Weak controls cost businesses money every day — through errors, leakage, fraud, and inefficiency. NVH helps you design and implement the internal controls and process frameworks that protect your business and give you confidence in your numbers.
NVH provides internal controls advisory and design as a consultancy service. This is not a regulated audit, statutory assurance, or legal compliance service. Our work is designed to improve operational effectiveness and reduce financial risk.
Most financial losses in SMEs do not come from sophisticated fraud. They come from the mundane: duplicate payments that nobody catches, unchecked expense claims that drift upward month after month, unreconciled cash that quietly disappears, and unauthorised discounts given at the point of sale without management approval.
These are not dramatic events. They are slow, steady drains on profitability that compound over time. A business losing just £500 a month to weak controls is losing £6,000 a year — and most businesses are losing far more than that without realising it.
The solution is not more technology or more staff. It is better-designed processes with built-in checks, clear responsibilities, and evidence trails that make errors visible and fraud difficult.
43%
of SME losses caused by internal error, process failure, or lack of oversight
Single point
Most control failures involve a single person with unchecked authority over a financial process
More fundable
Businesses with documented controls are significantly more attractive to lenders and investors
(Industry estimates)
Controls that catch errors and prevent irregularities — without creating processes so heavy that your team works around them.
Maker-checker-approver frameworks that distribute responsibility appropriately — so decisions are made at the right level with the right oversight.
Exception reporting and variance triggers that flag issues at branch, department, or transaction level — before they accumulate into significant losses.
The specific controls, frameworks, and documentation delivered depend on your business size, sector, and complexity. All deliverables are agreed in your written proposal before work begins.
Internal controls engagements start from £499 for a focused assessment, through to £1,999 or more for a full controls framework with implementation support. Business size, number of locations, and controls complexity affect the final investment.
Understand your requirements
Fixed scope, fixed price
Clear timeline agreed
No. A statutory audit is a regulated assurance engagement performed by a registered auditor under ISA standards. What we provide is advisory consultancy — we review your controls, identify weaknesses, and design improvements. This is operational advisory, not regulated assurance.
We design the controls and provide full implementation support — including process documentation, training materials, and a phased rollout plan. Your team implements the controls in practice, with our guidance throughout.
A single-site controls assessment typically takes 1–2 weeks. A full controls framework design for a multi-branch business usually takes 4–8 weeks, depending on the number of locations, complexity of operations, and scope of the engagement.
Yes. Internal controls advisory is separate from compliance work. We design and improve the controls and processes that sit underneath your financial reporting — making your numbers more reliable and your operations more disciplined.
Book a free 30-minute discussion. We will talk through your current control environment and identify where improvements would have the most impact.
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