The Deloitte PNG Assurance and Advisory (“A&A”) services division provides external statutory audit as well as significant value added non-audit attest and advisory services. Zanie Theron, the service line leader, has extensive professional auditing experience including 4 years in Australia and 3 years in South Africa. Our extensive range of audit-related services extend beyond the boundaries of Papua New Guinea into Australia, New Caledonia and Solomon Islands. The A&A team currently comprises 9 fully qualified accountants and 13 semi-qualified audit experts based in PNG with technical accounting support being provided from our Deloitte Sydney and Melbourne offices. Our IT audit and advisory services are supported mainly by our highly qualified team of IT specialists from our Melbourne office.

Our clients range across the economy including banking and finance, mining and petroleum, manufacturing and retail, telecommunications, airlines, fisheries, forestry, extractive plantations, property holding, insurance, airlines, government departments and statutory bodies, charity institutions and donor funded organizations. Our risk based audit approach ensure the financial statements of an entity are in compliance with PNG Companies Act, 1997, International Financial Reporting Standards and relevant stock exchange listing requirements. Our A&A specialist services include the following:

• statutory external audits and reviews
• special purpose audits as part of due diligence on potential mergers and acquisitions and cost certification on major cost plus contracts
• agreed upon procedures to report factual findings
• financial due diligence reviews and Forensic audits that include special purpose investigations on behalf of management, shareholders and / or industry regulator
• independent expert reviews of financial processes, including internal controls, within corporate bodies aimed at facilitating reorganisation
• risk assessment workshops to facilitate risk management procedures within overall framework of corporate governance
• compliance with donor funding agreements and local regulatory frameworks, 
• information technology audits and reviews that include:
  • general computer control and application control audits
  • IT strategic planning 
  • project management and data warehousing
  • technology selection and security reviews
  • business continuity planning and process re-engineering.