The growing adoption of outsourcing (especially by US and UK companies) means that many organisations rely on third parties for the provision of critical financal processes. Auditors are responding by placing increased emphasis on the potential risks from externally managed processes.

Quartus consultants can help companies by evaluating whether they should rely on a SAS 70 Certification and assessing what the alternatives might be. They check for factors such as the excessive use of contract staff or sub-contracted suppliers that can threaten the SOX validity of a SAS 70 level II opinion.

Quartus consultants have project management experience of outsourcing and change management so they can also advise on how to prepare a compliance framework in advance of the transfer of key processes to an external supplier.