From Audit Panic to Audit Confidence
The Problem She Walked In With
Petra managed operations for a 35-person import company. Every September, audit preparation consumed three weeks of everyone's time. The finance team would basically stop functioning while hunting down documentation and explaining discrepancies that shouldn't have existed in the first place.
"We had spreadsheets everywhere," she told us during intake. "Different versions, different formats. Nobody trusted the numbers because we'd find mistakes every time we looked."
What Actually Changed
She joined our winter 2024 cohort expecting generic accounting advice. Instead, we focused on building monthly verification habits that caught problems when they were still small. By April 2024, her team was spending 20 minutes each week on audit preparation instead of three panicked weeks in September.
The breakthrough came when she realized audits don't care about your explanations. They care about your documentation trail. So she stopped trying to remember things and started building systems that captured decisions in real time.
Where She Is Now
Their 2024 audit took four days instead of four weeks. Petra's company passed without a single major finding. More importantly, her finance team now spends time analyzing business performance instead of reconstructing the past. She's teaching the same methods to three other businesses in her network.