Audit and Compliance

At IFG Project Resourcing, our mission is to provide highly targeted and flexible internal audit solutions through our highly experience Project Professionals.

As your internal audit resource, IFG Project Resourcing combines a commitment to quality along with the deep public accounting firm heritage of our Project Professionals with the entrepreneurial energy of an innovative, high-growth professionals services firm. Our Project Professionals have the industry experience, professional internal audit expertise, and specific technical skills needed to help you on your projects. And, since IFG Project Resourcing is not a public accounting firm, we are uniquely positioned to deliver internal audit solutions to our clients without raising any conflict of interest issues.

Sarbanes-Oxley, Bill 198 Support including:

• providing project management support
• performing quality assurance reviews on documentation
• documenting existing business processes, practices, workflows and identifying internal controls
• testing internal controls
• writing test scripts, testing internal controls, and documenting test results
• remediation  of deficiencies, including changes to policies and procedures
• planning and implementation of an ongoing Sarbanes/Bill 198 compliance process for subsequent years
• Sarbanes-Oxley/Bill 198 Software Selection

Operational Audits

IT Audits

Risk Assessments

Substantive Audits

Quality Assurance Reviews

Internal Audit Process Improvement

SAS 70 Assistance

• Business Continuity Planning
• Succession Planning
• Fraud Investigation and Prevention
• Credit Risk Management
• Treasury Risk Management
• Regulatory Risk Management 
• Application Controls
• IT Assessment
• Change Management
• Audit Preparation
• Healthcare Auditors - Medicare/ Medicaid
• Internal Controls Review
• Year End Audit Preparation
• Internal Audit Support

Finance & Accounting
IFG Project Resourcing has built on the deep public accounting heritage of its Project Professionals to provide clients with a wealth of finance and accounting experience. Our Project Professionals provide companies access to specific expertise and specialised skill sets to conquer mission critical initiatives. This enables our clients to leverage their own personnel, providing them with more agility in responding to change initiatives and managing internal projects with tight timelines.

The three common situations in which clients turn to IFG Project Resourcing include requesting our Project Professionals to:

• Assist with special critical projects where they need subject matter expertise
• Manage peak workload periods where they need bench strength to supplement internal resources
• Provide stop gap relief during restructuring, to backfill internal resources allocated onto another initiative, or to fill interim vacancies to bridge the gap until a permanent solution is arranged

Our Project Professionals can assist with a wide variety of both regularly occurring, and non-recurring, finance and accounting activities such as:

• Financial and regulatory reporting (SEC, OSC, IFRS)
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Financial analysis
• Profitability analysis
• Benchmarking and Best Practices
• Regulatory issues and reporting compliance such as - Sarbanes-Oxley, Bill 198, BASEL II, OSFI, IDA, MFDA, IFRS, and ISO
• Process re-engineering
• Mergers and Acquisitions ? due diligence and post acquisition integration
• Shared services set-up or outsourcing
• Bankruptcy filings and Turnaround
• IPO preparation  and support
• Start-up assistance
• Reconciliation backlog catch-up or suspense item cleanup
• Special projects
• Relocation of finance functions
• Project Management
• Internal Audit Prep
• Treasury
• Treasury Management
• Cash Management
• Credit Facility Analysis
• Credit Policies & Procedures
• Business Valuations
• Inventory Planning And Reporting
• Strategic Planning
• Logistics And Distribution
• Supply Chain Management
• Revenue Recognition

Information Technology

• Software Assessment and Selection
• Finance & Accounting Systems implementations, upgrades and converstions
• Accounting System Training
• Accounting System Policies & Procedures Manuals
• Database Design
• Custom Report Writing
• Post-implementation System Clean-up
• Staff Augmentation For Finance And Accounting Personnel Temporarily Deployed To IT Projects
• Data Testing
• Transaction And Data Integrity
• Process Analysis
• Report Writing Projects
• IT Audit

Tax

• Tax Risk Management
• Transfer pricing
• Corporate Tax Administration
• Federal Tax Advisory Services
• State & Local Tax Advisory Services
• International Tax Advisory Services
• Real Estate Tax Analysis
• Foreign Withholding Tax
• Expatriate

Interim and Project-to-Hire

• Maternity Leaves
• Internal/External Auditors
• Manager?s/Director?s of Compliance (Bill 198/Sarbanes-Oxley)
• CFOs
• VPs of Finance
• Controllers
• Directors of Finance
• Financial Managers
• Financial Analysts
• Accounting Managers
• Senior Accountants/Analysts
• Staff Accountants
• Accounting Managers
• Cost Accountants
• Sr. Financial Analysis
• Sec Reporting Specialists