Assurance and business advisory

At Beames & Associates we want the quality of our work to enhance your brand. So when it comes to audits, we give them the respect they deserve. This means we don’t treat them as a training ground for our staff or as a way to sell our other services, and we don’t take them on unless we have the capacity to do the job properly. Instead, we ensure we gain a solid understanding of our client’s business, price competitively, involve senior members and engage specialists when necessary.

For detailed information on the range of independent attestation services our firm provides, please read our brochure Assurance and business advisory. Alternatively, click on the links below for a listing of our services.

Attestation services

Assurance

Financial risk management

Corporate finance

Transaction support

Dispute and litigation support

 

Attestation services

Beames & Associates provides a range of independent attestation services to meet your independent certification needs. These include:

  • Financial statement attestation
  • Outsourced execution of audit procedures
  • Royalty & grant audits
  • Workers Compensation premium audits
  • Trust Account audits
  • Performance audits
  • Regulatory compliance audits

Assurance

To help organisations accurately assess the risks they face, Beames & Associates offers a range of services. These include:

  • Accounting dissemination and analysis of proposed and executed transactions
  • Activity analysis
  • Capital budgeting and approval
  • Compliance audits
  • Corporatisation
  • Financial information framework
  • Key business process outsourcing
  • Loan staff
  • Organisation management
  • Policy development and communication
  • Pre-audit reviews and ‘close the books’

Financial risk management

Beames & Associates has extensive experience in assessing financial risk management for both private and public sector organisations. In particular, we have a solid understanding of Financial Governance Frameworks.We conduct reviews of the following areas for risk management:

  • Financial risk management frameworks
  • Financial stewardship reviews
  • Fraud risk management
  • Internal audit (clients have included Rio Tinto (Comalco), VicRoads (Victorian Registration & Licensing Department), Victorian Workcover Authority, Cadbury Schweppes, BHP Billiton, Newcrest Mining and Pratt Industries.)
  • Internal control assessments

Corporate finance

Our team of corporate finance experts will help you make effective and efficient business decisions and maximise your returns. They can help you in the following disciplines:

  • Assessment of businesses for proposed transactions
  • Audit, review or preparation of discounted cash flow valuation models
  • Business valuations for acquisition, merger or disposal transactions
  • Decision evaluation and analysis
  • Evaluation of project financing alternatives
  • Finance restructuring
  • Financial modelling
  • Independent expert opinions
  • Preparing assets, including businesses, for sale
  • Privatisations and corporatisations
  • Purchase price allocations
  • Sourcing, appraising and selecting potential financiers

Transaction support

Transactions can be emotional roller coaster rides for organisations. Whether you are a buyer or seller, our specialists will help you achieve the best possible result. Our transaction services include:

  • Acquisition due diligence
  • Audit of completion accounts
  • Deal structuring
  • Financial modelling and forecasting
  • Post acquisition reviews and integration support
  • Preparation of offering documents and information memorandums
  • Project management
  • Transaction accounting and taxation services
  • Vendor due diligence

Dispute & litigation support

In offering litigation support and dispute resolution services, Beames & Associates focuses its efforts on being an independent expert that ‘thinks straight and talks straight’. We specialise in:

  • Advice on specific accounting or financial issues
  • Assistance with settlement negotiations
  • Economic loss assessments
  • Financial analysis, assessment and quantification of claims
  • Forensic accounting including the review of complex accounting information frameworks, dissemination of complex transactions and the reconstruction of financial statements
  • Preparation of experts reports
  • Valuation assessments

These specialist areas stem from our core skills base of:

  • Accounting
  • Audit
  • Commercial and business acumen
  • Corporate finance
  • Taxation
  • Valuation

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