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CORAA vs staffing agencies.

An agency places a person in your team. CORAA delivers a finished file. The difference is what your team supervises, and for how long.

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Side by side

Criterion	Fulfilled by CORAA	The alternative
What you receive	A finished audit file: lead schedules, tie-out, ledger checks and proposed entries, with every flag cleared and logged.	A person who works on your files under your direction.
Onboarding	None on your side. You send the client’s books and documents.	Your team orients the person to your methodology, templates and software.
Supervision	Your manager and partner review the finished file.	Your senior or manager directs the person through each file.
Where the work happens	Inside CORAA’s environment.	In your systems or the placed person’s, as you arrange.
Commitment	Per audit.	Set by the agency’s terms.
Pricing structure	A flat fee per audit, set by entity size. Messy books included.	Set by the agency.
Can you hire the person	Yes, with no fee to you or the reviewer.	Subject to the agency’s placement terms.

When an agency is the better fit

If you need someone in the seat to do on-site work, meet clients or do work beyond the working papers, an agency placement fits. The same holds for a role that needs your systems and your people each day.

If the bottleneck is working papers that can be done from the books and documents, a finished file removes the onboarding and supervision hours your team would otherwise spend.

What your firm does either way

Whether you use CORAA or an agency, these responsibilities do not move.

Accepting the client

Client acceptance, the engagement letter and the independence evaluation are your firm’s.

Reviewing the work

Your manager and partner review the file as they would any staff-prepared file, and document that review.

Signing the report

Your firm issues the report. CORAA never signs, issues or reports on anything.

Free resources for this work

Guides, templates and calculators on this site that cover the same ground. All free to use.

GuideOutsourced Audit Support for CPA Firms: Using Offshore Accounting and Audit Staffing Responsibly GuideBuilding a Bench: Seasonal and Remote Audit Staff for Small CPA Firms GuideThe CPA Talent Shortage: Capacity Strategies for Small Firms GuideSupervision and Review of Outsourced Audit Work Under AU-C 220 as Revised by SAS 146 TemplateBusy-Season Capacity Planner (Excel)ToolStaff Capacity Planning Calculator: Headcount Needed for a Workload

Questions firms ask

No. CORAA delivers a finished file for each audit. We do not place people in your office, and we do not take on client contact.

You review the finished file, as you would any staff-prepared file. There is no per-file direction while the file is drafted.

Yes. Placed staff can do the on-site work while a finished file covers the working papers.

Each flag the reviewer cleared, with a name, a time and a reason, so your manager can see what was decided and why.

Your first audit is free. After that, a flat fee per audit, set by the size of the entity: revenue, transactions and number of entities. Messy books are included, never a surcharge.

Sources: AICPA quality management standards · AICPA Statements on Auditing Standards, currently effective

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CORAA AI drafts audit working papers from your client’s QuickBooks books and does the first pass: lead schedules, tie-out, memos, draft notes and letters. CORAA Network reviewers clear every finding. Your firm reviews and signs.

First audit free, so you can judge the quality on a real file
Flat fee by entity size; messy books included
We work only with CPA firms, never their clients

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