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Assurance
Independent, high-quality assurance that gives management, boards and other stakeholders confidence in an organisation’s financial and non-financial information.
Overview
Senior involvement from planning through to sign-off.
Our assurance practice covers statutory audits, reviews and other assurance engagements carried out under the firm’s quality management framework, with senior professionals involved from planning through to sign-off rather than only at the review stage.
An audit opinion is only as good as the independence and judgement behind it. That is why assurance engagements are scoped, staffed and reviewed with the firm’s system of quality management applied throughout, and why the partner who scopes the engagement is the partner who signs it.
Our services
What we deliver
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External Audit
Statutory audits of financial statements under IFRS, IFRS for SMEs and IPSAS.
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Independent Review Engagements
Limited assurance where a full statutory audit is not required.
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Financial Statement Assurance
Assurance over financial information prepared for lenders, boards and regulators.
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Special Purpose Audits
Grant, project, donor-funded and contractual compliance audits.
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Agreed-Upon Procedures
Defined procedures with factual findings reported, without an opinion.
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Internal Audit Support
Co-sourced and outsourced internal audit resourcing and reviews.
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Quality Management Reviews
Independent review of a firm’s or function’s quality management arrangements.
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Audit Readiness & Financial Reporting Support
Preparing an organisation, its records and its people for the audit itself.
Our commitment to quality
Quality management is how assurance work is governed, not a service we sell.
We have established a System of Quality Management designed to identify and respond to quality risks in the performance of audit and assurance engagements.
ISQM 1 — Quality Management
- 01 Governance and Leadership
- 02 Ethical Requirements and Independence
- 03 Client Acceptance and Continuance
- 04 Engagement Performance
- 05 Resources
- 06 Information and Communication
- 07 Monitoring and Remediation
ISQM 2 — Engagement Quality Reviews
For engagements that require one, an engagement quality review provides an objective evaluation of the significant judgements made by the engagement team and the conclusions reached, completed before the report is dated and issued.
Reviewers are appointed on the basis of competence, experience and independence from the engagement team, and the review is documented as part of the engagement file.
Read our governance policiesOur audit methodology
Risk-based, and shaped by the business — not the checklist.
Understand the entity
Business model, operating environment, controls and the pressures acting on management.
Assess the risk of misstatement
Identifying where the numbers are most likely to be wrong, and why.
Design a targeted response
Procedures matched to the assessed risks, including data-driven testing where it adds coverage.
Conclude and report
Structured review, engagement quality review where required, and clear communication with those charged with governance.
Related disciplines
All services
Tax
Keeping clients compliant while identifying legitimate planning opportunities they might otherwise miss, and being present when a dispute actually needs defending.
Forensic & Investigations
This work sits apart from the firm’s other engagements to preserve the independence that makes findings credible if they are ever tested.
Advisory & Consultancy
Internal control reviews, risk assessments, governance structuring and support through operational or strategic change.
Contact
Planning an audit, or preparing for one?
Talk to our assurance partner about scope, timing and what audit readiness would involve for your organisation.