KPMG's Audit Services help organizations and individuals achieve their objectives and succeed in the new economy through measuring performance, and leveraging knowledge.

KPMG's Audit Methodology transforms the traditional, compliance-driven audit process by creating a framework to assess how a company's business risks are managed. You can benefit from this approach because it allows us to gain a thorough understanding of your business, including its strategies, business risks, and the processes that manage them-resulting in an effective and efficient audit for you. It focuses on critical success factors and key performance indicators that drive your organization, and positions us to add value through the audit.

KPMG's three-phase audit methodology incorporates the following:

Using our industry experience and knowledge of leading practices, our multidisciplinary engagement team gains a thorough understanding of your business. Working with you, we evaluate strategic business risks and regulatory challenges in order to assess their significance to your business and their potential effect on your financial statements. We then analyze both the key processes you have in place to manage these risks and the procedures used to record significant classes of transactions.

We document and make sure we understand your key business processes by evaluating the underlying risks involved. We then test the design and operating effectiveness of your risk-management controls as a basis for our Section 404 attestation. We decide on audit objectives associated with these risks and assess the possibility of misstatement in your financial statements for each audit objective. We test controls throughout the period under audit to help eliminate last-minute surprises and help reduce the amount of period-end auditing required.

In this phase we perform detailed, substantive audit procedures as planned; identify and investigate audit differences; evaluate findings; form our audit opinions; and report our findings.

For further information contact:
Tola Adeyemi
e-Mail address:tola.adeyemi@ng.kpmg.com