Client stories
Evidence from completed engagements
These notes come from finance directors, controllers, and audit committee chairs who worked with Clear Harbor on specific financial auditing engagements.
They spent two full days on our Kashiwa warehouse count and caught a consignment tagging issue we had lived with for three seasons. The management letter was blunt about cutoff, which I needed more than polite praise.
Our first statutory year under Clear Harbor ran longer than I hoped—opening balances took an extra week—but the exit meeting walked the board through every residual risk without jargon.
Interim review kept our parent company pack on schedule. They asked for forecast evidence early instead of surprising us in the final call.
I still wish the document request list had arrived a few days earlier, yet once fieldwork started the team was precise about sampling and left our clerks with clear follow-ups.
Changing auditors mid-cycle felt risky. Clear Harbor’s opening-balance work and predecessor outreach made the transition orderly enough that we filed on the original date.
Extended story
First-year statutory audit for a moldings subsidiary
Pacific Moldings Japan appointed Clear Harbor after their previous auditor retired. Opening equity and retained earnings required an extra week of testing because predecessor working papers arrived late. Inventory observation at two plants outside Chiba identified consignment tags that had never been reconciled to supplier ledgers.
The engagement still met the original filing date because interim fieldwork had already cleared revenue sampling and related-party confirmations. The audit committee chair later noted that the management letter’s inventory section was the most useful page for operations — even though the opinion itself was unmodified.
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