Auditing and audit-related consulting

The obligation to report on sustainability through the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the EU taxonomy brings with it extensive challenges for companies. Our experts will support you in developing your individual ESG strategy – from initial planning to implementation and final review. Our ESG consulting focuses in the audit-related area:

• ESG “health check” as a compliance check of your internal control system (ICS)
• Design of ESG-compliant sustainability reporting
• Advice on report preparation including TÜV-certified CO₂ reporting
• Implementation of ESG reporting, digitized and automated
• Review of voluntary sustainability reports
• ESG outsourcing

Thanks to our cross-departmental expertise, we advise you holistically and with additional ESG services

Due to the increasing digitalization of business processes, IT auditing has become more important and is now an essential part of the annual financial statement audit. Our specialists keep an eye on your IT security and general IT controls (ITGC), uncover weak points and develop concrete suggestions for improvement. This is how we support you:

• Analysis of your business processes and IT-supported controls
• Conducting risk analyses and security assessments
• Mass data analysis, data preparation and journal entry testing

Comprehensive risk management and effective internal control systems (ICS) are absolutely critical success factors for companies and organizations of all sizes and industries. Based on our many years of experience with risk management systems and ICS in the context of annual financial statement audits, we offer our clients targeted advice on implementation and optimization:

• Compliance health check with status report, GAP analysis and prioritization of GAPs as well as practical instructions
• Setting up a compliance management system
• Special audits to ensure the proper conduct of business
• Taking over internal auditing activities
• Setting up an internal audit

In addition to the legally required audits by auditors, ACCONSIS also carries out special audits for which an official certificate or confirmation by an expert third party is contractually or legally required. These include:

• Special audits in accordance with the Stock Corporation Act, GmbH Act and Transformation Act (contract audits, audits of contributions in kind, squeeze-out audits, etc.)
• Due diligence
• Confirmation services in the context of company sales
• Energy law audits (such as EEG/KWKG)
• Audit in accordance with the Budget Principles Act (Section 53 HGrG), Real Estate Agents and property Developers Ordinance (MaBV), Packaging Ordinances
• Audit and certification in connection with EU funding
• Special audits on fraud and embezzlement – full scope or in accordance with the individual order or process support

With a cross-departmental consulting team, we support alternative investment funds (AIF) with individual consulting services. These include in particular:

• Accounting
• Final audit
• Ongoing tax advice and written reports

With a cross-departmental consulting team, we support foundations and non-profit organizations (NPOs) in maintaining their financial integrity and effectively pursuing their mission-specific goals. Our audit-related consulting services include:

• Auditing divisional and separate accounts as well as annual accounts or financial statements
• Auditing the correctness of bookkeeping
• Conformity of accounting with the relevant statutory provisions
• Transfer of specialist knowledge to strengthen internal capacities
• Advice on tax-related peculiarities within the framework of non-profit law

Whether it is a company takeover, succession planning or legal disputes: a well-founded company valuation is essential in crucial company issues. Based on business analyses and many years of experience, ACCONSIS supports you in strategic company decisions. As publicly appointed and sworn experts, our experts develop important decision-making aids.

• Company and share valuation for tax, accounting and corporate and family law purposes: preparation and documentation, preparation of reports (IDW S1)
• Review of submitted company valuations, determination of a value corridor using alternative methods
• Valuation of corporate investments in accordance with the requirements of the KAGB
  Valuation of intangible assets
• Fairness opinion in the context of the company purchase
• Review and implementation of impairment tests in accordance with IDW RS HFA 10 and goodwill impairment tests in accordance with IAS 36
• Special valuations in the start-up sector and seed valuations
• Purchase price allocation after acquisition of a company or assets in accordance with HGB and IFRS