Risk Assurance & Advisory

Contract Compliance

Businesses often fail to get the full value from their third-party relationships, resulting in substantial unrealized revenue. Third-party contract audits help maximize your financial benefits while mitigating non-financial risks with critical business partners.
Risk Assurance Contract Compliance
Our Approach
Objective Assessment of Your Third-Party Relationships
Good partnerships are built on trust. But without effective controls and ongoing monitoring, you’re blindly relying on external processes and reporting to determine compliance with your executed agreements. An independent audit of critical contracts can identify areas of non-compliance with your vendors, distributors, licensees, suppliers, franchisees and other business partners.
What We Do
Build a Systematic Process to Preserve Your Third-Party Relationships
Achieve the maximum value from your third-party contracts by leveraging leading data and analytics solutions and years of hands-on experience — streamlining your management procedures.
Strategy Listen
Listen
Conduct group sessions and individual stakeholder discussions
Strategy Assess
Assess
Identify the core challenges and opportunities with your people, processes and technology
Strategy Analyze
Analyze
Benchmark your organization against the industry and common business practices
Strategize
Strategize
Enable you to build a competitive advantage and execute a strategic roadmap
Strategy Report
Report
Offer new processes, systems and process flows
Strategy Recommend
Recommend
Define the optimal future state of your business

Extensive Solutions

Suite of Services

We combine our industry knowledge, deep audit experience and the latest analytics technology to achieve bottom-line results across a broad spectrum of third-party relationships.

  • Distributor & Reseller Review
  • Supplier & Vendor Audits
  • Royalty & Franchise Licensing Compliance
  • Accounts Payable Disbursement Audits
  • Ad Agency Contract Audits
  • Joint Venture & Profit Participation Assessments
  • Construction and Capital Project Audit & Advisory
  • Commercial Lease Assessments
Industries
Depth of Expertise
The minute details of contracts can vary depending on the industry. An auditor who doesn’t understand the complexities of your business and its relationships could lead to money left on the table. Ensure that won’t happen by working with a team that has extensive knowledge of your sector.
Experts
Kevin Guy - Risk Assurance & Advisory
Partner
Kevin has experience in third party compliance, internal audit, process redesign, finance, and operations improvement.

Dallas, TX
Darla Crain - Risk Assurance & Advisory | Armanino
Managing Director
Darla specializes in royalty examinations, business valuations, license examinations and litigation support for clients.

St. Charles, MO
Chris Spartz - Risk Assurance & Advisory| Armanino
Director
An experienced consultant with a track record of working in complex global environments.

Dallas, TX
Resources
Analytics Company Gains Strategic Edge by Validating Its Data Model
Case Study
Granular evaluation of NCS Analytics’ data model provides peace of mind for company and customers.

June 05, 2023
Updated April 21, 2023
Contract Compliance Guide: Minimize Third-Party Risk and Maximize Your Financial Benefits
Article
Are you setting your organization up for unnecessary risk and missing bottom line growth opportunities?

November 17, 2022
3 Third-Party Risks That May Affect Your Bottom Line
Article
Discover how contract management can benefit your bottom line and help you develop efficient vendor relationships.

October 10, 2022
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