Audit & Assurance · UAE
Independent assurance that stakeholders and regulators accept.
Independent assurance built on a real understanding of the business, its risks and its controls — delivered to a timetable you can plan the year around.
10 capabilities in this practice
Discuss audit & assuranceThe problem
An audit that arrives as a surprise every year
Audit becomes painful when it is treated as an event rather than a consequence of how the year was run. Requests land late, schedules are rebuilt from scratch, and judgements taken eleven months ago have to be reconstructed from memory. The work is the same either way; only the cost and the disruption change.
Business impact
What it costs to leave alone.
- Management time lost
- The finance team spends weeks answering questions instead of running the business.
- Findings that could have been avoided
- Control weaknesses surface in the report rather than being fixed when they appeared.
- Delayed filings and decisions
- Lenders, investors and regulators all wait on the same set of signed accounts.
Our approach
How we work on it.
- Risk-based, not checklist-based
- Effort goes where the risk of material error actually sits, which is rarely spread evenly across the ledger.
- Planned early, requested once
- A single agreed request list, issued early, rather than a stream of questions through the fieldwork.
- Findings you can act on
- Control observations come with the fix and the owner, not just the observation.
Capabilities
Everything in Audit & Assurance.
Each of these is a discrete piece of work. Most engagements combine several.
External Audit
Statutory Audit
Internal Audit
Financial Statement Audit
Internal Controls
Risk-Based Audit
Compliance Audit
Due Diligence
Agreed-Upon Procedures
Assurance
One capability has a detailed page — the linked one above.
Process
How an engagement runs.
Four stages. You know which one you are in and what closes it.
Planning and risk assessment
Understand the business and its cycles, identify where material error could arise, and agree scope and timetable.
Interim work
Controls testing and early substantive work, so year-end is not the first time anyone looks.
Fieldwork
Evidence gathered against the plan, with queries raised and cleared as they arise.
Completion and reporting
Financial statements, the audit opinion, and a management letter that is worth reading.
Deliverables
What you receive.
- Audited financial statements and audit opinion
- Management letter with control observations and owners
- Agreed request list issued before fieldwork
- Internal controls assessment
- Board or audit committee reporting pack
Related
Audit & Assurance, in context
Related industries
- Financial ServicesRegulatory reporting, AML and governance under supervision.
- ConstructionContract revenue, retentions and claims, accounted for correctly.
- ManufacturingStandard costing, inventory integrity and capacity decisions.
- HealthcarePayer reconciliation, clinical governance and cost per case.
- Family BusinessesGovernance, succession and structure across generations.
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Next step
Talk to someone who does audit & assurance.
A short conversation establishes whether there is a real question here, who should answer it, and what it will take.
Not ready for a meeting? Ask one specific question instead.
What follows
- A person in the relevant practice reads it, not a routing queue.
- One reply that already contains a view, not a request to book a call.
- A written scope and fee basis, or a straight answer that there is no work to do.
- Sunday – Thursday, 9:00 – 18:00 GST