Assurance
Confidence,
made legible.
An opinion is only worth what the reader trusts.
Audits, reviews, and readiness work that lenders, boards, and buyers actually rely on. Clarity, accuracy, and risk mitigation built into the fieldwork rather than bolted on at the report stage.
Practice Leader
Paul Hays, CPA
Credentials
CPA · former-EY
Best Fit
Companies facing outside scrutiny
Engagement
Annual engagement
What’s Included
Six Services, One Team
01
Financial statement audits
Full-scope audits for lenders, investors, boards, and regulators, delivered on a schedule you can commit to.
02
Reviews and compilations
Right-sized assurance when a full audit is more than the situation calls for.
03
Audit readiness
The work before the work: getting records, schedules, and controls to a state that survives fieldwork.
04
Internal controls
Where the process can fail, documented plainly, with the fixes ranked by exposure.
05
Risk mitigation
The exposures a clean opinion does not cover, named while there is still time to act.
06
Stakeholder reporting
Reporting built for the person who has to make a decision from it.
How we work
A Schedule You Can Commit To
Planning
Scoping
Materiality, risk areas, and the request list agreed before fieldwork is booked.
Pre-Fieldwork
Readiness
Gaps in schedules and support closed early, when they are still cheap to close.
Fieldwork
Testing
On-site and remote testing against the plan, with issues raised as they surface.
Reporting
Delivery
The opinion, the management letter, and a conversation about what to change.
Who You’ll Work With
“Nobody wants an audit. What they want is to stop worrying about the numbers.”
Paul Hays, CPA
CPA · former-EY
Paul leads Assurance at 1Source, leading audits and readiness work for companies whose numbers are about to be read by someone with leverage.
Signals
Zero
Surprises at Report
Issues are raised and resolved early, not at the last minute.
former-EY
Big 4 Method
The methodology of a global firm without the layers between you and the partner.
1 firm
Independent
No private equity owner setting the utilization target behind the opinion.
Works Alongside
The Rest of the Platform
Next Step
Bring us the audit that has to go smoothly.
Tell us who is reading the statements and what they need to believe. We will scope the engagement against that, not against a standard template.
