Dia Fernandes
Compliance & Audit
5 posts
Asset Management for Professional Services Firms
Confidential data on devices that move between clients and offices, and a partnership that would rather not discuss whose laptop went missing. Custody is the whole answer.
How to Write an Asset Management Policy (With Structure and Examples)
What an asset management policy should cover, how long it should be, and the clauses that make the difference between a document people follow and one they file.
Physical Verification of Fixed Assets: Process, Checklist and Evidence
How to plan and run a physical verification, what evidence it has to leave behind, and how to handle the discrepancies it inevitably produces.
What Is a Fixed Asset Register? Required Fields, Format and Examples
What a fixed asset register is for, the fields it has to carry, how it differs from an operational asset register, and how to build one that stays true.
Asset Audit Requirements: What Auditors Actually Ask For
Not a list of what you believe you own. A verified count, on a date, by a named person, with discrepancies attached — and why that is a different artefact from a register.