Audit Support Services
Making Sure You’re Audit Ready When It Counts
Whether they’re required by regulatory agencies, financial institutions, or your stakeholders — audits, including capital markets audits, are an unavoidable part of doing business.
However, audit preparation, like all audit readiness efforts, requires a lot of extra effort on top of regular operations. The process can overwhelm your team and quickly go awry without a strategic plan.
Why Prepare with Centri?
- Senior-led execution
- A responsive and award-winning team
- Tech-enabled tools to deliver agile and efficient support
- A mastery of complex accounting skills
- Expertise supporting both private and public companies
- Less friction because you have auditor-ready information
- Diverse experience across complex industries
But with the help of Centri’s audit support experts, you can find preparation services tailored to fit your specific needs – whether it’s a capital markets audit or another financial review. We’ll help get you audit-ready, so you can focus on what you do best — running a successful business.
The Key Audit Preparation Steps for Success:
Step 1
Assess the internal capabilities of your team to handle the audit on top of their regular duties.
Step 2
Communicate openly with your auditor in regard to the timeline and any concerns, related requests, and questions about the process
Step 3
Bring together or prepare documentation showing the performance of your company’s internal controls.
Step 4
Create a record of your accounting policies, and formalize details surrounding complex accounting scenarios. An audit consultant can help you strategize the right structure.
Step 5
Review your accounts and internal financials, ensuring that balance sheet reconciliations, analysis, and other auditor requested reports are correct and ready.
What You Can Expect From Centri’s Audit Readiness Help
Our team works as a liaison between your management and auditors to facilitate a smooth execution. That help includes:
- Supporting capital markets audit preparation and documentation needs
- Working with auditors regarding requirements for testing & documentation
- Meeting with external auditors about complex technical accounting matters
- Compiling of whitepapers and detailed memos on technical issues.
- Preparing financial statements and schedules in an audit-ready format
- Supporting new/existing applicable authoritative pronouncements
- Coordinating and managing your PBC list response to auditors
- Completing the SEC/ US GAAP disclosure checklists required from auditors
- Prepping and maintaining your trial balance bridge for the audit
- Providing tax advisory support and solutions
- Supporting bankruptcy accounting documentation & reporting
- Applying fresh-start accounting after emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Why Choose Centri?
We understand what auditors are looking for, which means less time spent on requests and faster responses to auditor questions. Plus, our team can provide full support in-house if you have other needs tied to your audit, like capital markets audit preparation, post-acquisition integration, M&A services, or valuation help.
You’ll work with one point of contact, but with Centri, we bring a full firm to the table. And as you continue scaling up, we are here to help manage the growing needs of your business.
Meet Our Audit Support & Readiness Team
Centri’s team of experts is ready to help you with your Audit Support & Readiness needs. You can learn more about our specialists on the One Team page:
Partner
Accounting Operations and Transformation Practice Leader
Looking For More Support?
Here are some other related services that can be helpful depending on the goals you have for your business.
Our Services for Digital Assets
Our skilled professionals collaborate with domestic/international investment managers, digital asset exchanges, and blockchain and enterprise platforms. This experience gives us a unique advantage in engineering comprehensive and effective solutions for your unique set of needs.
Centri offers a suite of accounting and audit support services for digital asset companies, such as:
- Financial reporting and regulatory filings
- Audit support preparation
- Capitalization table preparation & equity analysis
- Realized and unrealized gain/loss calculations and corresponding adjustments to your digital asset balances
- Preparation of financial statements
Our Services for Cannabis
Our cannabis advisory services are tailored to satisfy your needs and engineered to evolve as the demands on your company shift. Thanks to our extensive knowledge of the cannabis industry combined with our experience in other highly regulated sectors, we can help ensure you’re audit-ready by helping your team with tasks such as:
- Preparing financial statements and schedules in an audit-ready format
- Building internal control infrastructure documentation and testing
- Performing 280E & COGS analysis
Our Services for Capital Markets
Preparing for an audit adds work for your team on top of their daily responsibilities and places pressure on the resources of your capital markets business. Yet it’s important to ensure your financial records are accurate, compliant, and defensible as you prepare. We understand that a smooth audit process alleviates some of the stress on your team, which is why our audit readiness services provide the thorough preparation you need for your upcoming audit. Our goal is to set you up for minimal disruptions and a successful outcome that reinforces stakeholder trust.