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Audit preparation and support — Accounting and financial-reporting services — Professionals
Providers should establish the support mandate, auditor interface and management responsibilities before beginning. Maintain an accurate evidence trail, obtain approval for changes and avoid presenting preparation assistance as independent assurance or a way to suppress legitimate findings.
Service scope
Assistance organising accounting records, schedules and responses for a separately appointed auditor. The support provider helps the entity prepare and coordinate information but does not thereby issue the independent auditor's opinion or guarantee that the audit will have no findings.
What is normally included
- Preparation of requested accounting schedules
- Coordination of audit information
- Tracking questions and agreed record corrections
What is not included
- Signing an audit opinion without the required engagement
- Concealing deficiencies from an auditor
- Guaranteeing a clean audit or avoiding all adjustments
Qualification checks
- Confirm support versus audit role
- Identify management contacts
- Review requested schedules
- Assess records and access
- Agree approval and communication boundaries
Quote guidance
Price preparation schedules, reconciliation work and meeting support separately where useful. Explain assumptions about record quality and additional audit requests, and keep the independent auditor's fees outside the support quote unless expressly and separately identified.
Lead risks
- The auditor may request additional evidence
- Management decisions can hold up responses
- The support provider may not be able to perform every adjustment
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