Preparing the engagement pack before we arrive
Fieldwork moves at the speed of your documentation. A short pack, prepared once, saves both sides a week of unanswered requests.
We send a request list with the scoping letter. The items that most often delay a Kuala Lumpur engagement are not exotic. They are the organisation chart for report owners, a list of production report runs in the period, access to a read-only copy of the reporting environment or to exported run artefacts, and a named contact who can obtain extracts from the source ledger.
You do not need to write a new manual for us. Existing close checklists, prior internal-audit papers, and the last reconciliation file are enough to start. If a document does not exist — for example there is no freeze record — say so. Inventing one after the request arrives wastes time and usually becomes a finding anyway.
Access is arranged through your IT owner. We do not install tools on your network and we do not need a privileged login. Read-only access for the period under review, or a structured export, is the normal pattern.
If several entities share one platform, tell us at scoping. Sampling across entities is a different design from sampling within one company, and the fee letter should reflect that before we book the first week on site.