Internal Audit
Unit
GrowthStone has a fully developed internal audit unit. We assist clients on fully outsourced or co-sourcing arrangements. Our team is well experienced with extensive industry knowledge.
Moreover, the team is also able to assist clients on a wide range of corporate governance issues. Our exposure and experience in areas such as SOX and King Code of Corporate Governance provide us with the tools to assist clients in a variety of areas.
We can assist by:
- Providing co-sourcing/outsourcing services
- Improving the quality, productivity and value of in-house services
- Enhancing internal audit methodologies to improve audit planning, execution and reporting
- Advising on and supporting audit technology selection and implementation
- Combined assurance
- Internal financial controls (SOX and the assessment, implementation and testing of internal financial control frameworks)
- Staff augmentation in respect of in-house functions
- Auditing of performance information / Auditing of predetermined objectives
- Performance audits / Value-for-money audits
IT Audit
and Consulting
We have the best-in-class IT skills, wider business perspective, experience and delivery solutions that fully consider the impact on all aspects of your operation.
We can work with you to not only make your business more resilient but also engender trust. With trust in your data and security, with resilience built into your systems, and with the knowledge that your digital transformations will succeed, you will have the confidence to embrace your digital future and enjoy the exponential impact it has on your growth.
Our service offering includes:
- General Controls Review
- Applications Control
- Cyber Security Assessment
- General IT Consulting
Forensic
Services
Our forensic service offering includes a wide range of areas of expertise:
- Financial Crime Investigations
- Forensic Investigations
- Money Laundering Investigations
- Specialist Forensic Accounting
- Litigation Support
- Fraud and Corruption Investigation
- Fraudulent Financial Reporting Investigations
- Prevention Services
- Statutory Inspections
- Curatorship Services
- Tax Fraud Investigations
Taxation and Transaction
Structuring
Our corporate tax division specialises in gaining an in-depth understanding of your business and the core tax issues that impact it. We offer tax advice, ideas and services with the benefit of specialist knowledge across a broad range of industries and markets.
- Tax computations and tax returns
- Tax implications of specific transactions
- Corporate restructuring
- STC
- CGT
- Indirect tax & Provisional tax
- Income tax & Employees tax
Actuarial
Services
Our outsourced actuarial services assist private and public entities to determine, assess and plan for the financial impact of risk on their businesses. We combine broad local knowledge and experience with unparalleled support and expertise to offer clients a world class solution to any challenge faced. This enables us to provide a multi-disciplinary solution to our clients.
Finance Function Support
Audit Readiness and Processing
Key to a high performing finance function is its ability to balance the three competing objectives of control, efficiency and insight. The requisite of CEOs and FDs alike is for the finance function to be smarter and faster — however, each organisation is unique and so there is no 'one size fits all'.
There are, however, leading practices that successful finance organisations continue to drive as they are forced to do more with less in an increasingly complicated regulatory and competitive environment. We have the ability to assist your finance team with a full range of finance support offering from data capturing to process optimisation.
B-BBEE
Services
GrowthStone, on an outsourced basis, renders support to clients in their B-BBEE strategy. The support provided helps management with finding the optimum structure to ensure achievement of the best possible B-BBEE rating. The team is also able to assist in crafting strategies for operational changes that would ensure an improvement in the company rating and corporate responsibility.