Full application audit
Who this is for
Finance and operations teams that rely on a reconciliation management application for bank, clearing, intercompany, or payment matching — and need an independent view of whether the application’s design and use support a reliable period close.
What you receive
- A written findings report organised by severity and owner
- Sampled reconciliations with notes on break ageing, approval paths, and supporting evidence
- A configuration map of matching rules, tolerances, and auto-clear settings that matter to your close
- Access and segregation observations tied to named roles in the application
- A live walkthrough session with your close owners (typically 90 minutes)
Scope included
- Walkthrough of the production (or agreed mirror) reconciliation application
- Interviews with process owners for matching, exceptions, and approvals
- Review of configuration for matching logic, thresholds, and forced clears
- Sampling of completed and aged exception items across recent closes
- Assessment of audit-trail completeness for adjustments and overrides
- Comparison of application behaviour against your documented control intentions
Scope excluded
- Continuous outsourced matching or daily operations support
- Vendor selection or contract negotiation
- Implementation or coding of remediation inside the application
- Statutory financial statement audit opinions
Provider and process
Space Reason practitioners lead the engagement from our Tokyo office. Week one establishes access, entity map, and interview calendar. Weeks two and three focus on configuration review and sampling. Final week consolidates findings and runs the walkthrough.
Duration and delivery
Typical duration is three to five weeks depending on entity count and number of reconciliation modules. Kickoff is usually in person in Tokyo; fieldwork may continue remotely with secure document exchange.
Preparation
Please provide read-only application access (or escorted sessions), a list of reconciliation types in scope, recent close calendars, and contacts for break owners. We share a short readiness checklist after the first call.
Constraints
We need a quiet window away from peak close week for sampling interviews. Multi-language interfaces are fine; findings are delivered in English unless otherwise agreed.
Pricing
Quoted as a fixed fee after a brief scoping call. See Rates for starting ranges by entity and module complexity.
Next step
Request an audit brief with the application name, ledgers in scope, and your next critical close date.