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Client stories

What finance teams noticed during fieldwork

Comments below refer to specific engagements — opinions, walkthroughs, counts, and readiness work — not generic praise.

“They spent the first morning on our receivables ageing rather than a slide deck. We still owed them a few supplier confirmations by week three, yet the draft opinion landed before our bank covenant date.”
Mei-Ling Chen · Finance director, electronics trader in Neihu
Statutory financial statement audit
“The internal control walkthrough caught a dual-approval gap on vendor master changes. Fixing it took two weeks of policy work, which felt tedious, but March fieldwork ran noticeably quieter.”
Arthur Wu · Controller, food distributor
Internal control walkthrough
“Inventory observation in our Taoyuan warehouse was blunt about unfinished bin cards. I would have preferred softer wording in the management letter, but the count adjustments were accurate.”
Hana Lin · Operations lead, home-goods wholesaler
Inventory and cash observation
“Audit readiness checkup forced us to finish bank reconciliations before the external team arrived. The fee was clear up front and the document checklist matched what our statutory auditors later requested.”
Jonas Berg · CFO, Nordic subsidiary in Taipei
Audit readiness checkup
“Tax compliance file review found withholding mismatches on two contractor invoices. Not dramatic, yet enough that we corrected the file before submission.”
Szu-Yu Huang · Accounting manager, design studio
Tax compliance file review

Extended story

Neihu trader — clearing receivables before a covenant test

A mid-sized electronics trader needed a statutory opinion before its bank reviewed revolving credit covenants. The ledger held multi-currency receivables and several aged disputes with overseas buyers.

We opened with ageing analysis and customer confirmation tracking rather than a broad process narrative. Two large balances needed shipping evidence that lived with the warehouse team, not finance. Once those packets arrived, substantive testing moved quickly.

The draft opinion was ready five days before the bank’s document deadline. Supplier confirmations still trailed by a few replies; we documented alternative procedures and noted the residual risk in the management letter without delaying issuance.

Extended story

Taoyuan warehouse — count day with unfinished bin cards

A home-goods wholesaler asked for inventory observation ahead of its year-end audit. The morning count revealed bin cards that had not been updated after a weekend transfer between aisles.

We paused directed testing until supervisors corrected the cards in our presence, then resumed sampling of high-value SKUs. The management letter described the control break in plain language. Adjustments to the compiled listing were modest but necessary; the client later tightened transfer slips before the next count.