Service · Audit & Assurance
Internal audit, controls review and audit-readiness work.
An audit opinion is a signature on your numbers. It tells a bank, a board, a regulator or a buyer that someone independent looked and found the figures fair. That signature is the whole point — and it is only worth having if the work behind it is real.
External audit asks one question: are these statements true and fair? It answers in an opinion others can rely on. Internal audit asks a different one — do the controls you depend on actually work, and where do they leak? We run both. And because our accounting and compliance teams sit in this office, the numbers we audit are the numbers your ledgers already show.
You get a clean opinion on the board's timetable, findings written so a non-accountant can act on them, and no adjustment sprung on you at signing. Every issue is raised while there is still time to deal with it.
For the year ended 31 December 2024
In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the company's financial position and results.
Draft
For the year ended 31 December 2025
In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the company's financial position and results.
In review
For the year ended 31 December 2026
In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the company's financial position and results.
Unqualified
Why audits go wrong
They drag because of three ordinary things. Every one of them is avoidable, and every one is our job to prevent — not yours.
The audit cannot test what it cannot see. When reconciliations land in week three, the deadline moves — the auditor does not. We agree the full request list before fieldwork starts, then chase it so you are never the bottleneck.
An adjustment raised on signing day is a fire drill for everyone. We put issues in writing as we find them, ranked by how much they matter, while there is still room to respond.
A clean opinion says the numbers are fair. It does not say what nearly went wrong. We write findings in plain language, with the fix beside the fault, so the board can act instead of decode.
External vs internal
People use the word audit for both, but they answer to different people and prove different things. Flip the switch to see where each one fits.
An independent opinion, for the people who rely on your numbers.
Independence rules apply — we cannot audit statements we prepared ourselves.
How fieldwork runs
A real working method, not a promise. This is the order every engagement moves through, from the first request list to the signed opinion.
We map the risks that actually matter for your business, agree what counts as material, and send one request list. You know exactly what we need before we arrive.
We sample transactions, confirm balances with third parties, and trace figures back to their source. Judgement where it counts — not a checklist run for its own sake.
Every issue goes to you in writing as we find it, ranked by significance, with time left to respond. Nothing is saved up for the final meeting.
We finish review, agree the final numbers with you, and issue the opinion your board can put its name to — on the date we committed to.
What we test
Risk is not spread evenly across a set of accounts. These are the areas we look at hardest, because this is where a figure is most likely to be wrong.
Industries
A regulator reading every line, a campus proving its exemptions, a factory floor where value hides in inventory, a hospital that cannot let the back office slip.
Questions
What finance teams want to know before they hand over the file.
Both — though never one firm signing an external opinion on books it also runs, where independence rules forbid it. External audit gives an opinion outsiders rely on; internal audit reports to your board. Tell us what you are trying to prove and to whom, and we will tell you plainly which one you need.
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Email your latest financial statements and trial balance to info@accountaxglobal.com and we will scope the audit and tell you what it will take. We reply within one working day.
