Audit & Assurance
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OUR SERVICES
Audit & Assurance
The review is critical to managing trust in both your organization and in investors relationship. It must keep pace with a quick developing corporate reporting environment . We use quality audit methodology that is designed to comply with the International Standards on Auditing, and align with new standards as necessary. MAS Consulting relentless focus on quality, independence, transparency and advanced methodology is – like all our services – designed to ensure compliance with professional standards, as well as optimize value for your organisation and your stakeholders.
Our Firm Provides Variety of Audit and Assurance services to our clients.
Statutory & External Audit
We design a customized audit plan that concentrates on the business areas significant to your financial statements and that are critical to your risk profile. We create value that makes a real difference to our client’s business. Quality audits that bring unexpected and far-reaching benefits do not come from an unthinking compliance mindset but from a knowledgeable, questioning, imaginative and insightful approach.
The result is not only an efficient audit – it is also one that we believe will be effective. Our early identification of business and control vulnerabilities and opportunities makes it possible for us to focus our audit effort on those areas of greatest risk. Our view of our clients’ organizations is broad and deep, and we look behind the numbers to consider what they mean for the business as a whole. We use the audit to explore and think more widely about our clients’ businesses and the potential issues they face. This understanding enables us to offer new solutions to our clients’ problems, to help them learn from what has happened and prepare them for, or better still help them avoid, issues in the future
The important features of our audit approach include:
- Audit methodology and documentation approach: our methodology, approach and knowledge and technology tools enable our professionals to deliver a consistent, high-quality audit.
- Excellence in audit execution: to train our teams to appropriately apply our audit methodology and tools, we have developed an intensive client-by-client training approach that we call “Audit Quality”.
- Commitment to quality and controls: the responsibility for the quality of our audits rests with each of our audit partners and every member of our client teams. Their personal commitment to compliance with the highest professional ethics, standards and our firm’s quality controls is the foundation of our commitment to professional excellence.
Internal Audit
We provide outsourced Internal Audit Services to all Industries. The advantage is that the head of internal auditor will be independent and objective in reporting to the Directors and CEOs. It is essential for all organizations to strike a balance between compliance and business improvement. Our internal audit team will appraise the performance of how your company’s internal audit functions compare with leading practices in Pakistan and the World. Our teams will Identify target areas for performance improvement and make recommendations
We provide the following Internal Audit Services:
- Internal audit outsourcing — we deploy our own team on the clients premises and provide advice on the design and implementation of improvements to address deficiencies or gaps in processes and controls that have been identified as a result of an internal audit-monitor project or an internal audit risk assessment.
- Internal audit transformation — our team trains your Internal Audit Department so as that it is able to provide better services to the management. We help you in achieving an efficient and effective internal audit department.
Internal Controls
We design, implement and monitor Internal Controls for all types of Industries. Our team of professionals assists you the Internal Controls efficiently and effectively thereby increasing Value for Money.
We Implement
- Financial controls,
- Strategic controls,
- Operational controls
- Compliance controls
We develop control manual and provide training workshops in this regard. We also assist in Internal controls and regulatory compliance so as to evaluate the operating effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting, identifying control deficiencies and formulating appropriate action plans across the company.
Forensic Audit
A forensic audit is an examination and evaluation of a firm’s or individual’s financial records to derive evidence that can be used in a court of law or legal proceeding.
The business landscape is getting complicated by the time and so the need of forensic auditing arises. Forensic auditing is the next level highly specialized auditing services because it requires in-depth knowledge and expertise into both financial accounting and investigation matters as well as suspicious and unethical patterns of abuse. It is important for business owners to understand the difference between suspicion and facts and to gather the required evidence in the business world to find the truth as early as possible.
- 1.Reviewing Public Documents and Doing Background Checks. …
- 2.Conducting Interviews. …
- 3.Gathering Information from Trustworthy Sources. …
- 4. Analyzing Evidence. …
- 5.Surveillance. …
- 6.Going Undercover. …
- 7. Analyzing the Financial Statements.
Other Audits & Review Engagements
A review engagement may help the accountant to report weaknesses, to the management, that come to their attention and provide limited assurance that no material modifications required to the financial statements in conformity with the financial reporting framework.
our team makes enquirers of management and others, review all material items in the financial statements, and perform analytical procedures to gain
(a) better understanding of plausible relationships of recorded amounts and
b) degree of assurance that:
- the F/S give a true and fair view
- the F/S comply with the chosen financial reporting framework
Review Engagement Procedures include:
- Inquiries as to the accounting practices and principles and factors which might lead to increased risk that the F/S may contain material misstatement.
- Procedures for recording the financial information’s.
- Suitability of Accounting estimates.
- Undisclosed related party transactions.
- Going concern problems.
- Complex, unusual or significant transactions or events.
- Actions taken at directors’ meetings.
- Management Written representations regarding the accuracy of all information given:
- Management’s responsibility for internal control and to prevent and detect fraud
- Incidence of fraud
- Analytical procedures regarding comparisons
- Information related to subsequent events
- Ratios from recorded amounts and their Plausible relationships
