Evidence that holds up.
Body-of-evidence curation, audit artifact chains, internal-controls remediation, and policy authoring: audit readiness for federal financial and cyber mandates.
Audit Readiness & Internal Controls
Audit readiness is an evidence problem before it is an accounting problem. Pueo builds and curates the body of evidence behind an assertion, so the artifact chain supporting a transaction, a control, or a system holds together when an auditor pulls the thread.
The work follows Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) evidence discipline: key supporting documents identified, sampled, and traced from the reported figure back to the source record; control design and operating effectiveness tested; findings closed with root-cause corrective action rather than a one-time fix; and policy, process, and control narratives authored so the process is repeatable after the team rotates.
Financial and cyber mandates are treated as one body of evidence. Information-technology general controls, access reviews, and configuration evidence support the financial audit and the security-compliance side alike, so an artifact is collected once and reused everywhere it applies.
What’s Inside
Body-of-evidence curation
Identification, collection, and quality review of key supporting documents, with artifact chains that trace a reported figure back to the source record.
Internal-controls testing and remediation
Control design and operating-effectiveness testing, root-cause analysis on findings, and corrective action plans tracked to closure with retest evidence on file.
Policy and process authoring
Standard operating procedures, control narratives, process flows, and segregation-of-duties documentation, written so the control survives staff turnover.
Audit support and response
Auditor request management, walkthrough support, and response packages assembled to the request as written, with one tracker carrying status and due dates.
Financial and cyber convergence
Information-technology general controls, access reviews, and configuration evidence mapped once and reused across financial and cyber audit mandates.
Outcomes
- An audit-ready body of evidence that traces to source records.
- Findings closed at the root cause, with retest evidence on file.
- Controls documented well enough to survive staff turnover.
- Auditor requests answered from a managed artifact chain, not a scramble.
- One evidence set serving both financial and cyber mandates.
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