Audit support
Grant compliance support
Grant compliance support from Finbryn tracks EU and national grant funds separately from other revenue, codes spending against the approved budget line by line, and prepares funder reports on schedule. Our accounting team organises the documentation a programme officer or reviewer expects, ready before it is requested.
Auditor request list
Illustrative client · August 2026
EUR
- Trial balance and general ledger exportDone
- Bank confirmations and statementsDone
- Receivables and payables listingsDone
- Fixed asset register with additionsIn progress
- Accruals and prepayments supportNext
Illustrative. An example of the document, not a client's figures.
Grants cross borders, your reporting has to as well
A scale-up operating across several member states can easily be running a Horizon Europe award, a regional development grant from one national agency and an innovation subsidy from another, all at once, each with its own currency of reference, its own reporting language and its own idea of what a supporting document should look like. Treating them as one undifferentiated pot of income is how a straightforward reimbursement claim turns into a week of reconstruction.
One structure per award
Each grant gets its own segment in the ledger from the day the agreement is signed, with spending coded against the approved budget line as it happens, not rebuilt from bank statements months later. A drift between actual and budgeted spend on any single line shows up the same month it happens, while there is still time to reallocate or flag it to the programme officer, rather than surfacing for the first time in a year end report nobody can fix.
What a reviewer receives
Larger EU and national awards usually call for a certified statement of expenditure in the funder's own template, sometimes checked by an independent auditor before submission. We build that statement from the segmented ledger and assemble the underlying evidence, invoice by invoice, so the figures a reviewer sees are traceable rather than summarised.
Where the line sits
Deciding whether a specific cost qualifies under an award's rules is a judgement for your programme lead and the funder, informed by our flag when a cost looks outside the agreed terms, never a call we make on our own. Local GAAP and VAT treatment of grant income differ by member state, so this work runs alongside, and often feeds, audit-ready books and PBC list management for the same entity.
Questions
Frequently asked questions: Grant compliance support
Do you track Horizon Europe grants alongside national grants?
Yes. Each grant is tracked as its own segment with its own reporting calendar, so an EU programme report and a national agency report do not get confused with each other.
Can you prepare a certified statement of expenditure for a funder?
We prepare the schedule from your tracked grant activity and organise the supporting documentation; where the agreement requires independent certification, that step sits with your appointed auditor or the funder's named reviewer.
What if we are unsure whether a cost is allowable under the grant?
We flag it against the award's stated terms rather than guessing. The final allowability decision sits with your programme staff and, where needed, the funder.
Do you handle grants across multiple EU member states in one group?
Yes. Each entity's grant activity is tracked separately, then rolled up for group reporting where the funding agreement calls for it.
Can you track spending against more than one grant on the same project?
Yes, spending is tagged by grant and by cost category, so overlapping funding on one project stays separated and each funder's statement of expenditure draws only from its own allocation rather than a blended total.
Can you track multiple grants with different reporting periods?
Yes. Each grant is set up as its own tracked segment, with reporting deadlines managed separately from your regular monthly close.
Do you decide which costs are allowable under the grant?
We code costs against the approved budget and flag anything that looks outside its terms; the funder's guidelines and your program staff make the final allowability call.
What if our records for grant compliance support are not up to date?
If your records are behind, we scope a catch-up first so grant compliance support starts from a clean, reconciled base. That catch-up is priced and timed separately from the ongoing engagement, so you always know what each part costs.
Who reviews the work before it reaches us?
Every deliverable under grant compliance support is reviewed by a senior reviewer before it reaches you. You keep access to the underlying file at every stage, so nothing about the work happens somewhere you cannot see it.
Related services
- Audit supportPBC list managementThe auditor's provided-by-client request list tracked item by item, with documents gathered, organized and delivered on schedule instead of chased down in the final week.
- Audit supportAudit-ready booksMonthly and year-end books maintained with the support and schedules an external auditor expects to see on day one, so fieldwork starts without a scramble to reconstruct records.
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