About
A small audit desk with Fukui year-ends in mind
Kairo Financial Audit Desk was founded to give mid-size companies in western Japan a partner who still visits the plant floor and still writes management letters directors can read aloud.
Origin
The practice began after years of March year-end fieldwork across Fukui’s manufacturing belt — textiles, machinery, and food processors whose finance teams knew their ledgers but dreaded opaque audit communication. Kairo was set up as a desk practice: lean staffing, partner-led planning, and enough calendar discipline to protect independence and sleep during peak season.
We are not a national network franchise. When an engagement needs a specialist (for example, a complex fair-value question), we bring in a known correspondent under the engagement letter rather than pretending every answer lives in-house.
How we work
Planning meetings happen before sampling starts. Materiality and significant risks are explained in ordinary language. Fieldwork follows an agreed calendar so your controller is not answering confirmation chasers during the board rehearsal. Clearance calls walk through proposed adjustments line by line.
We decline bookkeeping and tax filing for audit clients. That boundary keeps the opinion independent and keeps your year-end file owned by your team.
People at the desk
Hiroshi Kairo — Engagement partner
Leads statutory audits for manufacturers and trading houses. Former senior manager in a regional audit practice; focuses on inventory-heavy businesses and lender reporting. Speaks with boards in Japanese and prepares English summaries when foreign shareholders sit on the register.
Aya Mori — Audit manager
Runs fieldwork calendars, confirmation control, and working-paper review. Special interest in cut-off testing for companies with weekend production and consignment arrangements. Often the first voice clients hear when a sample needs a source document.
Values that show up in the file
- Plain reporting — findings ranked by board relevance, not by how impressive they sound.
- Calendar honesty — we say no when March is full rather than staffing an engagement we cannot supervise.
- Respect for the floor — inventory observations are scheduled with plant managers, not dropped as a surprise.
- Independence first — advisory work is scoped so it does not write the accounts we later audit.
Visit us at 426 Kellie Extension, 東きよ町, 福井県, Japan, or begin with an inquiry — We reply to new engagement inquiries within two business days.
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