Audit Support Services
At Mlangeni and Associates (Pty) Ltd, we understand the pressure that audit season brings. Whether you’re preparing for a statutory external audit, facing resource constraints, or simply want to close audit gaps before the big bad wolf comes knocking, our Audit Support Services are designed to step in exactly when and where you need us.
- What Are Audit Support Services?
Audit Support Services provide temporary or project-based audit expertise to assist your internal finance or audit teams. This can include preparing audit evidence, cleaning up working papers, resolving prior year audit findings, implementing better controls, and ensuring that your financial statements and systems are audit-ready before the external auditors arrive.
Whether you need extra hands on deck or an experienced team to run a high-level internal audit assignment before the external audit begins, we can plug in seamlessly, working side-by-side with your team to ensure a smoother, faster, and less painful audit process.
- What We Offer You as the Client
Our Audit Support Services include:
- High-level review of financials and controls
- Gap identification and resolution
- Risk mapping and key focus area identification
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- Compilation of working papers aligned with ISA and your auditor’s templates
- Supporting documentation for all balance sheet items
- Internal reconciliations and lead schedules
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- Assist in documenting key controls and walkthroughs
- Support with control deficiency remediation
- Coordinate control testing where applicable
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- Respond to audit queries
- Provide reconciliations and explanations on management’s behalf
- Assist with follow-up and closure of audit findings
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- Support in closing audit adjustments
- Implement auditor recommendations
- Build internal audit readiness playbooks for future periods
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- Who Is This For?
Our Audit Support Services are ideal for:
- Finance teams that are understaffed or overwhelmed during audit season
- Companies facing their first audit or a change in audit firm
- Group consolidations or complex business structures that require extra capacity
- Firms that have been through a difficult audit in the past and want to improve
- Entities requiring objective pre-audit diagnostics before the external team arrives
- Why Choose Mlangeni and Associates?
- Our team is led by qualified Chartered Accountants with real audit and industry experience
- We speak the language of external auditors because we’ve been there
- We know what they’ll look for, and how to prepare your team accordingly
- We reduce stress and increase audit efficiency
- We deliver professionalism, clarity, and calm in high-pressure situations
