Stantons International Audit & Consulting Pty Ltd (“Stantons International”) is a professional services firm based in West Perth, Western Australia with offices in Darwin and Canberra.
For over thirty years, Stantons International has provided a diverse range of compliance and advisory services to corporate and government sectors with a specialist presence in audit and assurance, corporate advisory and internal audit services.
Stantons International is a member of Russell Bedford International - a global network of independent accountancy firms, business consultants and specialist legal advisers. Stantons International prides itself in achieving success for its clients by offering a high standard of professional service, integrity, confidentiality and practical solutions.
The structure of Stantons International allows for a high level of director involvement on all assignments, and for the technical and administrative support capability to respond quickly and efficiently. Stantons International has six specialist service lines, which are dedicated to bringing focus based solutions to clients’ needs.
Stantons International has three directors, supported by three principals and over thirty professional and administrative staff. The management structure maintains a personalised service to clients, focusing on areas of specialisation and providing ease of access by clients to director/principal level staff.
Stantons International is an Authorised Audit Company, in accordance with the requirements of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
Their clients include both public and private companies, government agencies and departments across all three tiers of government, not for profit organisations and religious and cultural organisations. Many have multiple locations of operations including overseas domiciles as well as rural and remote sites. Their clients, across all service lines, represent a diverse range of industries including:
In addition, Stantons has successfully tendered and won several large international governance contracts with
Services
Audit & Assurance
Stantons International specialises in the provision of external audit services to publicly listed and unlisted companies, who are both domiciled and have operations, in Australia as well as overseas. Their niche specialisation and years of experience in servicing mining and energy, manufacturing, services and retail industries, allows Stantons to be synonymous with producing high quality, value for money audits.
Corporate & Advisory Services
Their practice helps clients make better business decisions. They provide business with financial advice to assist in strategies, competitiveness and insight, and they support business change. They are well recognised in the Western Australian market as a leader in providing Investigating Accountants Reports, Independent Expert Reports and Share/Options Valuations. They recognise their clients want Growth, Opportunity and Best Management and they provide the experience and technology to benefit their missions.
IT Audit & Risk Consulting
Their IT Audit and Consulting practice offers a full range of specialist IT assurance and risk related services at extremely competitive rates. They specialise in the delivery of IT security, assurance and risk consulting services and have delivered services to Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments for more than 30 years. Due to their specialist nature they offer an independent consulting and assurance service in relation to IT related functions, this can cover both technical and/or strategic areas of an organisation.
Internal Audit
Their Internal Audit practice provides value-added support that enables organisations to improve their operations. For those clients with a new internal audit function they focus on compliance based audits ensuring they are meeting their requirements against the Financial Management Act and Treasurer’s Instructions. They focus on the financial aspects including general financial controls, payroll and human resources. For clients who have a greater level of maturity in relation to internal audit they shift their focus towards performance and operational based engagements.
Probity and Procurement
Probity is defined as ‘integrity, uprightness, honesty’ – Their probity services are concerned with the examination and evaluation of whether a process is being complied with over the life of a project. It can also consider whether established criteria, standards and principles have been complied with. While typically probity activities are focused on the procurement of goods or services, they can be applied to any process which has a defined approach and expected outcome; such as recruitment of personnel or the disposal of an asset. Supporting their probity focus, they have extensive experience in the public sector procurement environment, providing a range of specialised consultancy services in procurement and contract management.
Consulting and Advisory Services
Their consulting solutions are built on the firm’s experience in audit and assurance, risk management and probity and procurement. They have a strong history of offering innovative solutions to the international development sector with projects ranging from the development and implementation of financial management and procurement systems, participation in design teams, peer reviews, independent review teams, to providing probity advice to politically sensitive procurement activities.
