Hana Mizuno
Hana spent a decade on manufacturing audits before founding the atelier. She still drafts materiality worksheets and insists every inventory observation includes a recount of high-value SKUs.
Atelier
Built for ledgers that still live on paper and screen
Mizube Audit Atelier grew from audit fieldwork across Hiroshima Prefecture — closing rooms that smelled of ink and cardboard, stockrooms counted under fluorescent light, and finance directors who wanted findings written in plain Japanese business English.
Origin
Why “atelier”
We chose atelier deliberately. Financial auditing here is craft work: sampling plans drawn by hand, vouchers traced to source contracts, and management letters edited until every sentence names a real control gap. We are not a volume factory. Engagements are few enough that partners still open the bank confirmation files themselves.
The practice is based at 610 Hunter Stream in 加藤村, chosen for its reach to coastal manufacturers along the Inland Sea and inland groups toward Hiroshima City.
People
Who leads your engagement
Kenji Arai
Kenji specialises in opening-balance work for first-time audit clients and limited reviews for boards that need interim comfort between statutory cycles.
Working approach
How we stay useful to finance teams
We schedule kick-off meetings before busy closing weeks, share document request lists in phased batches, and never surprise a client with a last-day scramble for bank letters. Findings are ranked by financial statement impact, not by theatrical language.
- Respect for production calendars when booking inventory counts
- Bilingual working papers when management prefers Japanese source documents with English report narratives
- Clear separation between audit findings and bookkeeping advice we do not provide