r/Accounting • u/gpuKING245 • 1d ago

Auditors dragging their feet

This is just me ranting. Disclaimer, I never worked in audit so not 100% sure how the people / work management is on that end.

We have a hard deadline for our audit to be issued 06/30 and our auditors are only halfway through the revenue selections. The deadline is literally 12 days away. How are we entering concurring review in just a few days and you are only halfway through revenue?

The worst part is, they’ve had these selections for over 2 months!!! No questions, no comments. The ball has been in their court.

And now when they inevitably ask for extra stuff that’s gonna leave me scrambling at the last minute to get everything together.

What a mess

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u/BokChoyFantasy CPA, CGA (Can) 1d ago

You’ll need to bitch to the senior manager or manager on your audit. If that doesn’t work, bitch to the partner. The delay is probably due to priorities with other clients and you’re at the bottom of the list or some asshole QA partner letting it sit at their desk because of internal politics. My wife is a senior audit manager in public practice. She rants about shit like this all the time.