JSI understands the complexities of telephone networks and financial systems, allowing us to accurately maximize your cost study results as well as your Legacy USF support.
JSI can assist with:
• Jurisdictional Cost Studies
• Competitive Cost Studies
• Economic Cost Studies
• UNE Prices
• Cost Versus Average Schedule Feasibility Studies
• Pro Forma Studies
• Cost Allocation Manuals
• Access Tariff Rate Development & Filing
• Average Schedule Settlements
• Lead Lag Studies
JSI can assist with:
• Jurisdictional Cost Studies
• Competitive Cost Studies
• Economic Cost Studies
• UNE Prices
• Cost Versus Average Schedule Feasibility Studies
• Pro Forma Studies
• Cost Allocation Manuals
• Access Tariff Rate Development & Filing
• Average Schedule Settlements
• Lead Lag Studies
For additional information about our financial forecasting services, please contact Steve Meltzer or Brian Sullivan in JSI’s Maryland office at 301-459-7590, or simply click here to be connected with a senior member of our team.
