Internal Controls Audit
Large cash volumes, high-value portable inventory, and thin administrative staffing. That control environment requires design, not assumption.
Cannabis businesses combine large cash volumes with high-value, easily-diverted inventory and often thin administrative staffing. That is a control environment that requires design rather than assumption.
What's Included
Why This Differs In Cannabis
The two most valuable things in the building are cash and product, both are portable, and the industry runs lean on back-office staff. Segregation of duties that is routine in a comparable non-cannabis business is often impossible here without deliberate compensating controls.
We test what exists, identify what is missing, and recommend controls that are actually implementable at your staffing level — not a theoretical structure requiring people you do not have.
Controls you can actually implement, not a structure requiring people you do not have.
Why MCA
We have served licensed cannabis operators since 2015 — one of the first firms in the country to build a practice around it — and we have worked with more than 100 operators across 30+ states. Cannabis is all we do, and all we have ever done.
Frequently Asked
We are small. Is this relevant?
Especially — small operations have the least natural segregation and the most exposure.
Will this find theft?
It is designed to find control weaknesses. Where we see indicators of actual loss, we will say so and can escalate to a forensic engagement.
How long?
Typically two to four weeks.