Part of managing your business is making informed and intelligent financial decisions. And part of making good financial decisions is knowing where you stand financially—and audits play a big role. A financial audit provides you with valuable information on your financial statements, from whether they comply with regulations to insights on your cash flow, working capital, and more.
Here are some of the key benefits auditing can provide for your business.
1. Financial Insights
Audits are crucial step to help you build a viable and stable financial plan. Financial audits offer business owners a better understanding of cash flow, budgets, and expenses to help you make informed decisions for the future of your business. Audits also improve the integrity of your current accounting system so you can stabilize your cash flow, increase your working capital, manage debt, and make better financial decisions.
2. Transparency
Regularly carrying out audits—both internal and external—helps improve your financial health while keeping your finances transparent. This especially benefits investors and shareholders since transparent and accurate financial records increase the trust people will have in your business.
3. Uncover Errors
Financial auditors can determine if your business has the necessary processes to maintain accurate financial documents. Ensuring this can help you find out if your business has loopholes in its accounting process that interfere with the growth of the business. In addition, regular audits can help uncover any instances of fraud and errors in your financial statements.
4. Analyze Profitability
Getting your financial statements inspected and evaluated by a professional auditor will allow you to get valuable insight into your financial situation. Knowing the exact workings behind the figures presented to you will help fix any issues with your current financial plan, and what you need to do to improve it.
5. Streamline Loans
If your financial statements have been audited, it makes it easier for banks and financial institutions to provide you with financial support. Audits not only instil in them an image of trustworthiness but also give financial institutions all the information they need to sanction loans. The same goes for insurance—if a corporate entity is audited, it makes it easier to settle a final claim amount.
Regular financial audits can give you a deeper understanding of your business’s financial situation and allow you to understand your resources and whether you’ve been using them right. A great accountant and bookkeeping team should be working with you to make sure you are keeping on top with all of the relevant information.
If you’d like our help with just that, reach out to the team at Dedicated Bookkeeping Solutions! We help businesses across Canada with all their accounting and bookkeeping needs, so get in touch!
