SPONSORED: Juniper Square — What managers can do now to prepare for the next tax and audit season

An upcoming tax season and audit can cause some anxiety in fund managers, especially if accounting is not their specific training and skill set. Outsourcing some fund administration tasks can take pressure off, but there is still plenty to know for the process to be efficient and successful. In an interview published in the October issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, Dorota Kowalski, senior director, fund accounting, with Juniper Square, talks through the audit process and how fund managers can best support their accounting teams if they handle everything in-house, what they need to know if they are working with a third-party administrator for the first time, and what new regulations or guidelines they need to know about. “Technology needs to become an integral part of an operating model,” says Kowalski. “It produces greater efficiencies and quality, which allow team members to spend more time on high-level work and provide analysis, which ultimatel