Businesses preparing for an audit
Get workpapers, reconciliations and documentation organized before requests start arriving.
Audit Support
Make audit preparation more organized and less disruptive.
When the auditor’s request list lands, your team shouldn’t have to drop everything. A dedicated GSC team gets your reconciliations, workpapers and documents ready and answers requests as they come in, so fieldwork keeps moving and your close stays on track.
Audit Prep Checklist
This Cycle
Confirm scope & requests
Organize workpapers
Update reconciliations
Support agreed testing requests
Track outstanding items
3 of 5 steps complete
✦Organized before
the request lands.
the request lands.
Audit support
not the audit.
not the audit.
Definition
What is Audit Support?
Audit support is the work of getting a company’s books, reconciliations and supporting documents ready for its auditors, then answering their requests during the audit.
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GSC provides audit support but does not perform the independent audit or sign audit opinions.
That work sits with your independent auditor. GSC’s role is on your side of the process: helping your team get the records, workpapers and supporting information ready and keeping requests moving.
In simple terms
GSC helps you get ready for the audit. Your independent auditor performs it.
Who It’s For
Audit support for teams that already have enough on their plate.
Accounting teams dealing with recurring audit requests
Add structured support for the requests that come back every audit cycle.
CPA and accounting firms that need additional delivery capacity
Add capacity for accounting and documentation work, while the firm keeps its own professional responsibilities, review and sign-off.
Teams where audit season derails normal work
Keep the month-end close and day-to-day accounting on track while the audit runs.
What GSC Handles
What we get ready for your auditors.
Everything on your auditor’s request list, ready before they ask.
What you getIncluded in Audit Support4 services · one dedicated team
- Workpapers
- Help prepare and organize supporting workpapers required for the audit process.
- Reconciliations
- Support account reconciliations and help address outstanding accounting items.
- Testing Support
- We pull the invoices, contracts and support for your auditor’s samples and track every request until it’s closed.
- Documentation
- Organize financial documentation and supporting information.
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Scope is agreed with you up front. Start with one service and add more whenever you need them.
How We Work
Prepared before the request becomes a fire drill.
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Prepare
Understand the audit scope, requests and available information.
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Organize
Bring workpapers, reconciliations and documentation into an organized workflow.
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Support
During fieldwork we answer requests and pull samples, so your team stays on its day jobs.
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Close the Loop
We track every open item until it’s closed and note what to fix so next year’s audit is easier.
Why GSC
Why choose GSC for audit support?
Less scrambling, fewer late nights and an audit that doesn’t drag on.
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A dedicated team
You work with the same people who learn your records, your auditor’s recurring requests and how your team works. You always know who is working on what.
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AI-assisted, person-reviewed
GSC uses automation to help organize documentation and support reconciliation work, so requested items are easier to locate and track. A person reviews every output before it reaches you.
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Works inside your existing systems
The team works in the accounting systems and workflows you already have. There’s no need to migrate systems to prepare for an audit with GSC.
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Scalable capacity during audit season
Support can be scaled around busier audit periods, so preparation work doesn’t pull your team away from day-to-day accounting.
Systems
Accounting systems we work with
GSC works inside the accounting systems you already use to prepare audit documentation.
Accounting & ERP
QuickBooksXeroSageNetSuite
Running something else? Tell us on a call. The team works in the tools you already use. How GSC uses technology →
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Engagement Models
Two ways to work with GSC.
Audit support can be delivered in two ways. The right one depends on who you want directing the day-to-day work.
Model 01
Outsourcing
GSC takes on defined audit preparation (workpapers, reconciliations, documentation and request tracking) against a scope agreed with you.
Fits whenyou want to hand off defined audit-preparation work, such as workpapers, reconciliations and documentation.
Explore Outsourcing →
Model 02
Offshore Staffing
GSC provides dedicated professionals who support your accounting and audit-preparation workflow and take day-to-day direction from you.
Fits whenyou want added capacity that your own team directs during audit preparation.
Explore Offshore Staffing →
When to Consider It
Signs your audit prep needs help
- 01Your audit fee keeps climbing because the auditors are waiting on you.
- 02Audit requests are consuming significant staff time.
- 03Supporting documents are scattered across inboxes, drives and systems.
- 04Reconciliations are behind.
- 05Workpapers need additional preparation.
- 06Internal accounting staff are overloaded.
- 07Audit preparation repeatedly disrupts normal accounting work.
Recognize a few of these?
An Important Distinction
Audit support is not the audit.
Two separate roles. GSC supports your team’s preparation. The independent audit and any audit opinion stay with your independent auditor.
GSC
Audit Support
Organizes, prepares and supports the accounting and documentation work required by the client.
Does notperform the independent audit or sign audit opinions.
Independent Auditor
Audit & Assurance
Performs the independent audit and issues the audit opinion where applicable.
Not GSC. This role stays with your independent auditor.
In short
GSC helps prepare what the audit asks for. It does not audit and it does not sign opinions.
Industries
Industries we support
Different businesses prepare for audits differently. The team adapts to your chart of accounts, your records and your audit cycle.
- Professional ServicesProject-heavy books and partner accounts that need clear supporting detail.↗
- Technology & SaaSRevenue and subscription records that need organized supporting documentation.↗
- Real EstateMulti-entity and property-level records to reconcile and document.↗
- Financial ServicesControlled environments and documentation-first workflows.↗
- HealthcareHigh-volume transactions and compliance-aware processes.↗
- NonprofitFund accounting, grant tracking and the documentation behind them.↗
- Other Growing BusinessesIf audit preparation keeps pulling your team off day-to-day work, we should talk.↗
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers to what people ask us before they hand over the work.
01What is audit support?+
Audit support is the work of getting a company’s books, reconciliations and supporting documents ready for its auditors, then answering their requests during the audit. GSC provides audit support but does not perform the independent audit or sign audit opinions.
02What does audit support include?+
Audit support from GSC covers four areas: preparing and organizing supporting workpapers, supporting account reconciliations, providing agreed support for audit testing and information requests and organizing financial documentation. The exact scope is agreed for each engagement.
03Can GSC help prepare workpapers?+
Yes. GSC can help prepare and organize the supporting workpapers required for the audit process, so they are in order when requests come in. Evaluating that support as part of the audit remains with your independent auditor.
04Can GSC support account reconciliations?+
Yes. GSC can support account reconciliations and help address outstanding accounting items, so balances and supporting detail are in better shape before and during the audit process.
05Can GSC provide testing support?+
Yes, within an agreed scope. GSC can provide agreed support for audit testing and related information requests, such as pulling together the information requested. The audit testing itself and any conclusions drawn from it are the independent auditor’s work.
06Can GSC organize audit documentation?+
Yes. GSC can organize financial documentation and supporting information so requested items are easier to locate, track and provide.
07Does GSC perform the audit?+
No. GSC does not perform the independent audit. GSC provides audit support: preparing and organizing the accounting and documentation work the audit requires. The audit itself is performed by your independent auditor.
08Does GSC sign audit opinions?+
No. GSC does not sign or issue audit opinions. Where an audit opinion applies, it is issued by the independent auditor.
09Who uses outsourced audit support?+
Businesses preparing for an audit, accounting teams handling recurring audit requests, CPA and accounting firms that need additional delivery capacity and organizations where audit preparation is disrupting normal accounting work.
10Can audit support be scaled during busy periods?+
Yes. Audit support is scoped per engagement, so it can be structured around busier audit periods: either as an Outsourcing engagement or through dedicated professionals under Offshore Staffing. Capacity and timing are agreed with GSC up front.
Next Step
Preparing for an audit?
Tell us when fieldwork starts and what’s on the request list. We’ll come back with what we can have ready and by when.