Disaster Recovery - Business Continuity Planning

A catastrophe is never in anyone’s plans. But have you taken the time to consider how your business would continue operating in the event of a disaster? If not, you could be risking all the work you’ve put into building a successful organization. 

Most businesses will experience threats to their critical systems — threats like power outage, fire, flood or a computer virus. Critical systems disruptions — no matter how long — are not only frustrating, but can cause severe financial losses and threaten the survival of your organization.

Businesses depend heavily on computer technology, communications and automated systems. Disruption for even a few days can cause irreparable financial damage. While all disasters can’t be predicted or prevented, their effects can be mitigated. That’s why a business continuity plan is so important. It not only provides your organization with a comprehensive statement of actions to be taken before, during and after a disaster to minimize its impact, it also offers a certain level of comfort in knowing that if a catastrophe occurs, it will not result in complete financial disaster.

How we can help

Freed Maxick & Battaglia, CPAs provides organization-wide business continuity planning. Developing a business continuity plan is a difficult and complex process. Our advisors work with you to develop a plan that you can have confidence in — one that provides for seamless continuation of important business operations and recovery of facilities, technology and other critical resources. Our approach to business continuity planning often includes the following elements:

• Evaluation and prioritization of critical needs
• A comprehensive written plan addressing the key operations in each functional area
• Identification of high-risk threats, their impact and prevention techniques
• Prioritization of processing and operations to determine the recovery timeframe required for each operation, function, system or service
• Analysis of existing disaster recovery insurance
• Review of potential recovery facilities and off-site procedures

Why Freed Maxick & Battaglia, CPAs?

At Freed Maxick & Battaglia, CPAs, we understand the unique challenges of developing a business continuity plan. We offer a customized, flexible approach that’s based on your needs.

With a low management-to-staff ratio, we give you senior-level attention and personalized service. And our consultants have experience across a number of industries. This means we spend less time getting to know your industry and more time helping you find cost effective solutions to address your business continuity planning needs.

Freed Maxick & Battaglia, CPAs is Western and Upstate New York's (NY) largest public accounting firm and a Top 100 firm in the U.S. Freed Maxick provides, audit, tax and consulting services to private and public (SEC) companies in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany New York. Affiliated with RSM McGladrey, the 5th largest accounting firm in the U.S., Freed Maxick has vast national and international resources to help your business expand nationally and internationally.

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• Enterprise Risk Management
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  • SOX IT Audits
• Internal Controls -Non-Profits | Private Companies
• Internal Audit Consulting
• Disaster Recovery - Business Continuity Planning
• Technology Risk Management Services
  • Strategic Information Technology Planning
  • Information Systems Selection - Implementation
  • Technology Assessments - System Reviews
  • Information Systems Security - Controls Consulting
  • SAS 70 Reviews
  • SAS 70 Audits
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Contact for Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Planning:

Freed Maxick & Battaglia, CPAs is Western and Upstate New York's (NY) largest public accounting firm and a Top 100 firm in the U.S. Freed Maxick provides, audit, tax and consulting services to private and public (SEC) companies in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany New York. Affiliated with RSM McGladrey, the 5th largest accounting firm in the U.S., Freed Maxick has vast national and international resources to help your business expand nationally and internationally.

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