Posted 06 November 2020 - 04:55 PM
Interestingly enough we actually do this for our clients.
But only as a review mostly - as internals are so often a bit more intimate as in the eyes are at the plant and not here in our office.
Handling it fully like one of your managers is saying to do brings into the mix a really big thing at audit time when you have an auditor doing a drill down and they ask how you arrived at this and how you arrived at that and you say - Oh, our consultant or 3rd party provider did that for us, seriously unless you can figure out a good way to handle this it could be a sticky point in the audit process.
Most times we do a review only and do not do the actually close out, but review the close out - I think you would find that more advantagous if you were to go this route.
Frankly, unless you are handling loads of items I'd be more apt to keep it in house with you and your team.
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