James Contrella

Maher Duessel is a CPA firm founded in 1989 to provide high-caliber audit, tax, and consulting services to clients in the governmental and non-profit sectors, and our passion and commitment has led Maher Duessel to become a leading regional accounting firm. With offices in Pittsburgh, Butler, Harrisburg, State College, Erie and Lancaster, we have the largest staff dedicated solely to governmental, non-profit, and Single Audit issues in Pennsylvania. Our mission statement, Pursuing the Profession While Promoting the Public Good®, reflects our philosophy of providing expert technical services that help our clients create a better community. We offer the personalized service of a regional accounting firm with the added value of national technical expertise on the latest regulatory changes and compliance issues in public sector accounting. Maher Duessel is unique among Pennsylvania auditing firms in that virtually every hour of our practice is devoted to serving the non-profit and governmental sectors. We offer a broad range of services for our clients including financial statement audits, audits in accordance with Government Auditing Standards, assistance with Government Finance Officer Association (GFOA) Award program reports, Single Audits, grant compliance audits, IRS Form 990/990PF/990T and other tax filings, state charitable registration filings, agreed upon procedures attestation reports, forensic auditing, employee benefit plan audits and related tax filings, internal control examinations, arbitrage rebate calculations, debt refunding verification reporting, and borrowing base and debt statement preparation. We also provide our clients a full range of accounting consulting services including financial statement preparation, audit assistance, and assistance with Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) and Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) implementation, among other services.