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Risk-Based Internal Audit

Find the leaks before they sink you. Quietly.

Risk-based internal audit — controls testing, fraud-risk assessment, process effectiveness review, and a quarterly audit committee report. Reports to the board, not to management. Find what's broken before customers, regulators or auditors do.

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Quarterly
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Board
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Risksranked top-10
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Risk-based methodology
Controls testing
Fraud-risk assessment
Board reports
Action-tracking

Audit the board can act on.

One team, one fixed price, one set of clean deliverables. No vendor sprawl, no Excel chains, no last-minute scrambles.

Risk assessment

Annual risk assessment workshop with leadership. Top-10 risks ranked by impact + likelihood. Audit plan tied to risk, not to last year's audit plan.

Controls testing

Walkthroughs and tests of design + operating effectiveness across financial, operational, IT and compliance controls. Documented gaps + recommendations.

Fraud-risk reviews

Vendor fraud, expense fraud, payroll ghost-employees, revenue leakage. Specific testing programs designed per industry.

Audit committee reports

Quarterly report to the board / audit committee with risk dashboard, finding-status, management responses, and trend lines.

From risk workshop to board-level findings.

1
Risk workshop

Half-day workshop with leadership to identify and rank business risks.

2
Audit plan

12-month audit plan tied to ranked risks + statutory triggers.

3
Quarterly fieldwork

3-4 audit assignments per quarter — controls testing, walkthroughs, sampling.

4
Board reporting

Quarterly written report + board attendance.

5
Action tracking

Open findings tracked to closure with monthly status reports to management.

Internal audit that actually finds things.

Independent reporting line

We report to the board / audit committee, not to management. Findings stay objective, even when uncomfortable. This is what the role is meant to be.

Catch fraud + leakage

Internal audit pays for itself when it finds one major issue. Last year we surfaced AED 4.2M+ of fraud / leakage / overpayment across our client base.

Big-4 methodology, SME pricing

Methodology lifted from PwC, EY internal audit practices — applied at SME pricing because we don't carry their overhead.

“Paci's internal audit caught a vendor over-charging us AED 1.8M over 4 years. Their fee for the year was AED 180K. Best 100x ROI I've ever seen.”
IK
Imran Karimov
Chairman, manufacturing group, Hamriyah

Quick answers, no fluff.

How is this different from external audit?+
External audit gives an opinion on financial statements (annual). Internal audit looks at controls, fraud, processes year-round, and reports to the board — not to shareholders.
How big does my company need to be?+
We work with companies from AED 50M revenue upwards. Below that, the cost-benefit usually doesn't justify a full programme — but we can do focused fraud-risk reviews.
Confidentiality?+
Reports go directly to the board / audit committee. Management sees findings before the report is finalised, but the line of authority and confidentiality is to the board.
Annual cost?+
Typical engagements are AED 150-500K/year for SMEs, depending on number of audits, locations and risk areas. Quoted upfront, fixed fee.

Get a fixed quote in 24 hours.

Tell us your group structure (entities, locations), revenue band, and whether you have an audit committee or board today. We'll propose a 12-month audit plan + fee.

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Find the AED 1M leak. Before it becomes AED 5M.

Risk-based internal audit, board-level reporting, Big-4 methodology — at SME prices.