Founded 2001 · Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Before you sign anything, check what we can prove.
A firm that touches your payroll, your grant allocation and your federal reporting should be verifiable, not merely likeable. So this page is a record rather than a brochure: a founding year, an address you can walk into, a product with a production date, and two commitments written plainly enough that you could catch us breaking either one.
Whoever takes that call is whoever would do the work. We are not large enough for it to be anyone else.
- 25 yearsin practice, founded 2001
- Since 2018FTE Tracker in continuous production
- 200+Single Audits supported
- 100,000+time-and-effort entries managed
What this firm is
We do both halves, which is why neither half can point at the other.
Accounting firms do not ship software. Software companies do not sit in your audit. Most organizations carrying federal awards end up managing two vendors who blame each other: the accountants say the personnel documentation is inadequate, the software company says the system does what it was configured to do, and in the middle is a Schedule of Findings and Questioned Costs with your name on it.
We run the finance function — the close, the payroll, the grant allocation, the Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards — and we built and still operate the time-and-effort system that produces the payroll documentation your auditors ask for under 2 CFR 200.430(i). One team holds both answers. That is the entire reason this firm exists in the shape it does.
How an engagement actually runsThe story
Why nonprofits, and why the software.
Pecunia Group started in 2001 as a financial and administrative consulting practice. The turn toward federal compliance was not a positioning decision. It came from working with Puerto Rico nonprofits and seeing the same thing repeatedly: what cost an organization its funding was almost never the quality of the service it delivered. It was the administrative capacity to document that it had delivered it.
In 2018 we stopped telling organizations to fix their time-and-effort records in a spreadsheet and built FTE Tracker instead. It has been in production ever since, which is the part of this story that can be dated rather than told.
The facts behind everything above
- Founded in 2001 as a financial and administrative consulting firm — 25 years of practice.
- FTE Tracker built in response to the federal requirements for documenting personnel expense, and in continuous production at federally funded Puerto Rico nonprofits since 2018.
- One office, in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico — a staffed address, not a mail drop.
- Work delivered in Spanish and English — including staff training, which is in Spanish because that is the language the people entering the data work in.
How we work
Two commitments, and one thing we will not do.
A value only survives on this page if it cashes out into something you could hold us to. Compliance, confidentiality and veracity are assertions. These are not.
- 01
You hear it in week one, not in the management letter.
If your books will not survive an audit, that goes in the first written summary of the engagement — not eleven months later when an independent auditor writes it for you. It is the uncomfortable part of the work and it is the part you are actually paying for.
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We say when you do not need us.
Some organizations arrive convinced they need a system and need a process. Some arrive asking for compliance help and already have it handled. We would rather lose the engagement than sell you the wrong one, and it happens often enough that we are willing to put it in writing here.
The boundary
We prepare you for the audit; an independent CPA firm performs it. We cannot be both, and you do not want a firm that offers to be. Our work is the readiness and the record. The opinion is somebody else’s.
One office, two working languages.
Your staff are trained in Spanish; the reports that go to the federal agency and the independent auditor go out in English. In Puerto Rico that is not a courtesy — it is the difference between staff who use the system and staff who work around it.
Talk to whoever would do the work.
Thirty minutes, no deck. Tell us what you are carrying — a Single Audit on the calendar, a close that is always late, a system nobody trusts — and we will tell you plainly what we would do first, including when the honest answer is nothing.
Bring your last management letter if you have one.