Protect What You’ve Built. Before Something Happens.

Craib Accounting provides internal controls consulting through our Fractional Internal Controls service, giving growing businesses and organizations independent, ongoing oversight of the policies, practices, and people responsible for how money moves through the organization.

Strong internal controls aren’t just for when something goes wrong. They help organizations protect cash, strengthen operations, improve accountability, and make sure the financial systems and processes they rely on continue working as intended.

We look beyond what’s written in a policy manual to understand what is actually happening day to day. We identify opportunities for improvement and help management strengthen financial and operational controls before small gaps become expensive problems.

Our P³ Control Approach

Our internal controls consulting approach focuses on three areas that determine whether controls work in practice: Policies, Practices, and People.

POLICIES
Are the right financial and operational policies in place—and have they kept pace with the organization as it has grown and changed?

PRACTICES
Are approvals, disbursements, reconciliations, purchasing, payroll, and other financial processes actually being performed as intended?

PEOPLE
Are responsibilities, access, authority, and oversight appropriately structured so that no one person has unnecessary control over a financial transaction?

We Focus on Three Areas

FINANCIAL CONTROLS
We review how money enters, moves through, and leaves your organization, including accounts payable, banking, payroll, credit cards, reimbursements, vendor activity, reconciliations, cash disbursements, and financial approvals.

OPERATIONAL CONTROLS
We examine how transactions are initiated, approved, processed, reviewed, and documented—and identify inefficient practices, control gaps, or unnecessary processes that may be costing the organization money.

TECHNOLOGY & ACCESS CONTROLS
We consider who has access to accounting, banking, payment, payroll, and other financial systems and whether system permissions, approval authority, and technology safeguards align with each person’s responsibilities.

Protect How Money Leaves Your Organization

Organizations often devote significant attention to generating and protecting revenue. But strong controls over how money leaves the organization are just as important.

Craib Accounting reviews accounts payable, vendor payments, payroll, reimbursements, credit cards, ACH and wire transfers, banking access, reconciliations, and approval processes to identify opportunities to strengthen oversight and protect cash.

The goal isn’t to assume something is wrong. It’s to understand where financial exposure exists, determine whether appropriate safeguards are working, and identify practical improvements before an error, inefficient process, or control weakness becomes costly.

Internal Control Isn’t a One-Time Project.

Your business changes. Your people change. Your technology changes. Your vendors change. Responsibilities shift, new systems are introduced, and the way work gets done evolves.

A control that works today may not work the same way six months from now.

That’s why Craib’s Fractional Internal Controls service can continue beyond the initial internal control assessment with ongoing monthly or quarterly oversight. We help management evaluate whether controls continue to operate as intended, address emerging gaps, and strengthen processes as the organization evolves.

For smaller and growing businesses, stronger financial controls can also support better cash flow management by identifying unnecessary spending, payment errors, inefficient processes, weak approval practices, and other areas where cash may be leaving the business unnecessarily.

Don’t Wait for a Problem to Review Your Controls.

You don’t need to suspect wrongdoing to ask whether your financial controls are working.

Fractional Internal Controls gives your organization an independent perspective on the systems responsible for protecting its financial resources—without the need to add a full-time internal controls position.

Know where your risks are. Strengthen what’s working. Improve what isn’t. Protect the cash you’ve already earned.