How To Obtain Audit Clearance Within 15 Working Days Post Year-end


Annual reporting is seldom an area where the accounting function scores many goals. The annual report is an important regulatory and stewardship requirement.
It should be completed expediently and should not consume scarce accounting resources for inordinately long periods of time. This whitepaper will show you that obtaining audit clearance within 15 working days or less is possible by tackling your year-end bottlenecks.


David Parmenter has helped accounting teams across the world to improve efficiency with their budgeting and monthly reporting processes and thus it is appropriate to now address timely annual reporting. He will be sharing some of the breakthroughs that your peers have made in this critical area.

What you will gain

  • Access to electronic versions of all templates
  • speed up your annual reporting process
  • tackle your year-end bottlenecks
  • use the comprehensive annual reporting checklist
  • squeeze out more value from the audit process

Contents

  • better practice annual reporting timetables
  • benefits of a hard closes on month 11 results
  • critical work that should be done in advance
  • how to organise yourself and the auditors
  • the role of the audit co-ordinator

Table of Contents

  1. Background
  2. Organising The Audit Interface
  3. Efficient Year-End Processes
  4. Speeding up the Reporting Supply Chain
  5. A Quick 12th Month Report - By Working Day 3 Or Less
  6. Presenter’s Biography
  7. Appendix 1 Useful Letters
  8. Appendix 2 Checklist Of Implementation Steps To Reduce Month-End Reporting Time Frames
  9. Appendix 3 Month End Bottlenecks And Techniques To Get Around Them