Financial accounting advisory services (FAAS)

Supporting your finance team with financial reporting expertise and providing scalable resource to navigate change

Expand your finance team with on-demand resource and access to financial reporting experts. Our FAAS team are there when you need them.

The demands placed on your finance team are increasing. Stakeholders expect more insight, on time-management information, transparency of disclosure and exemplary financial reporting. At the same time, technology is changing the skills your team need, and you may be finding it difficult to find high-quality finance talent and financial reporting expertise.

Our financial accounting advisory services (FAAS) team can help you deliver on business-critical projects.

Key features

Flexible, scalable resource

Expert support for your finance team when you need it

Financial reporting expertise

We combine deep technical capability and broad sector experience

Independent reporting

We can provide you with a level of assurance over financial and non-financial data

Why Grant Thornton

Our FAAS team collaborates with large corporates, medium-sized businesses and not-for-profit organisations, working with your finance team to deliver the outcomes needed for your business.

Whether you're growing rapidly or undertaking a specific business event, such as entering new contracts, acquiring, integrating, restructuring, planning for an IPO, your management accounts or annual report need more attention, or you're having an unexpected technical issue raised by statutory auditors, we can help.

Additional information

Our FAAS services

Our FAAS service is split into 3 elements:

Accounting Advisory

We offer a managed FAAS service where our professionals embed themselves in your business, become trusted team members, and provide you with additional skills and expertise.

We collaborate with you to understand your challenges and work together with your finance team to develop a clear project plan and effective solution. We mobilise fast to bring an individual or team to support you.

We focus on your broader business objectives, not just individual tasks. We'll provide a fresh pair of eyes, suggesting improvements and bringing new skills and insight to your finance function.

Supplementing and upskilling your finance team during significant change, such as acquisition, disposal, high growth or preparing for an initial public offering
Reconstructing management accounts and resolving compliance issues
Prepare for year-end audit and supporting you deal with your external auditor
Prepare statutory financial statements and consolidated group accounts
Executing actions relating to accounting or control issues

Financial reporting advisory

We have a broad understanding of both best practice and how financial reporting can go wrong. These practical insights, combined with a broad and deep technical knowledge of IFRS, UK GAAP and US GAAP, and capital markets insight, means that we can provide you access to experts to help you balance demands and challenges within your team.

Impact assessments and implementation of new accounting standards ]
GAAP conversion work, principally IFRS, UK GAAP and US GAAP
Preparation of Historical Financial Information (HFI) in respect of IPOs
Accounting in respect of restructuring, group simplifications and acquisitions
Distributable reserves reviews
Preparation of accounting policy manuals and policy reviews
Technical accounting papers, for example, revenue recognition, share-based payments, business combinations and financing arrangements

Non-statutory audit assurance

Are you required to meet the needs of a third party over your data submission? We can provide a report of factual findings or level of assurance over financial and non-financial data tailored to the needs of your business and third-party requirements.

Agreed-upon procedures where there is a need for a bespoke report on factual findings within a specific area of financial or non-financial data
Accountants reporting on grant-funded projects
Agreed-upon procedures for turnover certification, loan-covenant compliance, and internal processes and controls
Assurance over non-financial data submissions made to UK and EU regulatory bodies
Assurance over reported sustainability and environmental data