We offer professional audit and assurance services focused on transparency, accountability, and impact evaluation. Our expertise includes Statutory Audit, Internal Audit, ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) Audit, Social Audit, Utilization Certificate verification, compliance reviews, and impact assessment reporting.
These services help organizations strengthen governance systems and build trust among donors, stakeholders, and regulatory authorities. Our audit approach is designed not only to ensure legal and financial compliance but also to evaluate operational effectiveness, ethical governance, and social impact.
We assist organizations in identifying compliance gaps, improving financial systems, and implementing best governance practices that enhance long-term sustainability and donor confidence.
Audit and assurance
The audits we carry out
From the statutory audit through to independent impact assessment — what each one covers.
Statutory Audit
The statutory audit is the document everyone else works from — the income tax department, FCRA authorities, grant-making bodies and corporate donors all start with your audited financials.
What we handle
Audit of trusts, societies and Section 8 companies under the applicable law
Preparation and filing of the tax audit report — Form 10B / 10BB
Fund-wise and project-wise reporting, so restricted grants can be traced
Reconciliation between the books, Form 10BD and the income tax return
Reporting under the Companies Act for Section 8 companies
How we work
We plan the audit around the deadlines that actually bite — the audit report has to be filed before the return, and a late report is one of the most common reasons an exemption gets questioned. Issues are raised during the year rather than saved for the audit memo.
Internal audit is where problems are found while they are still cheap to fix. For an NGO the risk is rarely fraud on a large scale — it is far more often weak documentation that cannot support a claim two years later.
What we handle
Review of controls over receipts, grants, payments and cash
Procurement and vendor processes, including competitive selection records
Payroll, consultant payments and statutory deductions
Branch, chapter and field-office verification
Grant-condition compliance — testing whether restricted funds were used as agreed
Risk register and a prioritised action plan, not just a list of observations
How we work
We report by severity and give each finding an owner and a date. An internal audit report that lists forty equal-weight observations gets filed away; one that names the three things that could actually cost the organisation its funding gets acted on.
Corporate donors are increasingly asked to evidence the ESG credentials of the partners they fund. An ESG review turns that from a questionnaire exercise into something you can actually demonstrate.
What we handle
Environmental — resource use, waste, and the environmental claims made in programme reporting
Social — workforce practices, safeguarding, grievance mechanisms, beneficiary protection
Gap assessment against the disclosure framework your funder uses
Readiness review before a corporate due-diligence exercise
How we work
We are direct about the difference between what an organisation does and what it can evidence. Most ESG gaps we find are documentation gaps — the practice exists but there is no record a reviewer can rely on.
Companies above the prescribed CSR thresholds are required to have impact assessment carried out for qualifying projects. Beyond compliance, it is the evidence a funder uses when deciding whether to fund you again.
What we handle
Independent impact assessment of CSR and donor-funded projects
Baseline and endline studies where the project is still being designed
Outcome indicators — moving reporting from “how many were trained” to “what changed”
Beneficiary-level data collection and verification
Impact reports in the format the funder’s board and annual report require
How we work
Indicators are agreed before fieldwork, not chosen afterwards to fit the data. Where a project did not achieve what was intended, the report says so and explains why — funders discount assessments that only ever report success.
