Compliance Readiness Review
A focused pre-audit review of ledgers, cut-off, related-party disclosures, and expense documentation — without issuing an audit opinion.
光子区 · 山口県
Kaede Compliance Office
Independent financial audits for companies that keep real ledgers, count real stock, and answer to lenders and shareholders — not a product pitch, a year-end engagement.
Statutory fieldwork planned around your inventory count and bank confirmation cycle.
Flagship engagement
Statutory financial audit
Kaede examines annual financial statements for mid-sized trading, manufacturing, and holding companies. Planning, confirmations, inventory observation, and a signed auditor’s report — delivered from our office at 79551 Park Drive, 光子区.
Also available
Related audit work
Supporting engagements that sit beside a full opinion when your lender or board needs something narrower.
Inventory Observation
On-site attendance at physical stock counts for warehouses and cold stores, with count instructions for supervisors and an observation memo for your board pack.
Agreed-Upon Procedures
Narrow, contract-defined tests — such as royalty calculations, grant expenditure, or specific receivable ageing — reported as factual findings without an opinion.
From the field
What clients notice
“The fieldwork took longer than we hoped because our subsidiary records were incomplete, and they said so early rather than papering over it. Once we produced the missing bank reconciliations, the final opinion arrived on the date they revised with us.”
Elena Vos, Controller, Hikari Marine Logistics
We publish longer client stories on our reviews page — including where fieldwork took longer than hoped because records were incomplete. Clear constraints matter as much as praise.
How we work
From scoping call to report date
Every statutory engagement follows the same spine: engagement letter, risk planning, fieldwork, findings, and signed report. See the full sequence on our audit process page.
Fees
Quoted after we know your sites
Fixed fees for most statutory audits; daily rates for inventory observation. We do not publish a single price that pretends every ledger is the same.
Field notes
Recent writing on audit preparation
Preparing the trial balance your auditor can actually use
How finance teams in manufacturing and trading companies can tidy the trial balance before statutory fieldwork begins.
What happens during an inventory observation day
A plain walkthrough of how Kaede attends a warehouse count — from tag control to the observation memo.
Cut-off errors that surface late in Yamaguchi trading companies
Revenue and purchase cut-off mistakes we see most often around 31 March and 31 December year-ends.
Common questions
Before you enquire
How long does a statutory financial audit usually take?
For a mid-sized Yamaguchi trading or manufacturing company with clean prior-year files, fieldwork typically runs two to four weeks on site, followed by one to two weeks of report drafting. First-year engagements and multi-entity groups take longer.
Do you audit companies outside Yamaguchi Prefecture?
Yes. Our office is in 光子区, and we regularly travel for inventory observations and management interviews across western Honshu. Remote document review is available for interim testing when ledgers and bank confirmations can be shared securely.
What do we need to prepare before your first visit?
A trial balance, general ledger export, bank statements for the year, fixed-asset register, inventory listings, and prior auditor working papers if you are changing firms. We send a detailed request list after the engagement letter is signed.
Are your fees fixed or hourly?
Most statutory audits are quoted as a fixed engagement fee based on entity size, number of locations, and complexity of revenue recognition. Narrow reviews and single-site inventory observations may be billed at a daily rate.
Can you help if we are not ready for a full audit opinion?
Our compliance readiness review is designed for that situation. We test selected cycles, document gaps, and leave you with a remediation list — without issuing an audit opinion.