Engagement
Cloud Expense Audit Engagement
A structured review of your cloud invoices, usage charges, and allocation records so finance can close the books with confidence.
Who it is for
Finance controllers, FP&A leads, and procurement partners who own cloud spend in Taiwanese and regional teams.
What you receive
A signed audit memorandum, exception register, and recommended adjustments ready for your next close cycle.
Scope
Invoice sampling across major cloud vendors, usage-to-invoice reconciliation, cost-centre allocation checks, and variance commentary for the review period.
Included
- Kick-off scoping call and document request list
- Sample selection across compute, storage, and network line items
- Reconciliation of billed amounts to usage extracts
- Allocation integrity checks against your chart of accounts
- Written findings memorandum and exception register
- Walkthrough session with finance stakeholders
Not included
- Live production access or infrastructure changes
- Software licensing negotiations with vendors
- Ongoing month-end bookkeeping
How the work runs
Engagements led by CloudScalr audit staff based in Taichung, with bilingual EN/ZH working papers on request.
- Scope confirmation and period selection
- Document intake and sample design
- Fieldwork and reconciliation
- Draft findings and management discussion
- Final memorandum delivery
Timing and delivery
Duration: Typically three to five weeks for a single-vendor primary review; multi-vendor scopes run longer.
Delivery: Remote document review with optional on-site close-out at your Taiwan office.
Preparation: Provide vendor invoices, usage CSVs, allocation keys, and prior-period journal entries for the selected months.
Constraints: We work from read-only extracts you supply; we do not require console credentials.
Pricing basis
Fixed engagement fee based on vendor count, months reviewed, and sample depth. Starting from NT$85,000.