Audit & assurance

Our experienced external audit team understand the value of going beyond the numbers.

With insight and analysis, the benefits you receive can assist your organisation with stronger corporate governance frameworks, assurance for all key stakeholders with your financial integrity and the management of regulatory risk.

Our team works with corporate entities of varying sizes and complexity, navigating both listed and non-listed organisations. We offer an independent perspective that can assist your management team and board with objective feedback to inform decision making and assist with strategic imperatives.

If you are looking to grow and expand, our team has significant experience in understanding cross-jurisdictional requirements and is able to provide a team with knowledge and capability to support you through this phase.

Our team provides statutory audits and special purpose audits, tailored to any key areas of focus and is experienced with a number of key regulatory requirements and bodies:

• Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB)
• Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA)
• Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)
• Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)
• Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX)
• International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 404 (SOX 404) requirements
• US SEC
• US GAAP.

Our teams are able to provide a fully outsourced Internal Audit function for your business, or can work closely with an team member to support the delivery of an effective co-sourced Internal Audit program.

We also work closely with organisations to establish a first-time internal audit function and successfully help their maturity during the time of our partnership; assisting to embed new practices, policies and frameworks.

Our experts have experience across all sectors, which assists with ongoing improvement, benchmarking and best practice ideas. Being able to add value and innovation comes through our approach with data analytics, understanding sector trends and emerging risks.

With a longstanding reputation for delivering a partner-led team, we ensure that you receive the most efficient and cost-effective internal audit program.

Understanding your corporate strategic agenda is important to us, as we will want to ensure alignment with the practical outcomes in our reports.

We do not adopt a 'one-size fits all' approach, rather we collaborate closely with numerous stakeholders as required. We do this to ensure that boards, audit and risk committee members and key management and executives can trust in the internal audit function being delivered.

We assist with the successful design or transformation of your organisation’s governance, systems, processes and culture.

The nature of the Risk Advisory services we provide reflect the purpose for which they are needed by your organisation and can be tailored to meet your specific risk needs, across the following areas:

• strategic
• operational
• foundations & compliance
• governance & culture
• crisis, resilience & reputation
• financial
• regulatory
• cyber, IT & technology.

Our team use international Internal Audit standards, following a risk-based methodology. Through this approach, we understand that better practices need to be practically applied and proportionate to the nature of the risk and your organisation’s risk appetite and growth expectations.

We understand the value of engaging with stakeholders across your organisation, management and the board and have experience across all industry sectors.

Assurance services

Our Assurance services assist a business to review enterprise, functional or project controls and provide an independent view on their design and operating effectiveness. These services span a range of risk areas. For further detail, please download our brochure.