Charities Services:

Alexander Sloan Chartered Accountants can deliver an enhanced approach to internal audit, making best use of our skills and experience.

The benefits for our clients are clear: they are assured a comprehensive service that combines specific financial and audit expertise, non-financial internal audit and a breadth of knowledge of the charities sector.

WHY NOW?

Trustees of a charity must ensure that the way in which the charity is administered is not open to abuse and that their systems of control are rigorous and constantly maintained. Grant funders will require certain standards of control to be operating within the charity. It is therefore good practice for trustees to develop a system of self-assessment which will ensure the proper operation of controls within the charity and provide benefits of monitoring effectiveness of control procedures rather than rely on detection of errors or non-compliance after the event.

WHAT CAN WE OFFER?

The skills and experience include:

• We carry out external audit for over 100 charities
• We provide internal audit services for over 25 clients
• We are a firm of Chartered Accountants authorised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland to carry on audit work
• We have an experienced team, including internal audit partner Andy McBean, specialist manager Phil Morrice and undergo ongoing training on best practice
• We have expertise in assessing internal controls in many different businesses including Charities, Housing Associations, a Building Society, Credit Union, Retail Shops and industry
• We provide policy and procedural development services and trustee & staff training
  

FURTHER INFORMATION

If you would like some further information on this service please contact Andy McBean
(amcb@alexandersloan.co.uk ) who will be pleased to discuss a tailored programme of internal audit.