Overview
Targeted procedures on the specific items you and your stakeholders need answered.
AsuraTrust offers Agreed Upon Procedures (AUP) services, engagements which provide a flexible, targeted approach for addressing specific financial, operational, or compliance related questions. Under an AUP engagement, we work with you—and, when applicable, specified third parties such as lenders or investors—to define the exact procedures to be performed. We then carry out those procedures and report our factual findings.
AUP engagements are ideal when full financial statement audits or reviews are not required, but independent verification is still needed. Common uses include testing specific account balances, validating contract compliance, confirming internal control processes, or examining agreed upon data for regulatory or stakeholder purposes.
Engagement details
How our AUP engagements are performed, and what they cover.
Scope
Can involve financial or non-financial subject matter.
Flexibility
Procedures are custom-defined by you and any specified third parties.
When to use
Ideal when targeted, independent verification is needed for a specific purpose.
Output
Results in a practitioner’s report of factual findings — no opinion or conclusion expressed.
Who it’s for
The parties that most often rely on agreed-upon procedures.
Owners & management
When a specific question needs an independent answer — a particular account balance, process, or calculation — agreed-upon procedures deliver focused, factual findings without a full-scope engagement.
Lenders & investors
Third parties sometimes need specific financial data independently verified — covenant calculations, borrowing bases, or key balances. An AUP engagement reports factual findings on exactly those items.
Contract & compliance parties
Royalty and license agreements, leases, franchise arrangements, and grant or regulatory programs often call for independent verification of specific terms. AUP engagements address exactly the items in question.
AUP vs. examination
Two attest engagements on specific subject matter — one reports findings, the other expresses an opinion.
No opinion or conclusion is expressed — the report presents factual findings, and users draw their own conclusions.
Reasonable assurance — an independent opinion is expressed on the subject matter against suitable criteria.
The engaging parties — procedures are custom-defined by you and any specified third parties, tailored to the exact questions at hand.
The practitioner determines the nature, timing, and extent of procedures needed to support an opinion.
A practitioner’s report describing each procedure performed and the factual findings from each.
An examination report expressing an opinion on whether the subject matter follows the applicable criteria.
Targeted, independent verification is needed for a specific purpose — without the scope of a full examination or audit.
Stakeholders need a high level of independent assurance on specific subject matter beyond the financial statements.
