Services.

Research support, data systems, financial analysis, and accounting operations. We agree on the deliverables, schedule, and fixed fee before work begins.

Research &
development.

Planning experiments, developing proposals, and helping teams manage federal awards through final reporting.

For: research laboratories, universities, and small businesses pursuing or administering awards from the Department of Energy, NASA, NSF, and other federal sponsors.

Deliverables

  • Technical investigation, feasibility assessment, and experiment planning
  • Test and measurement plans, data reduction, and results documentation
  • Proposal narratives, budgets, and justifications
  • Solicitation compliance review, package assembly, and submission support
  • Project scopes, schedules, milestones, and progress reports
  • Coordination with subrecipients and teaming partners
  • Sponsor reporting and project closeout
  • SBIR/STTR readiness and research administration procedures

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Technical &
data systems.

Consolidating data that lives in five places, automating reports someone rebuilds by hand every month, and making the results easier to check and use.

For: teams working with scattered data, manual reporting, or systems that produce conflicting numbers.

Deliverables

  • Data consolidation across accounting, CRM, payroll, and operational systems
  • Data cleanup, deduplication, normalization, and quality improvement plans
  • Automated recurring reports
  • Power BI, Excel, and technical dashboards
  • Documented metrics and operational performance analysis
  • Connected sensing and telemetry workflows
  • Analysis of a specific operational or financial question
  • Excel model rebuilds with traceable calculations
  • Reporting templates, reconciliation procedures, and handover training

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Financial analysis
& reporting.

Explaining what changed in the numbers, why it changed, and what it means for the next budget, pricing decision, or hiring plan.

For: owners weighing costs and growth, and organizations accountable to boards, lenders, or funders.

Deliverables

  • Monthly, quarterly, board, and lender reporting
  • Annual budgets and budget-to-actual analysis
  • 13-week and 12-month cash-flow forecasts
  • KPI and trend reporting
  • Unit economics, pricing, and profitability analysis
  • Break-even, scenario, and financing models
  • Working capital and accounts-receivable aging analysis
  • Grant and restricted-fund financial reporting

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Accounting &
contract compliance.

Routine accounting and the records behind it, including project costs, contract billing, and supporting schedules.

For: businesses and nonprofits that need reliable monthly numbers, and primes, subcontractors, and grant subrecipients with contract-specific accounting requirements.

Deliverables

  • Transaction recording, monthly close, and financial statements
  • Bank and credit card reconciliations
  • Accounts payable, accounts receivable, and vendor records
  • Payroll coordination with your provider
  • Chart of accounts cleanup; QuickBooks Online and Xero setup or migration
  • Sales tax, B&O, and 1099 preparation support
  • Job costing, indirect cost rates, and cost pool structure
  • Timekeeping procedures and segregation of allowable and unallowable costs
  • Contract billing, invoice preparation, and supporting records
  • Grant and subrecipient reporting
  • SAM.gov and WEBS registration support
  • Procurement-readiness assessments and third-party review preparation
  • Internal controls, policies, and procedures

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HVAC.

MSA’s expertise also includes heating, ventilation, and air conditioning.

Tell us about your building or system, and we’ll discuss how we can help.

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Support for
your lab.

Plan the installation, setup, and training your university lab needs.

Discuss deployment planning, sensor installation, dashboard and data onboarding, documentation, and ongoing support. Services are scoped and quoted separately from hardware, with availability and timing confirmed as SashSense develops.

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Discuss your lab’s needs

Scope boundaries.

MSA provides non-attest services only and is not a licensed CPA firm. We do not perform:

  • Financial statement audits
  • Reviews or compilations
  • Any engagement producing an assurance opinion
  • Attestation engagements of any kind
  • Legal advice or representation
  • Investment advice or securities recommendations

Working with your CPA.

We help prepare the reconciled accounts, supporting schedules, and records your CPA or auditor needs.

We can coordinate with them directly and help answer requests for information.

We’ll flag any part of the engagement that needs a licensed CPA.

Talk through your project

Our first call is free and takes thirty minutes. If we can help, we’ll send a written, fixed-fee proposal. If someone else would be a better fit, we’ll suggest a referral where we can.

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