Compliance & audit
Counts, evidence and the people who ask for them.
Asset Audit Checklist: How to Run a Physical Inventory Count
A practical checklist for counting fixed assets: scope, blind counts, sampling, missing and found items, reconciling to the register and ledger, and the evidence to keep.
Hardware Asset Inventory for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 Audits
What ISO 27001, SOC 2, CIS Control 1 and NIST CSF 2.0 actually say about hardware inventory, and the evidence auditors expect: owners, leaver returns and disposal certificates.
Fixed Asset Register Requirements: US GAAP, IFRS and UK FRS 102
What a fixed asset register must hold under ASC 360, IAS 16 and FRS 102, how capitalisation thresholds and the IRS de minimis safe harbor work, and why you need both a book and a tax register.
Fixed Asset Physical Verification: How to Run a Physical Count
How to plan and run a fixed asset physical count, what US and UK auditors and grant funders expect from it, the evidence it must leave, and how to handle the discrepancies it produces.
What Is a Fixed Asset Register? Required Fields, Format and Examples
What a fixed asset register is, what US GAAP, IFRS and FRS 102 expect of it, where the capitalisation threshold sits, how book and tax registers differ, and how to reconcile it to the general ledger.
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.
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.