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 books 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.
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 much cheaper conversation.
More general questions are answered on the contact page.
Start with a look at your books.
Fifteen minutes, no charge. We say honestly whether we can help, and what it would cost.