Internal Audit Support for Growing Businesses

Internal audit support is the function responsible for planning, coordinating, and reporting on internal audit engagements. It encompasses risk-based planning, stakeholder coordination, and findings reporting.

Outsourced internal audit support means engaging an external firm to manage part or all of your internal audit function, rather than performing that work with in-house employees.

An engagement typically includes risk-based audit planning, audit calendar management, fieldwork coordination, findings documentation, and audit committee reporting.

A risk-based audit plan prioritizes audit engagements according to the areas of greatest organizational risk, ensuring audit resources are focused effectively.

Audit scope definition outlines the objectives, boundaries, and areas to be reviewed within a specific internal audit engagement.

Findings are documented, assigned for remediation, followed up on a defined schedule, and tracked through resolution.

Audit committee reporting summarizes audit plan status, key findings, and remediation progress for review by the audit committee.

Yes. We serve as liaison with management throughout the audit process to support information requests and fieldwork coordination.

Yes. We support draft audit report preparation, findings documentation, and coordination of management responses.

Yes. We frequently support businesses building their first risk-based audit plan and internal audit calendar.

Yes. We support internal audit engagements for multi-entity organizations, including entity-level scoping and consolidated reporting.

We work with leading audit management and GRC platforms alongside common ERP systems including NetSuite, SAP, and Microsoft Dynamics, among others.

Yes. Most Expertise Accelerated internal audit engagements are structured as fixed-fee projects, which provides budget predictability for the business.

We serve Consumer Packaged Goods, manufacturing, retail, wholesale, e-commerce, professional services, restaurant and food service, and real estate businesses, among others.

Most engagements begin within two to four weeks of the initial agreement, depending on the complexity of the audit scope and current planning maturity.

Yes. Internal Audit Support focuses on internally driven risk-based audits and management reporting, while External Audit Support focuses on preparing for and managing the external financial statement audit. Both are delivered by the same CPA-led team.