Internal Audit Services

 

We have been doing internal audit since 1987, following the professional guidelines of the US Institute of Internal Auditors. We were busy before some of our clients were even born; and have the scars, war stories, and wizened grey beards to prove it.

 

These days, our know-how gets a boost from Kelly & Yang’s hybrid AI super-intelligence approach, which improves both the quality and speed of our work. Here is where it helps most:

 

• Transactional data audits. Extract, transform, and load. Data cleansing. Analysis of large-volume transaction and master files. Supervisory controls over AI permissions and AI-generated transactions. No row left unturned.

• Written word audits. Regulatory compliance reviews. Corporate policy streamlining. Contract reviews for inconsistencies, allowables/disallowables, and compliance red-flags. No clause left unread.

• Process frontier audits. Agentic AI permissions and transaction limits. Mapping and optimizing workflow efficiency. Eliminating duplication. Highlighting error vulnerabilities. No bottleneck left unchallenged.

• Project implementation audits. Over-reliance on project salesmen and third parties. Avoiding, or at least minimizing, cost and schedule over-runs through auditing project governance. ‘As is’ and ‘to be’ definition. User acceptance testing. Issues logging. No over-runs allowed. 

 

And the results? Improvements to compliance, fraud stoppage, project success, and recovery of historic costs such as duplicate payments amounting to millions across our entire client history.

 

Nothing makes a finance director smile like a cheque they did not know was coming or a staff member redeployed to a more productive role.

 

Then there are the counter-factual savings: the costs which were successfully avoided due to client action on our recommendations.  Probably in the billions. 

 

Every audit is unique and shaped to your needs. For inspiration, browse the checkerboard below of typical assignments clients have asked us to carry out; and the anonymized case studies in our Academy.