Service overview
Audit & Assurance
In today's highly regulated marketplace, audit and assurance services add value to organisations by providing independent credibility to financial statements, professional advice to management and solutions to improve systems and performance.
How can BDO help?
The BDO international audit approach is designed to focus on key financial areas and to provide clients with constructive ideas for improving internal controls and business systems, thereby adding value to businesses. The difference in the BDO approach can be found within our people and their dedication to tailoring our service to ensure we meet your requirements. At BDO, our partner-led assurance services team is committed to meeting your specific business needs.
The services offered by the Audit and Assurance Services team include:
- External audits
External audits provide added value and assurance to the quality of financial statements for users of your information. - IT, special reports and investigations
Our IT and system specialists add value by critically appraising your systems. By applying BDO audit methodology and process we provide assurance beyond the statutory audit. - Technical accounting services
Through our specialist technical accounting division we are able to offer technical support to your organisation, regardless of whether you are an existing user of our audit services.
The BDO difference...
We offer our clients partner and director-led relationships
Our size genuinely aids our internal communication, compared with the large scale global competitors. Our practice is to establish disciplinary client teams, headed by a client service partner or director. Ensuring you have access to every member of the BDO team is a priority for us.
Helping you achieve your objectives
To us, assurance is more than ticking boxes and ensuring you are compliant with rules and regulations. It's about helping you ensure that every part of your firm is fine-tuned to enable you to achieve your business objectives. BDO Audit & Assurance team members work closely with our tax and corporate Finance specialists. We strongly believe in the 'value add' that should be generated for the audit process.
Gaining the confidence of your stakeholders
We help you gain and maintain the confidence of all your stakeholders - from lenders, shareholders, audit committees to employees -to ensure they are satisfied that you have the necessary controls in place and the strategic vision to assure a successful future.
Coping with an increasingly complex regulatory environment
In an increasingly complex market, where even small errors can mean front-page news, ensuring your business moves forward without risk can be challenging. Our team of experts can advise on corporate audit, section 404 and Sarbanes-Oxley, specialist/regulatory audit, AIFRS, US GAAP and risk assurance and governance.
Keeping on top of global trends and issues
Through our extensive global network, our assurance specialists are kept fully abreast of the issues impacting on businesses globally. This means that whatever the issues or regulatory change, we’ll make sure you know about it and then help you resolve it.
We have extensive international audit experience
BDO is the fifth largest international accounting network. BDO audits subsidiaries of many overseas groups, reporting in countries such as the UK, USA, Germany and Singapore. BDO understands US GAAP and US listing requirements. We are PCOAB registered and the only Australian firm of our size signing audit reports for financial statements lodged with the SEC.