Haruto Matsu
Engagement partner · statutory audits and reporting
About the practice
Audit counsel rooted in paper, places, and patient review
Matsu Audit Counsel is a financial auditing practice serving companies in and around 湖榎本市. We examine accounts, observe inventory, and write reports that boards can defend — without dressing the work as something it is not.
Origin
The practice grew from partner work on statutory audits for manufacturers, wholesalers, and group subsidiaries across Yamanashi Prefecture. Clients asked for counsel that stayed through inventory counts and note disclosures rather than handing fieldwork to rotating juniors alone.
Mission
Deliver independent assurance on financial statements with clear scoping, respectful fieldwork, and findings written in language finance teams can act on before the next reporting cycle.
Working approach
Planning visits happen on site whenever ledgers and warehouses share a postcode. Materiality, related-party questions, and PBC ownership are settled early. Partner review is scheduled on the calendar, not squeezed into the night before signing.
Values
- Independence over convenience — we decline concurrent bookkeeping for audit clients
- Specificity over slogans — findings name the control, the risk, and a workable fix
- Calendar honesty — we accept fewer year-ends than we could fill
People
Engagements are led by a named partner with a field team of managers and seniors who stay on the file through reporting.
Aya Fujimura
Senior manager · controls and interim reviews
Kenji Watanabe
Field senior · inventory observation and PBC coordination
Relation to clients
We work as external auditors and advisors within independence rules. Controllers remain owners of the books; we examine, inquire, and report. When readiness consultation precedes an audit by another firm, we stay clear of that later opinion. When we are the statutory auditors, readiness work is limited to clarifying evidence expectations, not preparing the statements.
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