Audit support services for Australian companies
Audit season, without pulling your finance team off everything else.
Audits rarely drag because the numbers are wrong. They drag because evidence is scattered, schedules are rebuilt from scratch every year, and auditor queries sit for a week.
Business Avengers prepares the entire audit file, manages the PBC list and turns around auditor requests. We do this directly for businesses, and behind the scenes for accounting firms whose clients are audited, delivered as your firm's work.
Why audits cost more than the audit fee
The auditor's invoice is the visible cost. The rest sits inside your team, or inside your firm's recovery rate.
Senior finance staff rebuilding the same schedules every year
Evidence scattered across drives, inboxes and systems
Auditor queries answered slowly, extending fieldwork and the fee
Reconciling differences discovered in the middle of fieldwork, not before
Month-end and reporting slipping while everyone works on the audit
Prior year adjustments repeating because nothing was documented
A prepared audit file shortens fieldwork, reduces queries, and keeps your finance function running while the audit is underway.
What we handle, and what it means for you
Our audit support service covers audit readiness assessment, PBC list management, balance sheet schedules, reconciliations and clearing, working paper preparation, fixed asset and lease schedules, cut-off testing support, auditor query turnaround, year-end close support and post-audit remediation.
Right for you if…
If two or more of these sound like your finance function, audit support services with Business Avengers will pay for itself inside the first quarter.
- ✓Your audit runs long every year and the fee keeps rising
- ✓The same two people carry the entire audit on top of their day job
- ✓Working papers are rebuilt from scratch each year
- ✓Auditor queries take days to answer during fieldwork
- ✓You have had prior year adjustments or repeat findings
- ✓You are audited for the first time and do not know what to prepare
How an audit support engagement runs
An audit support engagement runs in three phases across pre-audit, fieldwork and post-audit, so your finance team stays on business-as-usual while the audit runs.
Pre-audit: We assess readiness, close reconciling items and build the schedule pack.
Fieldwork: We manage the PBC list and turn around auditor queries with your named contact.
Post-audit: Adjustments posted, findings documented, and the file carried forward for next year.
We support your audit. We are not your auditor, independence is preserved at all times.
Questions CFOs ask us
Questions about outsourced audit support in Australia: working with your auditor, evidence standards, query turnaround and first-time audits.
Do you replace our external auditor?
Can you work with our existing auditor?
When should we start?
Do you prepare financial statements too?
Is this a one-off or ongoing?
Audit Support Services in practice
Real Australian businesses, real numbers, and the thinking behind the work. Read how finance functions were rebuilt on audit support services and what it saved them.
Resolving a five year Shopify reconciliation backlog
Five years and over a million unreconciled transactions across Shopify, PayPal, Afterpay and Zip, cleared and automated into a repeatable monthly routine.
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Read the article→Get your audit file ready before fieldwork starts.
Book a 30-minute call. We will review last year's audit, tell you where the time went, and show you what a prepared file looks like.
Other services
Most clients start with one function and add more once they see the reporting rhythm. Every service below is delivered by the same dedicated Australian-managed team, on the same fixed monthly cost, with no lock-in.