Accounting Rigor. Real Market Experience.

CPA advisory for finance teams, founders, traders, and owner-led companies that need reporting records organized before an SEC, investor, lender, tax, or transaction deadline.

Capital Markets Advisory

Capital markets work starts with evidence: reporting support, transaction files, SOX documentation, derivative tax records, and investor-ready schedules organized before a regulatory, lender, investor, tax, or transaction deadline.

Capital Markets CPA Support for Messy Reporting Moments

This page is for companies, finance leaders, founders, active investors, and operators facing a concrete reporting event: a financing round, investor diligence request, lender package, SEC reporting project, SOX readiness push, derivative or futures tax question, or transaction record cleanup.

We start by mapping the records behind the deadline. That means trial balances, support schedules, equity ledgers, board or investor reporting, broker statements, Section 1256 detail, revenue and debt schedules, lease records, internal-control evidence, and prior auditor or diligence requests.

Audit and attest services for SEC issuers must be performed by qualified PCAOB-registered firms. KAS CPA's role is management-side CPA advisory: accounting cleanup, technical support, documentation, tax coordination, and investor-ready file preparation.

15+Years Experience
CPA
Series 65(Passed)
SOX404 ICFR Expert

Records We Help Get Investor-Ready

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SEC Reporting Advisory

Management-side accounting and disclosure support for teams preparing SEC-facing records, lender packages, board reporting, or audit support files. We help organize the support before the review window gets compressed.

  • 10-K / 10-Q support schedules and disclosure tie-outs
  • SOX 404 readiness and management-side control evidence
  • Revenue, debt, lease, equity, and related-party support
  • SEC comment-response workpaper organization
02

Derivatives & Complex Instruments

Tax and accounting record support for options, futures, swaps, structured products, hedging activity, and active-investor reporting where the broker statement is only the beginning of the workpaper.

  • Section 1256 contract taxation
  • Mark-to-market elections (Section 475)
  • Hedging vs. speculation classification
  • Straddle, wash-sale, and transaction-detail review
03

IPO Readiness & Transaction Advisory

Pre-transaction accounting support for companies preparing for outside capital, diligence, acquisition discussions, or a more formal reporting environment.

  • Quality-of-records and data-room preparation
  • GAAP cleanup and technical accounting workpapers
  • Investor, lender, and buyer diligence support
  • Post-transaction close and reporting cleanup
04

Founder, Equity & Investor Records

CPA support where capital markets questions overlap with founder tax, equity compensation, 83(b) elections, QSBS posture, grants, SAFEs, option exercises, and investor updates.

  • Cap table and equity support schedules
  • 83(b), option, and restricted-stock tax records
  • Investor reporting and monthly close discipline
  • K-1, brokerage, and liquidity-event documentation

Regulated Markets Background

Kurt brings an extensive background in regulated markets, including successfully passing the Series 65 securities examination. This level of market fluency is rarely found in a CPA firm, and it informs the technical depth behind every capital markets engagement.

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Bottom Line

What capital markets advisory support is available?

Short answer: Kurt Simmons CPA provides management-side capital markets CPA support for reporting records, SOX readiness, investor diligence, transaction planning, derivative tax records, and accounting cleanup tied to growth or liquidity events.

  • Investor-ready financial records, support schedules, and diligence organization.
  • Accounting and tax input for financing, acquisitions, exits, and equity compensation.
  • Management-side support that respects SEC, PCAOB, legal, and investment-adviser boundaries.

Ready to Discuss Your Situation?

Schedule a consultation to review the reporting deadline, records, source documents, and advisory boundary before the capital markets issue turns into a scramble.

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