Control and management of your organization's internal audit function belong with you. But with staff turnover, high travel, special projects, acquisitions and limitations on permanent head count levels, even the hardest working in-house teams can benefit from additional support. Add information technology to the mix, and it can be difficult to run your department without help from the outside.

LSH can work with you on an hourly or project basis to . . .

Provide specialized skills on an as-needed basis

• Elevate current internal audit service levels without adding permanent head count
• Coordinate remote location audits cost-effectively
• Assist external auditors
• Perform routine internal audit tasks while you focus on more complex issues
• Assist with special audit requests from business units or departments
• Act as an advisor to ensure your company's departments stay abreast of the most current audit issues and approaches
• Perform peer reviews

Components of a well-managed internal audit function include:

• Consulting for redesigning business processes (in conjunction with LSH's Business Services Division)
• Determining opportunities for increasing operational efficiencies
• Assessing and monitoring management controls (financial/administrative/operational)
• Recommending constructive and actionable solutions for improving controls and meeting business objectives
• Ensuring compliance with policies, procedures, laws and regulations
• Reducing expensive financial audit hours
• Acting as a deterrent to fraud by its very presence.

Lee, Sperling, Hisamune
550 North Brand Boulevard, Suite 525
Glendale, California 91203
Phone: (818) 507-6645 - Fax: (818) 507-7891
Email: lsh@leesperling.com