Fair pricing for premium services

There are a range of audit options available. These can include a focus on any specific business area, or indeed a combination of business areas, creating a hybrid audit. Wherever your focus lies, on brand protection, financial policy compliance, operational, or stock and cash control, audits will be priced according to the time needed to complete the task at hand.

We are able to conduct audit visits at any time of the day or week. It may be the case that you need your busiest periods monitored and on occasion these could fall outside of the normal office hours and working hours that Venners operate within. Particularly night-time industry operators for example, may wish to audit their venues at night. The charge for audits will always reflect the fair wage we offer to our auditors to conduct night-time and weekend visits.

Our audit rotation schedule is determined primarily by the client. Our compliance consultants will, however, always advise on an appropriate and effective frequency of audits. This does not have to be standardised across your estate and may be set up on a bespoke basis for relevant sites. You may for instance, audit your underperforming sites more frequently than your best performing sites. Shorter audit cycles do tend to make analysis a lot more straightforward than longer cycles. The agreed audit frequency will determine the ultimate cost to the customer.

We aim to commit one member of our team per site visit. This is always calculated on a full day or half day basis. Some audits we conduct also require an element of extra preparatory work. For example, it may be that some investigation is conducted into till use to highlight irregular procedures before we visit a particular site. With remote access this can be conducted in advance to focus the visit on any particular issues noted. Our audit pricing will account for both remote based and site based work allocated to each audit.

Each of our audits are set up with a unique question set. Prior to the rollout of our audit programmes our management team will first spend time with you and a selection of your sites to understand your company procedures and policies to set the questions and train the auditors. There is a cost for this but there are economies of scale that we can apply to multi-site companies. Equally, if the visits are to be more frequent to each location the set up cost is easily accounted for.