Calling Chief Audit Executives and Internal Audit Management...
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Do you have an upcoming audit?
Do you have adequate resources with the skill set you require to meet your needs?
Do you want to manage the audit process so NO SURPRISES 0ccur?
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Do you have adequate resources with the skill set you require to meet your needs?
Do you want to manage the audit process so NO SURPRISES 0ccur?
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You are responsible for ensuring that your organization complies with internal and external requirements. You are typically audited or assessed by internal audit departments, internal compliance departments, external auditors, and/or regulatory agencies.
We have designed a customized approach to help you manage your internal and external compliance requirements, while maximizing the value you bring to the organization.
We provide a broad range of customized services to meet your needs. Illustrated services are noted below; however we are able to work with you and provide services to meet your broad range of needs. We are flexible in our approach and are here to help you.
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We have designed a customized approach to help you manage your internal and external compliance requirements, while maximizing the value you bring to the organization.
We provide a broad range of customized services to meet your needs. Illustrated services are noted below; however we are able to work with you and provide services to meet your broad range of needs. We are flexible in our approach and are here to help you.
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Audit Preparation and Readiness
We can help you prepare for an upcoming audit or assessment to ensure that you are as prepared as possible. This could include pre-identifying risk areas that the auditor or assessor may be concerned with, helping you re-mediate the risk areas so the issue is gone before the auditor or assessor arrive, or helping you develop a strategy and roadmap for compliance.
Audit Coach and Mediator
We can also help you during an audit or assessment. We have found it helpful that management have a 'coach' or trusted business adviser during an audit or assessment. Auditors and assessors may identify risk areas or provide recommendations that do not make sense for your organization. We either provide you advice or help mediate the identified risks and recommendations. We have seen many identified risks be removed from the audit reports because we were able to demonstrate that your organization had other controls in place that the auditors or assessors failed to review, which help you maintain your compliance.
Audit Remediation
We also help you with your remediation activities. This means that you have been provided the results of an audit or assessment and you now need to get in compliance. We will review the identified issues and recommendations and help you understand what they mean. We then help you develop a strategy and roadmap to comply and remediate. There are many different ways to comply and remediate auditors or assessors identified issues and recommendations. We help you examine the options so you can make the choice that is best for your organization. We can also help you implement the options so you can become compliant.
Post-Audit Follow-up and Review
We can also help provide a follow-up / post audit review to ensure that the issues have been remediated. This could include reviewing documentation or revised processes in a 'mock' audit to ensure that you have successfully remediated you audit findings.
IT Audits
You may have an internal audit department, but lack enough IT audit management or resources for adequate coverage of your IT audit needs. We can become your IT Audit team and help you with your IT risks. We focus on the technology audit issues that your organization faces, and work with the financial/operational internal audit team to ensure that their needs are also being met. Many audits have some aspect of IT audit, and we can help you ensure that your internal audits have an integrated audit approach.
No matter if you are faced with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, Model Audit Rule requirements or other regulatory challenges, we can help you. We are experienced with the regulations and help you adhere to them.
We have a broad experience with different off-the-shelf and ERP systems, ranging from Quickbooks to SAP to Oracle, and have the experience to audit these systems.
External Audit Support
We work with you to ensure that you are appropriately relying on electronic audit evidence. Financial information is processed through complex computer systems that require the knowledge of an IT audit specialist to understand the IT general computer controls (e.g. change management, logical security, computer operations) to ensure that the financial information has "CIA" (confidentiality, integrity, availability). Do not put you financial audit at risk! Work with us so we can review the IT general computer controls and application controls associated with the financial systems at your site. We can help you identify IT risk areas such as logical security concerns, programmers being able to make unauthorized changes, inappropriate system access rights causing SOD conflicts, and much much more. We want to make sure you understand the IT risks so you can appropriately conduct you financial statement audit.
Internal Audit Support
You are responsible for providing internal audit support to you client, and fully understand the financial and operational risks; however, you need a partner that you can trust who can help support you team in understanding the IT risks at you client. We fully understand control frameworks (e.g. COSO, COBIT) regulatory requirements (e.g. HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Model Audit Rule) and are well versed in technology (e.g. mainframe, client server, Oracle, Windows, SAP). Your client will have different IT risks and it is imperative that you work with someone that understands the IT risks and provide recommendations to minimize your clients' risks and maximize value.
We can help you meet the needs and expectations of you client by being the IT Audit & Consulting practice for you firm.
Data Analytics
Internal audit teams need to analyze massive amounts of data and may not have the knowledge or time to adequately analyze data without compromising its integrity. Using data analytic tools, we help you pool data from disparate sources and analyze the data so you can have complete populations of data for accurate sampling and coverage. Sometimes audit issues are hidden within the data, and you need to work with an auditor who is experienced with data analysis.
Fraud Investigations
No one wants a fraud to occur, but when it does the internal audit department will be called. We can help you investigate the fraud and provide solutions to prevent a similar fraud from occurring in the future. Remember that most frauds have an 'IT' aspect to them, and that is where we excel! We can help you find the digital footprint.
Internal Audit Function
You are a Chief Audit Executive that is trying to build an internal audit team, but you need some help. We will help you recruit the talent you need so you have a world-class audit department. We can help you develop your internal audit policies and procedures so you meet the high quality demands of the profession and of your organization. We work with you so you do not feel alone! We are here to help you every step of the way so you have the internal audit department that is a leader in the profession.
Staff Augmentation / Co-Sourcing / Outsourcing
We provide staffing solutions for your accounting, finance and operations team. W have resources ready to be deployed to help you on a short-term or long-term basis. We have helped organizations find interim accounting/finance/operations personnel. For example, one of our specialties is the healthcare industry where we provide temporary auditors to audit healthcare claims and enrollments.
Accounting/Finance/Operations Resource Recruiting and Placement
We work with management in the hiring process. We will gain an understanding of your staffing needs and help recruit the talent you desire. We help sort through the resumes and identify the candidates that you wish to meet. We coordinate the interviews and placement process. While we are recruiting the right candidates for you, you can take advantage of our staff that can be the gap-stop until you find the right candidate.
No matter if you need administrative help or experienced professionals for accounting, finance or operations we can help you find the right candidates.
Management Pre-Hire Program
We provide a unique service where we partner with management so you can make the right hiring decisions. It is sometimes difficult to know if the potential new hire is the right hire or not. We will temporarily hire the candidates and provide them to you as a resource. This enables you to see how the administrative, staff, or management resource would fit within your culture and you can see how they perform in their day-to-day tasks. If you like what you see, then you can complete the hiring process and be confident that you have a solid, new resource. If you do not like what you see you not gone through the process of onboarding someone that you now wish you could "un-hire". We will work with the resource to help them land another opportunity or place them at other clients. We believe in not only helping you find the right candidates for you management function, but believe we have a responsibility to help the candidates find the best job that will benefit their individual careers.
Customized Solutions
If there are services that you need that you did not find on the website, please do not think we cannot help you. In most cases we can help you. We design and develop customized solutions for our clients to meet your needs and expectations. With that said, we will not provide services that are beyond the scope of our competency, but we will help you identify resources or other options so you needs are met.
We can help you prepare for an upcoming audit or assessment to ensure that you are as prepared as possible. This could include pre-identifying risk areas that the auditor or assessor may be concerned with, helping you re-mediate the risk areas so the issue is gone before the auditor or assessor arrive, or helping you develop a strategy and roadmap for compliance.
Audit Coach and Mediator
We can also help you during an audit or assessment. We have found it helpful that management have a 'coach' or trusted business adviser during an audit or assessment. Auditors and assessors may identify risk areas or provide recommendations that do not make sense for your organization. We either provide you advice or help mediate the identified risks and recommendations. We have seen many identified risks be removed from the audit reports because we were able to demonstrate that your organization had other controls in place that the auditors or assessors failed to review, which help you maintain your compliance.
Audit Remediation
We also help you with your remediation activities. This means that you have been provided the results of an audit or assessment and you now need to get in compliance. We will review the identified issues and recommendations and help you understand what they mean. We then help you develop a strategy and roadmap to comply and remediate. There are many different ways to comply and remediate auditors or assessors identified issues and recommendations. We help you examine the options so you can make the choice that is best for your organization. We can also help you implement the options so you can become compliant.
Post-Audit Follow-up and Review
We can also help provide a follow-up / post audit review to ensure that the issues have been remediated. This could include reviewing documentation or revised processes in a 'mock' audit to ensure that you have successfully remediated you audit findings.
IT Audits
You may have an internal audit department, but lack enough IT audit management or resources for adequate coverage of your IT audit needs. We can become your IT Audit team and help you with your IT risks. We focus on the technology audit issues that your organization faces, and work with the financial/operational internal audit team to ensure that their needs are also being met. Many audits have some aspect of IT audit, and we can help you ensure that your internal audits have an integrated audit approach.
No matter if you are faced with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, Model Audit Rule requirements or other regulatory challenges, we can help you. We are experienced with the regulations and help you adhere to them.
We have a broad experience with different off-the-shelf and ERP systems, ranging from Quickbooks to SAP to Oracle, and have the experience to audit these systems.
External Audit Support
We work with you to ensure that you are appropriately relying on electronic audit evidence. Financial information is processed through complex computer systems that require the knowledge of an IT audit specialist to understand the IT general computer controls (e.g. change management, logical security, computer operations) to ensure that the financial information has "CIA" (confidentiality, integrity, availability). Do not put you financial audit at risk! Work with us so we can review the IT general computer controls and application controls associated with the financial systems at your site. We can help you identify IT risk areas such as logical security concerns, programmers being able to make unauthorized changes, inappropriate system access rights causing SOD conflicts, and much much more. We want to make sure you understand the IT risks so you can appropriately conduct you financial statement audit.
Internal Audit Support
You are responsible for providing internal audit support to you client, and fully understand the financial and operational risks; however, you need a partner that you can trust who can help support you team in understanding the IT risks at you client. We fully understand control frameworks (e.g. COSO, COBIT) regulatory requirements (e.g. HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Model Audit Rule) and are well versed in technology (e.g. mainframe, client server, Oracle, Windows, SAP). Your client will have different IT risks and it is imperative that you work with someone that understands the IT risks and provide recommendations to minimize your clients' risks and maximize value.
We can help you meet the needs and expectations of you client by being the IT Audit & Consulting practice for you firm.
Data Analytics
Internal audit teams need to analyze massive amounts of data and may not have the knowledge or time to adequately analyze data without compromising its integrity. Using data analytic tools, we help you pool data from disparate sources and analyze the data so you can have complete populations of data for accurate sampling and coverage. Sometimes audit issues are hidden within the data, and you need to work with an auditor who is experienced with data analysis.
Fraud Investigations
No one wants a fraud to occur, but when it does the internal audit department will be called. We can help you investigate the fraud and provide solutions to prevent a similar fraud from occurring in the future. Remember that most frauds have an 'IT' aspect to them, and that is where we excel! We can help you find the digital footprint.
Internal Audit Function
You are a Chief Audit Executive that is trying to build an internal audit team, but you need some help. We will help you recruit the talent you need so you have a world-class audit department. We can help you develop your internal audit policies and procedures so you meet the high quality demands of the profession and of your organization. We work with you so you do not feel alone! We are here to help you every step of the way so you have the internal audit department that is a leader in the profession.
Staff Augmentation / Co-Sourcing / Outsourcing
We provide staffing solutions for your accounting, finance and operations team. W have resources ready to be deployed to help you on a short-term or long-term basis. We have helped organizations find interim accounting/finance/operations personnel. For example, one of our specialties is the healthcare industry where we provide temporary auditors to audit healthcare claims and enrollments.
Accounting/Finance/Operations Resource Recruiting and Placement
We work with management in the hiring process. We will gain an understanding of your staffing needs and help recruit the talent you desire. We help sort through the resumes and identify the candidates that you wish to meet. We coordinate the interviews and placement process. While we are recruiting the right candidates for you, you can take advantage of our staff that can be the gap-stop until you find the right candidate.
No matter if you need administrative help or experienced professionals for accounting, finance or operations we can help you find the right candidates.
Management Pre-Hire Program
We provide a unique service where we partner with management so you can make the right hiring decisions. It is sometimes difficult to know if the potential new hire is the right hire or not. We will temporarily hire the candidates and provide them to you as a resource. This enables you to see how the administrative, staff, or management resource would fit within your culture and you can see how they perform in their day-to-day tasks. If you like what you see, then you can complete the hiring process and be confident that you have a solid, new resource. If you do not like what you see you not gone through the process of onboarding someone that you now wish you could "un-hire". We will work with the resource to help them land another opportunity or place them at other clients. We believe in not only helping you find the right candidates for you management function, but believe we have a responsibility to help the candidates find the best job that will benefit their individual careers.
Customized Solutions
If there are services that you need that you did not find on the website, please do not think we cannot help you. In most cases we can help you. We design and develop customized solutions for our clients to meet your needs and expectations. With that said, we will not provide services that are beyond the scope of our competency, but we will help you identify resources or other options so you needs are met.
