To provide you with the best service and value possible, DHA continuously evaluates opportunities to streamline the preparation of tax returns and other deliverables. We wish to provide greater value by being more available and proactive with advice and solutions for our clients, whilst keeping our costs, and therefore fees, under control. We are now employing a number of strategies which we hope will enable us to do this and remain competitive.
One of those strategies is to hire experienced offshore professionals through a staffing company dedicated to the accounting industry. We currently have a relationship with Entigrity Solutions LLC which provides qualified professionals who are interviewed and hired by DHA leaders, work solely for our firm, share our company’s core values, work and train closely with our onshore team, use DHA systems and processes, and work remotely from modern and secured offices in India. The firm operates to extremely high ethical, privacy and security standards.
Entigrity works with several hundred accounting firms and is a credible partner for offshoring staffing. We completed our due diligence before hiring Entigrity and have confidence that they follow the highest standard of security and confidentiality. In addition, we have secured confidentiality terms with Entigrity to maintain the confidentiality of your information and have taken precautions to determine that they have appropriate procedures in place to prevent unauthorized access to, or transfer of, your confidential information. For example, while Entigrity offices are in India, staff members are remotely working on computers located within the DHA offices in Chaska. Workstations are specifically set up to prevent the transfer of data from remote workstations to local machines.
We have wholeheartedly embraced our Entigrity staff members as part of our business and the DHA team, and we are enjoying becoming a global organization. Entigrity staff members receive the same training and use the same processes as our onshore staff, and all client work adheres to our strict quality standards and is reviewed by a CPA before client delivery. We encourage our clients to engage with our Entigrity team members in the same ways you engage with other members of our staff, just as we do.
Based on regulations issued by the Internal Revenue Service, we must obtain your express written permission to disclose your tax return information to a preparer outside the United States. By providing authorization and signing the consent form, you are allowing us to use this service to assist in the data entry & preparation portion of your tax returns. Electing to leverage these services is a choice. We look forward to serving you by preparing your taxes in either situation.
If you have any questions regarding the Consent form or our relationship with Entigrity, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Written by Erin Barto, DHA CPAs