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Lean in Audit™ is KPMG’s award-winning methodology that provides unprecedented insights to improve your processes through the audit.

Organizations expect auditors to deliver more value through the audit – to go beyond regulatory need to provide insights that identify opportunities to improve business processes. By incorporating Lean process analysis techniques into our standard audit procedures, we engage and empower your team to see business processes through a different lens.

What is Lean?

Lean is a continuous process improvement mindset that creates business value by eliminating waste. Originally developed for manufacturing environments, today it is used increasingly across the whole enterprise, including operations and finance.

Most processes generate waste and inefficiencies (typically up to 95%). By identifying and removing ‘wasteful’ activities such as wait time or effort spent on fixing errors, your employees can spend more time on running the business.

Lean in Audit helps organizations

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Deliver greater value to your customers and minimize waste.

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Streamline processes, minimize costs and improve quality and efficiency.

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Engage and empower your teams to actively participate in business improvement.

Unleash the potential of your business

Client success stories

Month-end: 73% improvement in month-end close process (from 11 to 3 days)
Sales revenue: 26% reduction in unnecessary customer interaction points
Payroll: 60% improvement in 'first time right' processing of employee records and timesheets
Payments: 95%+ of payments processed via Electronic Funds Transfer (previously 60%)

Source: KPMG in Canada

Sales revenue: 2000 hours saved annually by streamlining cash receipts process
Claims: 87% reduction in claims handling time

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