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Five business days as standard, and faster if you have a deadline. For formal RFPs we work to your submission date. If a firm can quote audit preparation within an hour of meeting you, they are quoting a template rather than your organisation.

Entity type, revenue, fiscal year end, and what is driving the requirement. For audit preparation it also helps to know the number of funding sources or programmes, whether federal awards are involved, whether a Single Audit is in play, and who prepares your financial statements today. If you have last year's report and management letter, those answer most of it at once.

Not unless the scope changes, and if it does you will hear about it before any additional work happens rather than in an invoice afterwards. The usual cause of a genuine scope change is records that turn out to be in materially worse condition than described. We look at that during scoping specifically to avoid the surprise.

Yes, on request, and matched to your sector where we can. Audit committees are right to ask for them. We ask clients before giving out their details, which occasionally adds a day.

That is one of the more useful conversations we have. Bring the covenant, the grant agreement, the bylaws or the letter that prompted the question and we will read it with you. A meaningful number of these end with the conclusion that a review is sufficient, or that no audit is required at all this year. Where one is required, we prepare you for it and help you engage an independent auditor.

Book a scoping call using the form on this page, or call us. We will ask what you need, who is asking you for it, and what condition your records are in, then tell you what the engagement involves and what it will cost before anything begins.