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Audit readiness, controls, financial reporting and analysis, built on Big Four audit experience with listed banks and groups.
Sound familiar?
What people tell us.
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“The auditors arrive and we scramble for schedules.”
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“One person can raise, approve and pay the same invoice.”
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“Nobody trusts the numbers until finance has checked them twice.”
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What we do
Four things, done properly.
Big Four rigour, applied to your business: numbers ready for your auditors, your lenders and the decisions you need to make.
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Audit readiness
We find the gaps before your auditors do: schedules, reconciliations, documentation and controls prepared the way auditors test them, so fieldwork runs smoother and fewer questions come back.
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Risk and internal controls
Who can approve, pay and change what. We test how your key processes actually operate, not how they are written down, and give you a practical plan to close the gaps.
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Financial reporting
Financial statements prepared or reviewed to IFRS, with the analysis that explains performance and position in terms an owner, lender or buyer can act on.
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Management reporting and tax review
Dashboards and models your team can make decisions from, and a second check on tax computations before filing or audit. A review of the numbers, not tax advice.
Our practice
Finance & controls
Big Four rigour, applied to your business: numbers ready for your auditors, your lenders and the decisions you need to make.
In the diagnostic
What we look at.
- Whether the reporting is accurate, and how long it takes
- Where process risk sits, and who checks what
- The financial health behind the headline numbers
- Whether the numbers survive a hard question
Finance and technology run in the same pass. You get one report, not two.
Experience
What the team has done.
Our finance practice is led by an ACCA finalist with Big Four statutory audit experience on listed banks, finance companies and diversified groups, to IFRS and ISA.
| Experience | Context | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Listed bank audits | Banking | Financial statements and controls tested to IFRS and ISA |
| Finance and leasing company audit | Lending | A listed lender’s accounts, audited to IFRS |
| Manufacturing group reporting | Manufacturing | Group accounts across the companies in the group |
| Group consolidations | Consolidation | Many entities brought into one set of accounts |
| Healthcare provider audit | Healthcare | A private provider’s annual accounts, to IFRS and ISA |
- every job includes
- ScopingFrom the diagnostic findings, with a fixed scope and price agreed before we start.
- The workDone by the people who scoped it, not handed to someone you have not met.
- HandoverWritten guides and a walkthrough, so your team can run it without us.
- SupportThrough the first weeks after go-live, then ongoing only if you want it.
FAQs
Before you ask.
Something else? Send us a message, or email hello@fd-consulting.example.
Contact usIs this a statutory audit?
No. We prepare you for your auditors and test your controls, but we do not sign an audit opinion. Your external auditor still does that.
Do you give tax advice?
No. We recompute and review tax positions so the numbers are right before filing or audit. Advice and lodgement stay with your tax adviser.
Start with the diagnostic.
Tell us what is going on first. We'll tell you honestly whether you need the diagnostic, just the fix, or neither.