Business Assurance

Our partners and staff are dedicated to advising, consulting and solving the complex problems businesses are facing in today's changing market place. Business assurance is essentially about using systems to improve operational effectiveness and manage risk. At its heart is the belief that, when applied well, management systems help to improve business performance in a quantifiable way. By understanding what really matters to organisations and their stakeholders, [organisations can] improve their systems, and businesses, simultaneously. Business assurance sets out to bridge the common gap between the management system and the business system. This reflects the true intent of quality, health, safety and security assurance standards and ensures they deliver the benefits they were designed to offer.

How can we help ?

Our Business Assurance practice helps clients to build value, manage risk and improve their performance. Drawing on the talents of our people, our Business Assurance team provides a full range of assurance services to leading global, national and local companies and to public institutions.

Internal Audit

Working with organizations to strengthen their internal control and risk management, assessment and monitoring. Our services are led by internal audit professionals from leading Fortune companies and Big Four accounting firms.

-          IIA Standards

-          World-Class Performance (Best Practices)

-          Application and Data Center

-          COBIT Compliance

-          Security

-          Network

-          Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Planning

Systems and Process Assurance, Process Stabilization, Process simplification

Working with our external audit teams to assess the effectiveness of the security and controls operating in key business processes supported by financial applications and the relevant technical infrastructure.

-          Japan Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

-          Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

-          Subject Matter Expertise

-          Gaps Analysis

-          COSO Survey

Risk Management

Leveraging financial analysis to provide insightful advice and assisting clients make major decisions with an integrated view of risk and value.

Assessment/auditing services (internal/external, systems/process,..) - Working with the business transaction team to provide IT Due Diligence to identify the key risks and opportunities facing businesses being acquired or sold.

-          Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessments

-          Business Process Assessments

Quality systems simplification

In a rapidly changing world, business cannot stand still. There is an ever increasing need to evolve, to move from prescriptive instructions intended to satisfy narrow compliance standards, to systems designed to ensure delivery against organizational commitments. This requires broader, deeper and more intelligent systems with flexibility in their application. We help our clients in designing quality systems simplification.

-          Simplified Documentation

-          Training and Certification

-          Quality Management Systems (ITIL, ISO, CMMI)

Independent Perspectives