Our Services

Employee Benefit Audits
Helping you comply with all ERISA requirements for Form 5500 and meet your fiduciary responsibilities to employee plan members.

Forensic Accounting Services and Litigation Support
Accounting that is suitable for legal review, offering the highest level of assurance, and including the now generally accepted connotation of having been arrived at in a scientific fashion.

401(k) & 403(b) Audits
Our team of dedicated 401(k) and 403(b) auditors will ensure compliance in this complex and dynamic auditing area.

Compliance Audits
For over 30 years, our compliance audit programs have ensured proper reporting of wages, contributions, royalties, licensing fees, etc. and helped fiduciaries maintain ERISA compliance.

Wage and Hour Services
Our Professionals stand ready to assist with wage and hour issues related to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Davis-Bacon and related acts plus state prevailing wage laws (“Little Davis-Bacon Laws”).

Small Business Services
Offering specialized services for small business entrepreneurs to help your business prosper and grow.

Tax Services
Our proactive approach will find the tax strategy that serves you best. We will minimize your taxes while considering possible tax changes.

Forecasts, Projections & Budgeting
We can help ensure your business is secured in the present and prepared for the future with expert financial forecasts, projections and viable budget.

Management Advisory Services
We move beyond traditional accounting services to focus on helping you plan, grow and stay in front of competitors.

Information Technology
Our expert computer consultants will ensure your business gets the right hardware, software and training to meet your growing needs.

Payroll Compliance Audits

Trust fund sponsors, administrators, attorneys, auditors, actuaries and participants are all anxious to ensure their particular trust funds are receiving all of the contributions they are entitled pursuant to the funds’ collective bargaining and participation agreements. A systematic or target aggressive payroll compliance audit program will normally ensure employer compliance with the contractual terms mutually set forth during collective bargaining. Without a payroll compliance audit program in place there is really no independent way to ensure employers are in full compliance. Payroll compliance audits help to ensure that all contractors are paying wages and fringe benefits consistent with each other therby "Leaving the Playing Field", especially when bidding work.

By engaging LaPadula, Carlson + Co you can rest assured our dedicated team of highly trained compliance auditors will perform your payroll audits in a timely and non-disruptive manner using all of their professional skills and expertise to ensure a fair and accurate audit is done. We perform hundreds of payroll compliance audits annually which lends to our effectiveness.

Below we have listed a few examples of why compliance payroll audits make sense.

Payroll compliance audits serve as a strong deterrent against employers non-compliance
Both the Internal Revenue Service and DOL encourage trust funds to perform payroll compliance audits
Collective Bargaining and participation agreements are misinterpreted
Hours worked are calculated incorrectly
Employee classifications are improperly applied
Clerical errors
Alter-ego companies
Territorial misinterpretations
Minimum or maximum hours are not reported correctly
Employment hire and termination dates are incorrect
Non-union employees performing covered work

Contact Info

Florida Office:
2 Alhambra Plaza
Suite 1100
Coral Gables, FL
33134

Florida Phone:
305.529.9300

New York Metro Office:
11 Penn Plaza
Fifth Floor
New York, NY
10001

New York Phone:
212.946.2728

Toll Free:
1.877.529.9301

Fax:
305.529.0012

Email:
info@lapadula.com

Management Team

Daniel LaPadula CPA, CFF: Managing Partner

Sharon Carlson CPA, CFF: Partner

Gustavo Riveira CPA, CFF: Audit Partner

Santiago Garcia:
Audit Department Manager

James Gargiulo CPA, CFF: Managing Principal New York Metro Office