“Pease Bell” is a full-service CPA firm, headquartered in Cleveland, Oh with offices in Fairlawn, OH and Lakewood, NJ. With over 170 employees, our areas of expertise include information security attestation and consulting (SOC 1, SOC 2, ISO internal audit, GDPR, HIPAA, and others), traditional compliance services (taxation and financial statement assurance), transaction services (buy side diligence and quality of earnings), client accounting services (outsourced bookkeeping, controller, CFO), and more!

Pease Bell's Risk Advisory specialists understand the growing need for IT & IS assurance and compliance services. The Risk Advisory team looks to educate and support our clients; focusing on solution-based practices for clients seeking to comply or in the process of becoming compliant. We carefully dissect each aspect of our clients’ business operations to create a strategic, tailored solution to meet one or many of their compliance needs.

Our goal is to simplify and expedite the compliance reporting process to meet the stringent demands their customers, vendors and governing bodies require. 

The Pease Bell Difference

• Our team is inquisitive and listens very well. We aim to learn about our client's operations and goals before we make any recommendations or offer any guidance.
• We take a "consultative approach" to auditing. we communicate and translate in consumable language what the compliance requirements are. Through careful planning and execution, we set you up for success, and make sure expectations are clear (all while maintaining our independence of course!)
• Peer reviewed through the AICPA's Peer Review Program.
• We have a deep understanding of what Drata offers, and maximize Drata's automation to provide an efficient examination, passing along the cost savings to you, our client.
• Our team of fully dedicated information security audit leads have each been through hundreds of SOC 2 examinations.
• Information security attestation is not all that we offer. With over 100 CPA's and accountants Our clients that started with SOC 2 utilize many of our service offerings. Our SOC 2 clients have also used our team for: Corporate Tax Work, Reviewed Financial Statements, M&A Diligence, State Sales and Income Tax Nexus Studies, Outsourced Bookkeeping, Outsourced Controller and CFO Services, and more. We have a small firm feel, with the expertise and network of a large regional firm.