Where money leaks, and which documents are weak.
This is consulting, not assurance. We look for the places money can leave without a decision behind it, and the documents that would not survive being questioned.
Who this is for
- Cash or stock moves in ways nobody can fully explain.
- You are about to be audited and want to know what will be found first.
- The same reconciliation difference keeps reappearing.
How it runs
- A review of controls over expenses, purchases, sales and collection.
- Reconciliations and supporting documents tested for the gaps.
- A written findings note, ranked by what it could cost you.
- A corrective action list you can work through, not a lecture.
What is included.
- Accounting health check
- Internal control assessment
- Reconciliation review
- Expense and purchase control review
- Sales and collection process review
- Process gap analysis
- Document review
- Corrective action list
This is an internal review. It is not a statutory audit or an assurance engagement, and we do not describe it as one.
Work we have done, and what changed.
These are engagements of our United States practice, not Bangladesh clients, and the client names are withheld. They are here because they are the standard your work in Dhaka is done to.
Audit-ready ahead of the buyer's deadline
The company received an audit request from a potential acquirer. The accounts had been maintained but never reviewed, documentation was thin and reconciliations were inconsistent.
Performed a full balance sheet review, rebuilt reconciliations for the trailing twelve months, and assembled a due diligence package.
The audit was completed without material findings.
How the findings get ranked.
A controls review that hands back forty findings in no particular order is the same as no review. You read it, agree it is all true, and do none of it. So the output is ranked by what each gap could plausibly cost you, not by how quickly it could be closed.
Where we look is decided the same way. Money leaves a business at a small number of points, and the risk sits wherever it can move without a second person seeing it. Expenses and purchases, sales and collection, and anywhere cash or stock changes hands.
What the document test actually is
- Not whether a document exists, but whether it would survive somebody asking for it a year from now, when the person who filed it has left.
- Whether the same reconciliation difference keeps reappearing, which is usually a process fault rather than an arithmetic one.
- Whether approval happened before the money moved or was recorded afterwards to tidy the file.
- Whether one person can start and complete a payment on their own. This is the single question that separates most control failures from the rest.
Your team stays. The checking gets built around them.
Controls are not an accusation. They are what lets you trust the people you already have: who can commit what, who signs off, and a second person checking wherever money moves. The leaks an unchecked process hides, stale receivables, duplicate payments, cash drift, get caught in weeks rather than years.
The easiest way to test this is the look at your accounts: thirty minutes, no charge, and we tell you what we find, including the parts you will not enjoy hearing. Request the look ›
Before you call.
Is this an audit?
No, and we are careful not to call it one. Statutory audit and assurance are ICAB licensed work. This is an internal review, and its output is a findings note and a corrective list, not an opinion.
What do you actually look at?
Controls over expenses, purchases, sales and collection. Reconciliations and the supporting documents behind them, tested for the gaps rather than skimmed. Where cash or stock moves in ways nobody can fully explain, that is where we start.
What happens when you find something?
You get a written findings note ranked by what it could cost you, and a corrective action list you can work through. Ranked matters. A list of forty issues with no order is the same as no list.
We are about to be audited. Is this worth doing first?
It is the most common reason people ask for it. Finding out what will be raised before somebody else raises it is a far less costly conversation.
More general questions are answered on the contact page.
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Thirty minutes, no charge. We say honestly whether we can help, and what it would cost.