N° 02 — Risk Advisory
Internal audit, controls and process advisory for businesses that have outgrown informal oversight — delivered by CAs with IT-audit and SAP depth, and backed by automation that keeps the controls running after we leave.
Point of view
A traditional internal audit tells you what went wrong last quarter. Useful — but the same findings repeat year after year because the underlying process never changes.
Acugate treats every finding as a design problem: fix the control, rewrite the SOP, and wherever possible automate the check so it runs continuously instead of annually.
"A finding that repeats is a process that was never fixed."
Nine service lines
Engage a single review or build a multi-year internal audit plan — each line is scoped independently.
Risk-based audit plans, fieldwork and audit-committee reporting — outsourced or co-sourced with your team.
Design, documentation and testing of financial controls to meet Companies Act requirements.
End-to-end reviews of P2P, O2C, HR and inventory cycles — with SOPs your teams actually follow.
Risk registers, heat maps and mitigation ownership — a living framework, not a shelf document.
Fraud risk assessments, red-flag analytics and investigation support when something looks wrong.
Statutory and regulatory compliance health-checks with a prioritised remediation tracker.
ITGC reviews, SAP authorisation and configuration audits, and application control testing.
Vendor due diligence, contract compliance audits and ongoing vendor control monitoring.
Automated, always-on control testing built with our AI & Automation practice — sampling becomes census.
How an engagement runs
We agree the audit universe, rank it by risk and set a calendar — you approve the plan before fieldwork begins.
Data-led testing with interim flash reports — no surprises saved for the final presentation.
Remediation tracking, SOP updates and automation of recurring checks so the finding doesn't return next year.
Quality assurance
Acugate is a member of Audit Grid — The Operating System, an ecosystem built for the connected audit era.
At the client's option, an independent quality review of our risk advisory engagements is performed by the Audit Grid team — a second set of senior, external eyes on scope, methodology, evidence and conclusions before the report reaches your board.
Few boutique firms invite independent scrutiny of their own work. We do, because it gives your audit committee something rare: assurance on the assurance.
"Assurance on the assurance — at your option, on any engagement."
Why us
Every engagement is directly owned by the firm's senior leadership — your work is never handed down the ladder.
Chartered accountants who build software and design systems — the translation gap disappears.
If a task is repetitive, we automate it — your fees buy judgement, not data entry.
Tally, Zoho, QuickBooks, Xero, SAP, NetSuite — we work in your stack, not around it.
Domestic depth with proven offshore delivery for UK firms — same team, same standards.
Turnaround commitments in writing, live dashboards to verify them. Trust, then verify.
Next step
A rapid diagnostic across your key cycles — you get a risk-ranked findings summary and a clear view of what to fix first.
Book the health-check