Tribal & Gaming

Successfully governing a Tribal nation is a responsibility that comes with both opportunities and challenges. For many Tribal leaders, developing a solid foundation that can connect the dots between business decisions and citizen impact is a high priority that’s difficult to bring about.

Improve Tribal government impact and effectiveness with professional services that can help overcome challenges—like grant compliance, governance disruption, and staffing gaps—while uncovering business-building opportunities, unlocking data insights, and improving service delivery to citizens.

Explore how our Tribal-specific services can help Tribal leaders address citizen needs, realize the Tribe’s vision, and create a solid foundation for the next seven generations—and beyond.

Elevate Your Tribe’s Governance Capabilities

Strong, consistent leadership not only benefits the Tribe in its current state, but also lays the groundwork for future needs, goals, and success. Empower your Tribe’s leadership with the skills, knowledge, and tools to keep the Tribe on an upward trajectory.

Build a Strong Business Portfolio

Tribal gaming has long been the backbone of generating Tribal revenue from investments in Tribal businesses. However, as the gaming landscape changes and Tribes’ business goals evolve, many Tribes are expanding and diversifying their business portfolios into other industries, like federal contracting, banking, forest products, oil and gas, real estate, hospitality, and more.

Facilitate successful business growth and expansion with tailored services that address your Tribe’s unique challenges and needs.

Deeply immersed within the Tribal and gaming industries, our professionals have extensive knowledge of the nuanced operations of Tribal government organizations, enterprises, and gaming entities. Our collaborative approach takes the time to understand the specifics of your Tribal organization’s needs and strategically develop unique solutions contextualized among greater industry trends and activity.

Our one-firm approach allows your organization to tap into the full resources of our firm, integrating guidance and solutions related to other integral support areas including finance, and audit concerns, as well as grant compliance, and technology support.

Social responsibility, environmental stewardship, inclusion and diversity, and other initiatives are core to Moss Adams values and business practices—and drive how we engage our clients, people, and the communities in which we live and work.

Our Commitment to Tribes

Since 1977, Moss Adams has helped Tribal governments take advantage of rising opportunities to strengthen their sovereignty and claim the future for their nations.

As a firm, we maintain active membership in the following Tribal-related organizations:

• Native American Financial Officer’s Association (NAFOA)’s Corporate Advisory Board
• Indian Gaming Association (IGA)
• AICPA, including State and Local Government Expert Panel, and Government Audit Quality Center (GAQC) committees

Individuals within the firm:

• Serve as a NAFOA representative to the Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council (GASAC), an advisory group to the GASB since 2013.
• Teach in NAFOA’s joint project with Arizona State University for their financial manager certificate program.
• Participate as members of the GAQC Executive Committee
• Prepare NAFOA training materials for the Tribal Finance and Accounting Programs.

Lead regional Tribal trainings and CFO roundtables that provide Tribal finance members opportunities to network, stay current on key issues affecting Tribes, and engage peers on pressing topics.