Are you about to become an accelerated-filer looking for assistance with your Sarbanes-Oxley 404(b) audit including:

• Rationalizing your existing internal control procedures with a best-practice approach
• Improving the efficiency of your testing efforts with integrated testing plans and procedures
• Utilizing expert guidance on how to scope, manage, and pass an external audit of internal controls
• Scaling your internal control system to support your rapid growth

Have you encountered internal controls audit issues or concerns and need assistance with the following:

• Assessing and resolving material weaknesses or significant deficiencies
• Remediating failed or deficient internal control procedures
• Performing efficient internal financial control testing and reporting
• Leveraging expertise to advocate on your behalf during your controls audit

Contact us to learn more about how we can perform your internal controls implementation in days instead of months, and at a fraction of the cost.

Save time: Implement a new system of internal controls in days, not months. Or rationalize your existing internal control procedures to help your finance department work faster and smarter. We average 60-80% control count reductions for existing internal controls systems. Leverage our internal controls expertise and integrated approach to get everyone up and running in a matter of days, and reduce your ongoing time and effort.

Save money:  Leverage our integrated internal controls solution, based on a standardized approach, to dramatically reduce your implementation and ongoing maintenance costs. We can integrate your existing internal control procedures, or draw from our library of best-practice internal controls. Improve your ability to prevent costly fraud and mistakes. Preserve capital while achieving compliance.

Improve audit management and compliance efforts: Streamline your internal controls audit preparation with audit-ready documentation. Limit audit cost and effort by clearly defining your audit scope and addressing your segregation of duties conflicts. Gain a knowledgeable client advocate who can help keep your audit on track and on budget. 

Improve financial risk managment efforts: Identify, categorize, and mitigate the risks that threaten your company. Provide internal control system transparency to your executives, audit committee, and auditors. 

Achieve a strong return-on-investment (ROI) by improving your internal control procedures through the following:

• Reducing existing internal controls count by adopting best-practice internal control procedures mapped to relevant business risks
• Testing internal controls with pre-populated test plans and audit-ready outputs
• Leveraging pre-built policies and forms for executing every internal financial control
• Adopting an integrated, standardized approach across all locations to simplify consolidation efforts
• Determining the financial risks of acquisition targets by reviewing their internal control procedures
• Improving your acquisition value by enhancing your own internal controls system
• Standardizing internal control procedures across acquired or merged locations, divisions, or business units to reduce compliance cost and effort
• Meeting public company Sarbanes-Oxley financial reporting requirements

Contact us to learn more about how we can perform your internal controls implementation in days instead of months, and at a fraction of the cost.