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 PROFIT IMPROVEMENT

Cost Structure Optimization:

Develop staffing models

Develop forecasting models

Identify seasonality

Identify trends

Develop best practices

 

COST RECOVERY

Review Vendor Contracts and match to Vendor Invoices and your company’s Purchase Orders

Work with your vendors for resolution of overpayments

Audit PO/AP Processes

Develop and Implement Recommendations

Conduct annual audits

 HARDWARE/SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Determine System Requirements

Develop RFP

Manage Vendor Selection Process

Manage System Conversion

Train management and staff

SOX

Phase 1 – Assess

-     Map risks to management assertions

-     Develop an understanding of and documenting the logical relationships between accounts and processes or cycles

-     Identify source documents supporting the financial statements e.g. trial balance, consolidation package/tools, etc.

-     Identify Significant Accounts & Processes

-     Identify, and document key risks and controls

-     Develop an understanding of financial processes, the COSO framework and management assertions

 Phase 2 – Document

-     Flowchart financial processes at the activity level.

-     Develop an understanding of and document key financial processes with control points

-     Cross reference back to the risk/control matrices and ensure integration of the documentation

-     Prepare narratives describing the process with references to key activities, controls and other relate documentation

 Phese 3 – Test

-     Develop and identify key controls within documentation.

-     Differentiate the types of controls e.g. automat vs. manual, preventative vs. detective, frequency, primary vs. redundant, etc.

-     Define test criteria, including objectives, protocols and acceptance parameters.

-     Select specific test units from a greater population

-     Develop and execute an audit program

-     Analyze and interpret results.

-     Identify exceptions.  

-     Document evidence-supporting test.