Accounting for CPA · Australia & NZ
Auditing Services
Hand your auditors clean, cross-referenced workpapers and a fully answered PBC list — so fieldwork closes on schedule, not in overtime.
Overview
Auditing Services for Australia & NZ
Audit season rarely fails because of the opinion — it fails in the preparation. Vouching support, tying trial balances to lead schedules, chasing signed confirmations, and rebuilding reconciliations that don't foot: these eat the hours that should go to judgment and review. AccountsUp takes that preparation off your plate. Our dedicated teams assemble audit-ready workpapers, tie every schedule back to the general ledger, and deliver a PBC list that arrives answered, indexed, and referenced — so your engagement team walks into fieldwork ready to test, not ready to reconcile.
We work as an extension of your audit or finance team, inside the files and platforms you already use — QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, and your document-management or workpaper software. Every deliverable follows a consistent referencing convention, carries a clear audit trail, and is reviewed before it reaches your partner or your external auditors. AI-assisted checks flag foot errors, unreconciled variances, and missing support early; experienced accountants apply the judgment, tie-outs, and professional formatting that a machine cannot.
Whether you are a CPA firm smoothing a lumpy busy season or a growing company preparing for its first financial-statement audit, the goal is the same: fewer review notes, faster turnaround on PBC requests, and a workpaper package a reviewer can navigate without a single follow-up email.
- Fewer reviewer and partner notes on preparation quality
- Fieldwork that closes on the planned schedule instead of running into overtime
- A PBC list that arrives answered and indexed rather than open
- Busy-season capacity added without hiring or carrying off-season headcount
What's included
Everything the auditing services engagement covers
Audit-Ready Workpapers
Fully indexed, cross-referenced workpaper sets — lead schedules, supporting detail, and tie-outs to the trial balance — formatted to your firm's templates and referencing standards.
Account Reconciliations & Tie-Outs
Bank, credit-card, intercompany, and balance-sheet reconciliations that foot and agree, with every reconciling item explained and supported so reviewers stop at 'signed off,' not 'explain this.'
Lead & Supporting Schedules
Cash, AR, AP, fixed-asset rollforwards, accruals, prepaids, and debt schedules built from the GL and tied to the trial balance, ready to drop into fieldwork.
PBC List Fulfillment
We manage your Prepared-By-Client request list end to end — gathering, labeling, and uploading each item so your auditors get answered requests instead of open ones.
Confirmations & Vouching Support
Preparation and tracking of bank, AR, and AP confirmations and legal letters, plus pulling and organizing invoices, contracts, and support for detail testing and sampling.
Reviewer & Partner Support
We clear review notes, answer auditor questions during fieldwork, and turn around follow-up schedules the same day — keeping the engagement moving instead of stalling on open items.
Roll-Forward & Prior-Year Alignment
Prior-year workpapers rolled forward, opening balances agreed, and current-year variances flagged with explanations — so year-over-year movement is documented before it's questioned.
Consolidations & Adjusting Entries
Consolidation schedules, elimination entries, and audit-adjusting journal entries prepared and traced through to a supportable, reviewer-friendly final trial balance.
Why AccountsUp
The advantage of auditing services done right
A Dedicated Team, Not a Ticket Queue
The same named accountants learn your files, templates, and referencing conventions each season — so quality compounds instead of resetting with every request.
AI-Assisted, Human-Reviewed
Automated checks catch foot errors, casting mistakes, and unreconciled variances early; experienced preparers apply the judgment and tie-outs that pass reviewer scrutiny.
We Work Inside Your Stack
No rip-and-replace. We operate directly in QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, and your workpaper and document-management tools, following your file structure.
Capacity That Scales With Busy Season
Add reviewed preparation capacity for your busy-season crunch without hiring, onboarding, or carrying headcount you don't need in the off-season.
AI-powered, expert-led
The reliability of an in-house team, without the overhead
AccountsUp pairs dedicated, named accounting teams with AI-assisted accuracy checks — so your workpapers arrive both judgment-sound and mechanically clean. We work inside your existing stack (QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, ADP) rather than forcing a migration, operate under enterprise-grade security with role-based access and full audit trails, and serve CPA firms and growing businesses across the US, Canada, UK, and Australia. The result: fewer review notes, faster fieldwork, and preparation you can put your name on.
How it works
A clear path from first call to steady delivery
Scope & Onboard
We map your audit calendar, templates, referencing conventions, and PBC list, then set up secure access to your files, ledgers, and workpaper platform.
Assemble & Reconcile
Our team builds lead schedules, reconciles accounts, gathers PBC items, and ties every figure back to the trial balance and general ledger.
Review & Tie-Out
A senior reviewer runs AI-assisted checks for foot errors and unreconciled variances, verifies cross-references, and signs off before anything reaches you.
Deliver & Support Fieldwork
You receive an indexed, referenced workpaper package with the PBC list answered — then we stay on to clear review notes and follow-up requests.
Works inside your stack
We operate in the platforms you already run
Industries we serve
Auditing Services shaped around your sector in Australia & NZ
What clients say
Trusted by firms and businesses worldwide
“Our bookkeeping and monthly reporting are finally accurate and on time. AccountsUp feels like an in-house team.”
Questions
Auditing Services, answered
Do you replace our auditors or perform the audit itself?
No. We provide preparation and support — assembling audit-ready workpapers, reconciliations, schedules, and PBC items. Independence rules mean the audit opinion stays with your engagement team or external auditors; we make their fieldwork faster by handing them clean, tied-out, reviewer-ready files.
How do you keep our financial data secure?
We operate under enterprise-grade controls: role-based access so staff see only their assigned files, multi-factor authentication, encrypted data in transit and at rest, full audit trails on every action, and secured, office-based operations. We work inside your systems, so sensitive data stays in your environment rather than being copied out.
Which accounting and workpaper platforms do you work in?
We work directly inside QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, and ADP, and adapt to most document-management and workpaper tools your firm uses. Because we operate in your existing stack and follow your file structure and referencing conventions, there's no migration and no new software for your team to learn.
How quickly can you turn around workpapers and PBC items during fieldwork?
Once onboarded, routine reconciliations and supporting schedules typically turn around within one to two business days, and same-day for follow-up requests during active fieldwork. We agree specific turnaround targets during scoping so your engagement calendar has firm, committed dates to plan around.
We're preparing for our first-ever audit. Can you help us get ready?
Yes. First audits are where preparation matters most. We build your reconciliations and lead schedules from the ground up, organize supporting documentation, walk through the PBC list line by line, and flag gaps before auditors do — so your first fieldwork experience is orderly rather than a scramble.
Will the same people work on our files each season, and how does pricing work?
Yes — you get a dedicated team that learns your templates and recurring judgment calls, so quality improves year over year. On pricing, we scope by engagement volume, complexity, and turnaround needs, then propose a dedicated-team or per-engagement model with transparent rates before any work begins.
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