A financial statement audit goes smoothly when every account — not just revenue — has controls, documentation, and reconciliations that can stand on their own before anyone outside the organization is asking questions.
Preparation means walking through these before your auditor does — and fixing what doesn't hold up.
Revenue, expenses, assets, liabilities, equity — every material balance needs support that ties out and disclosures that match what's actually happening.
Segregation of duties, approval workflows, and whether controls are designed well and operating as designed across the full close process.
Do your account balances tie out to supporting detail, consistently, month over month — across the whole balance sheet, not just one account?
Can a judgment call from six months ago — on any account — be reconstructed and explained today?
Review current controls and documentation across the full financial statement, and map the gap against what an auditor will expect to see.
Close the gaps — tighten controls, rebuild missing documentation, correct reconciliations that don't tie out.
Trace the numbers back to source systems and confirm what's documented matches what's actually calculated.
Prepare the audit file, walk the auditor through methodology, and stand behind the numbers when questions come up.
Either way, the earlier we start, the fewer surprises show up mid-audit.
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