Client stories
These notes reference specific audits, reviews, and procedures — inventory counts, cut-off findings, opening balances, and lender packs — not generic praise.
“Their statutory audit team spent three full days on our March inventory count at the Tokushima plant. We had to reopen two slow-moving lots they flagged; the final report still landed before our shareholder meeting.”
“The interim review caught a revenue cut-off issue we had missed in the half-year pack sent to our Singapore parent. Clear, specific, and a little uncomfortable — which is what we needed.”
“Opening balance work after we changed auditors took longer than we hoped because predecessor files arrived late. Stone Pier was candid about that delay instead of promising a date they could not meet.”
“For our bank covenant pack they ran agreed-upon procedures on inventory ageing and related-party balances. The findings report was plain enough that our relationship manager did not ask for a second explanation.”
Extended notes
A Tokushima exporter with warehouses near two ports needed a first-year statutory audit after crossing the Companies Act threshold. We planned materiality around inventory and receivables, coordinated bilingual reporting for an overseas minority shareholder, and issued the auditor’s report sixteen days after fieldwork cleared — with one management-letter item on cut-off documentation that the board addressed before the following interim.
A mid-size food company faced covenant testing tied to inventory turns and related-party purchases. We executed agreed-upon procedures on the exact populations named in the facility letter, sampled ageing buckets, and traced a sample of related-party invoices to contracts. Findings were factual only — no opinion language — which matched what the bank’s credit committee had requested.