The Consult-AGE
Audit · Tax · Advisory
Audit, tax and advisory for businesses, nonprofits and institutions on both sides of the Atlantic. Two continents, one standard.
Numbers either build trust or erode it. We architect the kind that build it: controls that hold under scrutiny, reporting that convinces, finance teams that keep pace with ambition.
Everything we deliver is built for the moment someone looks closely: an auditor, a regulator, a lender, a board.
Audit support, attestation readiness, remediation and quality review.
Outsourced and co-sourced internal audit, controls testing and compliance reviews, delivered by our Ghana practice.
Outsourced accounting, reporting, close discipline and finance function design.
Tax preparation and planning, payroll and statutory compliance in both markets.
Messy books made audit-ready: catch-up bookkeeping and reconciliation clean-up for our US clients.
Workshops for founders, finance teams and boards, delivered by our Ghana practice.
One standard of care, with the approach fitted to each market's rules. Pick your side of the Atlantic.
Audit support · CFO advisory · Tax & payroll · Clean-ups · Fundraising readiness · Government
Statutory audit · Internal audit · Tax & GRA compliance · SSNIT & PAYE payroll · Bookkeeping · Training · Regulated FIs
The Consult-AGE is a premiere tax consultancy. Not only are they knowledgeable but equally responsive and proactive in making sure my business affairs are in order. I highly recommend them for anyone's business.
The Consult-AGE demonstrated exceptional professionalism and delivered high quality work within a very tight timeline. Their responsiveness and ability to quickly grasp the requirements of the engagement made the process smooth and efficient. Although this was a one-off project, I would gladly work with The Consult-AGE again in the future.
Every business owner needs The Consult-AGE. My experience has been one I will forever be grateful for. I made some mistakes at the start of my business, but they helped me correct everything and get back on the right track, like real pros.
The Consult-AGE has helped our organization feel more confident and secure in our accounting. While managing our accounts, they have been patient in answering all of our questions. Working with them allows us to dedicate more of our mission as an NGO.
We didn't realise how important finances could be in shaping the very structure of our business until working with The Consult-AGE. What started as a simple conversation on taxes turned into eye-opening lessons on strategy, growth and sustainability.
Senior professionals who answer for the outcome, on every engagement.
The Consult-AGE holds IR Global's exclusive Ghana membership for both accounting services and audit & assurance. IR Global connects leading independent firms across the world’s major markets, giving our clients partner-led legal, accountancy and financial expertise wherever their business goes.
Our team trains founders, finance staff and boards on the disciplines behind numbers that hold up: bookkeeping, controls, budgeting and audit readiness. We support incubator and accelerator programs with practical financial training for their founder cohorts.
Proven methodology delivered by senior teams that move faster than large firms.
Decisions in days, not committees. Senior attention on every engagement.
Lending, fintech, banking and investment entities are our core client base.
Our team serves on boards and audit committees. We see controls the way oversight bodies do.
IR Global membership and an ICAG-licensed practice extend our reach across borders.
US GAAS, GAGAS (Yellow Book), ISAs and the IESBA Code of Ethics, as each engagement requires.
We leave client teams stronger than we found them, through training built into how we work.
From our Washington, DC office we serve private businesses, nonprofits and government, with particular depth for companies raising capital and needing a CPA behind their numbers. Work is performed under US GAAS and, where required, GAGAS (Yellow Book).
Support that gets you through audit season with your credibility intact.
A finance function that keeps pace with your growth.
Compliance handled, so surprises stay off your desk.
Messy books, backlogged months, unreconciled accounts: we make them audit-ready.
Smaller organizations get the same senior attention. Scoped to what you need, priced after a conversation, not from a menu.
Investors, lenders and their counsel will pull your financials apart. We prepare companies for that moment with CPA-backed numbers that hold, including Regulation Crowdfunding raises where the SEC requires CPA-reviewed or audited financial statements.
The identifiers, codes and standards behind our federal work.
| Legal name | The Consult-AGE LLC |
|---|---|
| UEI | RLWWRYDMQWQ3 |
| CAGE | 15VN0 |
| SAM.gov | Active, All Awards |
| Structure | LLC, For-Profit |
| Point of contact | info@theconsult-age.com +1 (571) 586-8868 |
| 541211 | Offices of Certified Public Accountants (primary) |
|---|---|
| 541213 | Tax Preparation Services |
| 541214 | Payroll Services |
| 541219 | Other Accounting Services |
Designations as registered in SAM.gov.
Controls design, SOX-style testing support and remediation.
Flexible capacity alongside your in-house function.
Findings closed properly, the first time.
Servicer, counterparty and regulatory compliance reviews.
Catch-up bookkeeping and audit-ready rebuilds after findings.
US GAAS, GAGAS (Yellow Book), ISAs and the IESBA Code of Ethics.
We deliver directly to agencies and institutions, and we subcontract to prime contractors who need audit, internal controls, compliance or financial-management capacity on their contract teams. Registered in SAM.gov and ready to slot into your teaming arrangement.
Before founding The Consult-AGE, our Managing Principal worked inside the audits the U.S. government relies on: federal engagements spanning the financial and defense sectors at KPMG, and audits of systemically important financial institutions. That is the standard of documentation and independence she holds the firm's public-sector work to.
Institutions listed are representative, not exhaustive.
Engagements listed reflect the individual professional experience of firm leadership and are not contracts held by The Consult-AGE LLC.
Capability statement, W-9 and references on request. Procurement inquiries answered within one business day.
An ICAG-licensed practice, established 2022 and headquartered in Dzorwulu, Accra, serving clients across the country. The same standard of care and senior attention as our US work, wherever the engagement takes us.
A firm license from ICAG sits behind every engagement our Ghana practice signs. Chartered Accountants, regulated and accountable, anywhere in the country.
Transparency that builds trust with stakeholders and regulators.
Accurate computations tailored to Ghanaian regulations.
Employees paid accurately and on time, statutory obligations met without fuss.
From day-to-day books to the decisions that shape the business.
Practical sessions that make founders and finance teams self-sufficient.
An internal audit function for organizations of every kind, not only banks.
Banks, microfinance and micro-credit institutions are a core part of our Ghana practice. We go where our clients are, anywhere in the country.
The Consult-AGE is an accounting, audit, tax and advisory firm serving businesses, nonprofits and institutions from Washington, DC and Accra. We align your numbers with your strategy so you can grow with confidence.
To give organizations numbers, controls and counsel that hold up — to auditors, to regulators, to lenders, and to the decisions built on them.
A world where accounts prepared in Accra command the same confidence as accounts prepared in Washington. We exist to make that unremarkable.
Senior professionals who answer for the outcome, on every engagement.
Sharon leads every engagement the firm signs. She is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Washington, DC and Georgia, a Chartered Accountant with a practicing license in Ghana, and a member of the AICPA, with an MBA from Oxford's Saïd Business School.
Her training ground was KPMG, in the United States and in Ghana. Her engagements there included Navient Corporation, Citibank N.A., Claire's, Mitsubishi HVAC and Marel in the US, and Nestlé, British Airways, Kenya Airways, South African Airways, The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Ghana, Ghana Commercial Bank, Gokals Laborex and Ropetec in West Africa, to name a few, alongside federal work for the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and the U.S. Department of Defense (U.S. Army).
She is building The Consult-AGE across two continents: the ICAG-licensed practice in Accra opened in 2022, and the Washington, DC office followed in 2023. She serves on boards and audit committees of regulated and investor-backed companies, is a member of the Institute of Directors, Ghana, and holds IR Global's exclusive Ghana membership for accounting and audit & assurance services.
Exclusive Ghana member for accounting services and for audit & assurance, within a network of 1,500+ member firms across 160+ jurisdictions.
Our Ghana practice holds a firm license from the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana: the body that licenses public accounting practice in the country. Chartered Accountant status sits behind every Ghana engagement we sign.
Our leadership holds membership of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, with CPA licenses held in Washington, DC and Georgia.
Thinking about working here? Hiring updates are posted on our Careers page as roles open.
The Consult-AGE intelligence desk: every signal we are tracking across our two markets, the numbers and deadlines that matter in 2026, field guides in plain English — and the live feeds where the work shows up first.
The One Big Beautiful Bill created federal deductions for qualified tip income and overtime pay, starting with tax year 2025 — so the first returns claiming them are being filed in 2026. Payroll systems need to track both correctly all year.
Source: IRS ↗The effective VAT burden drops to roughly 20% as NHIL and GETFund levies become deductible input tax, and the 1% COVID-19 levy is abolished. Pricing, invoicing and input-credit documentation all need a rework.
Source: Crowe Ghana ↗The standard deduction rises to $16,100 (single) and $32,200 (married filing jointly), and the estate tax exclusion climbs to $15 million. Time to refresh withholding elections and 2026 planning numbers.
Source: IRS IR-2025-103 ↗The 3% retailer and 5% real-estate flat rates are gone. Businesses that lived on the scheme must migrate to standard VAT accounting — full invoice discipline, input-credit tracking and new filing rhythms.
Source: Crowe Ghana ↗Third-party platform reporting reverts to $20,000 and 200 transactions per year, unwinding the $600 threshold. A major paperwork reprieve for casual sellers and small platform businesses.
Source: IRS ↗Goods suppliers now register at GH¢750,000 turnover, up from GH¢200,000 — while the rules for service providers have been tightened. Every Ghana business should re-check where it stands.
Source: VATupdate ↗FinCEN removed beneficial-ownership filing for US-formed companies entirely. Only foreign entities registered to do business in the US still report — a complete reversal of the original Corporate Transparency Act rollout.
Source: FinCEN ↗Fiscal Electronic Devices become mandatory, digital collection extends to cross-border transactions, and the Income Tax Act is being aligned with OECD global-minimum-tax rules. Compliance is going machine-readable.
Source: VATupdate ↗The One Big Beautiful Bill made full first-year expensing permanent for qualified property acquired after January 19, 2025. Equipment-heavy businesses should revisit purchase timing and 2026 projections.
Source: IRS ↗Under SECURE 2.0, employees who earned above the indexed $145,000 wage threshold must make 401(k) catch-up contributions on a Roth basis from 2026. Payroll and plan documents need to be ready.
Source: IRS ↗The 1% levy on electronic transfers was scrapped in 2025, alongside the betting tax. Businesses that priced it into payment flows and payroll disbursements can simplify — and should confirm processors stopped passing it on.
Source: GRA ↗Curated by The Consult-AGE · Updated July 2026 · General information, not advice — talk to us about what lands on your desk.
Figures as published for 2026; thresholds index over time. Confirm your specific position with us before acting.
Twelve months, both markets, one map. Dated items below; the monthly drumbeat rides in the bar underneath.
Close January properly. Fix what year-end exposed.
A clean month. Good time for the audit planning call.
Half-year close. If the books are drifting, this is where it shows.
Audit-prep season for December year-ends. Start the PBC list.
Pre-year-end planning: elections, purchases, distributions — before Dec 31 locks them.
Typical calendar for December year-ends; weekends, holidays and your fiscal year shift dates. We map yours precisely on engagement.
Short, practical orientations written from engagements, not textbooks. Each one reads in the time a coffee takes.
Ask about yoursThree months out: agree the timetable, close the books monthly (not annually), and start the PBC list — the “prepared by client” schedule of everything the auditors will ask for.
One month out: reconcile every balance-sheet account, chase supporting documents for the big and unusual items, and resolve related-party and cut-off questions before fieldwork starts.
During fieldwork: one person owns the request list and turnaround. Slow responses are the number one cause of blown audit budgets.
After: read the management letter carefully — it is a free roadmap of what to fix before next year, and next year’s auditors will check.
Clean-ups follow a sequence: rebuild the bank reconciliations first, because cash anchors everything. Then work outward — receivables and payables against source documents, payroll against filings, fixed assets against what actually exists.
Only after balances hold do we restate the profit and loss: misclassified expenses, owner transactions, missing accruals. The finish line is a trial balance a third party can rely on — that is the standard we work to, because our clean-ups are usually followed by someone else’s scrutiny: an auditor, a lender, an acquirer or the IRS.
They are different products. A review gives limited assurance — the CPA runs analytics and inquiries and reports nothing came to their attention. An audit gives reasonable assurance — testing, confirmation, verification, and an opinion.
Regulation Crowdfunding (Form C) raises are tiered: smaller raises can use officer-certified or reviewed statements, larger ones require reviewed or audited financials depending on size and whether it is your first raise. Institutional investors and lenders often ask for audits regardless of what the rules minimally require. Decide based on where the raise is going, not just where it starts.
The reform did three big things: cut the effective burden to roughly 20% by making NHIL and GETFund deductible as input tax, abolished the COVID-19 levy, and retired the flat-rate scheme that retailers and real estate lived on.
What it demands of you: check whether you must (re)register under the new thresholds, reprice with the new math, and tighten invoice discipline — input credits are only as good as the documents behind them. Fiscal Electronic Devices and e-invoicing are coming; build for machine-readable compliance now.
The mechanics differ more than people expect. Ghana: PAYE withheld and remitted by the 15th, SSNIT contributions, and withholding taxes on many supplier payments. US: federal and state income tax withholding, FICA, unemployment insurance, and deposit schedules that depend on your liability size.
The trap for cross-border teams is treating one market’s rhythm as the default. Map each entity’s calendar separately, then run them from one controlled process — that is how we set clients up.
Before any proposal: an active SAM.gov registration (UEI and CAGE code), NAICS codes that match what you actually sell, and financial systems that can survive a government look — timekeeping, cost allocation and clean books.
If federal money flows through you, Yellow Book (GAGAS) rules may follow it, and single-audit thresholds apply to major recipients. The firms that win are audit-ready before they bid — it shows up in past-performance reviews and keeps awards from turning into findings.
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Two markets, two sets of channels. The Facebook feeds below update themselves — everything else is one tap away.
US engagements, federal and private-sector guidance, and firm news for the American market.
Follow →The US practice in pictures — tax season, clean-ups and client wins.
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Follow →Inside our training sessions and team life in Accra — the work, in pictures.
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Follow →We are building The Consult-AGE across two markets. When we add people, we look for rigor, curiosity and care — and every opening is posted on this page first.
This page is the firm’s hiring notice board. When a role opens — in Washington, DC or in Accra — it is posted here and announced on our LinkedIn before anywhere else. Check back, or follow us there and the update finds you.
Our work is reviewed by auditors, regulators and boards. You hold a standard because it is yours, not because someone is checking.
A week here can move from a US clean-up to a Bank of Ghana-regulated audit to a founder training room. Curiosity travels well.
Clients hand us the numbers their livelihoods run on. We hire people who treat that like the responsibility it is.
Genuine cross-border exposure between Washington, DC and Accra — US GAAP, IFRS, federal work and Ghanaian regulatory practice in one firm.
You work directly with the leadership team and sit in the rooms where engagements are shaped, not just executed.
Training is one of our practices — and it starts in-house. Expect coaching, reviews that explain, and room to earn credentials.
Through IR Global, the firm works alongside leading independent advisory firms worldwide — and so will you.
Openings appear on this page and on our LinkedIn the moment they exist.
Tell us a little about your organization and what you need. We respond within one business day.
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1235 Pennsylvania Ave #5014
Washington, DC 20003
+1 (571) 586-8868
16 Blohum Road #304, Dzorwulu
Accra, Ghana
+233 30 394 0289
info@theconsult-age.com
The solicitation or scope of work, your timeline and evaluation criteria, and any compliance requirements (GAGAS, ICAG licensing, SAM.gov registration, insurance). We confirm capability, conflicts and availability before you shortlist — and tell you plainly if we are not the right fit.
RFPs, RFQs and teaming invitations — from agencies, institutions, prime contractors, NGOs and businesses in either market:
Submit an RFPinfo@theconsult-age.com · subject line “RFP — your organization”