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Audit and Assurance

Independent audit services tailored to your organisation’s needs for real certainty.

What to expect when choosing Ashfords

Independent reviews and clear insights for each decision with real understanding.

More than compliance, Audit and Assurance is about confidence. Independent review gives stakeholders the clarity they need, while also revealing insights that strengthen governance, improve systems, and support long-term growth.

Every engagement begins with understanding your organisation’s purpose and priorities. From there, the focus is on testing processes, assessing risks, and confirming compliance in a way that’s both thorough and constructive. The outcome is more than a report — it’s knowledge you can act on.

Assurance is not a box-ticking exercise, but an ongoing safeguard. As regulations evolve and your organisation changes, regular independent audits ensure transparency, protect credibility, and create trust with the people who rely on you most.

'Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.'

— Wyatt Earp

Services

Better assurance comes from clear, focused insight.

Explore standalone and collaborative services designed to sharpen governance, reinforce accountability and keep your organisation ahead of change.

Risk Advisory

Identify key exposures, assess control effectiveness, and strengthen resilience across core processes and projects.

Audit Services

Obtain independent assurance over financial statements, test key balances and processes, and enhance credibility with stakeholders and regulators.

Due Diligence

Identify key exposures, assess control effectiveness, and strengthen resilience across core processes and projects.

Special Purpose Engagements

Target specific reporting, compliance or funding requirements through focused assurance engagements aligned to defined objectives.

SMSF Compliance

Conduct independent SMSF audits, confirm adherence to superannuation rules, and highlight issues before they escalate.

Tailored Approach

While many clients come to us for a single solution, a comprehensive plan forward is the result. Considering your options? Enquire for a tailored approach.

Your future advisors

One lead advisor, strengthened by firm-wide guidance.

Strategic continuity is provided through a consistent advisor, with broader input. Choosing Ashfords for Audit and Assurance means insight and support across finance, tax, SMSF, operations and strategy as complexity increases.

Why Ashfords

Proven expertise over four decades.

Real-world experience

40+ years of experience that leads to steadier decisions and fewer surprises.

Consistent people

The same team stays involved as things change. No constant resets.

Clients who stay

Relationships last from our commitment and adaptive, human-first advice.

Plain and clear

Guidance is useable right now and integrated in the future.

"We’re seeing the same people who then get to know your business—it’s much less hassle from our point of view to have them in the office and we can basically set and forget with them."

Martin Massey

Business Manager, Cornish College

Enquire with Ashfords

The Audit and Assurance team helps set foundations for a wider range of opportunities. Enquire with Ashfords below, for a risk-free, human conversation about working with us.

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