Advisory – Cotton

Cotton’s Advisory Practice includes financial management and information assurance professionals that specialize in providing services to support a wide range of federal and commercial clients. Our advisory team is dedicated to providing solutions and services tailored to our customer’s unique requirements and needs.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT CONSULTING SERVICES

Cotton assists organizations in assessing and delivering solutions to meet their financial management requirements. We have been providing a wide range of services and objective results helping organizations achieve their financial management goals. Our services include, but are not limited to:

Audit support and remediation
Accounting support
Budget execution support
Internal control assessments
Regulatory reporting activities
Improper payments analysis
System implementation-readiness activities
Policies and procedures design and documentation

CIO AND CISO SUPPORT

Cotton has helped numerous federal agencies establish and maintain programs that meet and exceed the internal control requirements specified in OMB Circular A-123, Management’s Responsibility for Internal Control. We have a track record of implementing and executing effective, risk-based management control programs. We provide services to assist with:

Audit support and remediation
Plan of Action and Milestone (POA&M) Management
Risk Management Framework Consulting
Client Information System Security Officer Support
Assessment & Authorization (A&A)
Privacy Programs

OMB CIRCULAR A-123 IMPLEMENTATION AND COMPLIANCE SUPPORT

Establishing a holistic infrastructure can be a daunting task – within the context of your mission goals and program objectives, data must be secure, privacy protected, and risks continuously monitored and mitigated. Cotton has the perspective gained from ongoing assessments and continuous adaptation to provide our clients with advice, development, and implementation of an information infrastructure that effectively protects your information while actively supporting your mission. We have provided our clients with:

Designing Federal Managers’ Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA) programs
Assisting in the establishment of proper governance structures (e.g., Senior Assessment Teams)
Planning the assessment of internal control over financial reporting
Identifying, documenting, and testing key controls over financial reporting
Developing, implementing, and monitoring corrective action plans
Assisting in the preparation of the annual assurance statements

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT TRAINING

Cotton provides agencies with tailored financial management training programs that include:

Developing materials for regional, foreign, and headquarters conferences
Providing instructor-led classroom training, virtual training, and video teleconferencing
Developing demonstrations, interactive learning simulations, exercises, and quizzes to facilitate full participation and understanding of training materials

Our training experts are well-versed in video production software, which we have used to develop reusable on-demand training for our clients.

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DoD) CYBERSECURITY MATURITY MODEL CERTIFICATION (CMMC) ADVISORY SUPPORT

Cotton provides DoD contractors with expertise to navigate the new and evolving requirements to help protect and defend the U.S. Defense supply chain from cyber risks that include:

Educating contractor personnel about the CMMC, its requirements, timelines and how to interpret the cybersecurity controls catalog
Supporting the design, documentation and implementation of required cybersecurity controls within the applicable maturity levels
Performing pre-assessments to help identify corrective actions or implementation gaps for the required cybersecurity controls
Supporting the full lifecycle of the CMMC audit