Audit preparation
Records, reconciliations and documentation organised the way your auditor asks for them, so the fieldwork is short and the questions are few.
PRICED BY THE HOUR
$25 to $40
Scoped once we have seen the auditor’s request list. One-off, and never folded into a monthly fee.
Book a free 30-min callYou are probably here because one of these is true.
Which version you need.
What the auditor asks for depends on why the audit is happening. That changes the preparation more than the size of the business does.
First audit
- Gap check against their list
- Documents located and attached
- Reconciliations rebuilt where thin
Scoped on the call
Recurring audit
- Their list mapped to your ledger
- Schedules prepared and tied to the trial balance
- Sample support pulled in advance
- Prior year points closed out
- Queries handled during fieldwork
Weeks, ahead of fieldwork
Transaction support
- Everything in the recurring pack
- Comparatives tested for consistency
- A note on what a diligence team will probe
Scoped on the call
What is in, and what is not.
Included in every preparation
- Records organised to the auditor’s own request list, not a template
- A gap check first, so you know what is missing before they do
- Source documents located and attached to the transactions they support
- Reconciliations and supporting schedules tied to the trial balance
- Sample support pulled in advance for the areas auditors usually test
- Prior year audit points tracked and closed out
- A live tracker of what is outstanding and who has it
- Auditor queries handled on your behalf during fieldwork
Not included
- The audit itself. We prepare, they audit, and independence means it cannot be the same firm
- An audit opinion or any form of assurance report
- An attestation on your internal controls
- Tax computations or filing, at any stage
- Creating records that do not exist. If something is genuinely missing, we say so rather than construct it
Five stages, and the gap check comes before the work.
The point of preparation is that the auditor finds what they asked for where they expected it. Everything here is built backwards from their request list.
What you have at the end.
Named artefacts, not adjectives. Everything below is something you can open, forward or hand to a third party.
WHO DOES THIS WORK
A named senior accountant
ACCA-qualified · Cleanup and Catch-Up department · Reviewed by Quality Assurance
Audit preparation runs out of the same department as cleanup, because the work is closely related and the standard of evidence is the same. Every deliverable is checked independently by quality assurance before it goes to you or the auditor.
$25 to $40 an hour, scoped against their list.
We cannot scope this without seeing what the auditor has asked for, because their request list is the specification. Send it over on the call and you get the number before anything starts.
Price your ongoing bookkeeping insteadQuestions we get asked.
No, and we could not. Independence rules mean the firm preparing the records cannot be the firm auditing them. We prepare, your auditor audits, and that separation is in your interest.
Yes. We handle their request list and the queries that come in during fieldwork ourselves, and copy you on anything that needs a decision. It is usually the fastest route for everyone.
We tell you, and we tell you early. The gap check exists so that a missing document surfaces while there is time to request a copy, rather than in the middle of fieldwork. What we will not do is construct a record that does not exist.
It should, because most audit delay is waiting for information. What we will not do is promise a fee reduction on your auditor’s behalf. What we can say is that they will find what they asked for where they expected it.
No, though they often happen together. Cleanup fixes books that are wrong. Audit preparation organises books that are right so a third party can test them. If the gap check shows the underlying records are wrong, we stop and scope cleanup separately.
Four levels of review before anything reaches you: a junior self-check against source documents, a mid-level review of categorisation and reconciliation, a senior sign-off, then an independent QA check. We do not claim error-free work. We claim errors are caught before delivery, and reported when they are not.
More on getting audit-ready.
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