Controls Assurance

Knowledge of control weaknesses and their possible consequences is critical to avoiding loss in your business. Kingston Smith Consulting offers a suite of services to support your business in understanding its control exposures. Where an incident has occurred we have the technical specialists to investigate the root cause of the problem. Where a third party is seeking assurance on your business as a supplier, we can perform the attestation work to give them comfort. Our services include:

• Control reviews, from single reviews of a high concern area to a complete internal audit or controls assurance service as your outsource provider. Kingston Smith Consulting’s range of technical skills combined with the experience its consultants have in delivering controls assurance makes its audit service highly flexible and commercial, focused on delivering high value control recommendations to your business.
• Assisting you in meeting the demands your clients make for formal controls assurance. Working to the internationally recognized SAS 70 standards, and its UK counterpart AAF 01/06, we can develop these assurance reports for you, test the controls they contain and through our associated firm Kingston Smith LLP perform the external audit opinion required.
• Investigating loss, error or fraud incidents. Our consultants will employ forensic tools to give you clarity on the facts and advice on practical fixes that will close the exposure in the most commercial way possible.
• Training solutions to improve the capability of your in-house internal audit and controls teams.
• Formal reviews compliant with governance "best practice", including Quality Assurance Reviews to Institute of Internal Audit Standards and Audit Committee Effectiveness reviews.