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An accounting and business advisory firm which are an international family made up of over 30,000 people across more than 100 countries, required the support of RGIS. The firm supports a broad range of individuals and entrepreneurs, large organizations and complex international businesses, delivering a highly personalized service of accounting, auditing and assurance services.

REQUIREMENT
Due to Covid-19, a discount retailer's external auditors could not attend any inventory counts to conduct sample checks, so required a solution to complete this service remotely.

The discount retailer's external auditors required RGIS to provide the following:

• Virtual checking via a video conference app
• To conduct a virtual sample check with the external auditor's representative
• Sample checks to be completed so that the customer could sign-off the discount retailer's yearly accounts

• Discussed the different options to complete the virtual sample check remotely
• Set up a Zoom call for each store that needed to have a sample check completed
• Arranged for the tablet on site to have a zoom app installed
• Each site had a unique log-in and password, to ensure there were no errors
• Scheduled a time which was one hour after the shop floor start to conduct the virtual sample check
• Supervisor dialed into Zoom, and RGIS conducted a virtual sample check with the external auditor's representative

RESULTS
The discount retailer's external auditors found by outsourcing the virtual sample check to RGIS, the following was achieved:

• The process allowed the accountants to do the sample checks so the discount retailer's yearly accounts could be signed-off 
• By completing this service virtually, it stopped any Covid-19 risk to the external auditors and the RGIS teams