Estimate an Engagement
What Would This Cost?
Tell us roughly where you stand, tick what you need, and we will show you which posture fits, what each part comes to across your entities, and what the work would actually be. It takes a minute and commits you to nothing.
With You. $4,999 one-time.
- Audit ReadinessAudit ReadinessThe Full Internal Audit, per entity, once, at the introductory rate; the multi-entity taper applies to it. Support is per live process, per month, while it runs — one buyer’s review or one audit is one process, and two buyers looking at once are two.the Full Internal Audit, per entity, once, at the introductory rate
- $4,999 once
What this work is, and is not
We do not perform the audit; getting you ready for it and supporting you through it is the point of this category. An audit, a review, or a compilation is an attest engagement and has to come from your independent accountants — we are the firm on your side of the table before they arrive and until they leave.
A Full Internal Audit is our own examination of your books, your schedules and your evidence, on your side of the table, so that the independent audit or a buyer’s diligence finds what it needs. It is not the audit itself — an audit, a review or a compilation is an attest engagement and comes from your independent accountants; we get you ready for it and support you through it, and we do not perform it.
What the engagement would be, and who does what
With You, across a single company. The work is shared, inside your process: part of it is your team's and part of it is ours, and your team signs off as we go.
Audit Readiness
Shared — we build the schedules and the evidence file and run the request list; your team fetches the evidence and approves what goes to the auditor.
The Full Internal Audit, per entity, once, at the introductory rate: the schedules built and tied, prior periods cleaned, the evidence filed under the question it answers.
| At With You | Who |
|---|---|
| Write down what your auditor will ask for, what is missing, and what it would take | Us |
| Build the supporting schedules and tie them to the ledger: fixed assets, prepaids, accruals, debt, revenue | Us |
| Write down the control environment: the documentation, the walkthroughs, the support for management's control attestations | Us |
| Fetch the evidence and attach it to the transactions it supports | You |
| Prepare, manage and fill the document request list | Us |
| Be the audit team's single point of contact through fieldwork | You |
| Fix management-letter points in the month they were raised | Us |
| Make the representations, and sign off what goes to the auditor | You |
If you are not sure where your books should live, that is a normal thing not to know yet, and it is part of the first conversation rather than a decision you make now.
We will put this in writing, with the scope named, before you decide anything.
The final sign-off is your management’s on every posture; we never sign off on the books or on any engagement.
What you could take off
- Autopay takes 3% off and paying by bank transfer 2%: with both, $4,749 once.
This estimate: https://accounting-advisor.com/estimate?entities=1&situation=short-handed&cats=audit-readiness
An estimate, not a quote. The engagement letter is the quote, and it comes after we have seen your books. Every figure is from the published price list.
What This Is, and What It Is Not
This is an estimate built from our published rates — the same ones on the pricing page, applied to what you told us. It is arithmetic, not a proposal.
A quote comes after we have looked at your books, and it arrives as an engagement letter naming what we do, what stays with your team, when it is due and what it costs. A web page is not one, and we would rather say so here than let a number on a screen do work it cannot do. What happens after you write to us →
If what you described does not fit any of the three postures, or if the honest answer is the software with Review rather than a bigger engagement, we will tell you. Sometimes the answer is no.
The first conversation is a look at your books and an honest answer about whether we are the right firm.