Cannabis controls readiness
Cannabis controls need evidence before pressure.
Practical finance, inventory, cash, and reporting-control readiness for cannabis companies preparing for audit, lender review, investor diligence, M&A, uplisting, or public-company expectations.
Ideal for
Operators facing a real diligence or reporting milestone.
- Multi-state operators approaching audit, uplisting, or public-company expectations
- Companies preparing for a lender review, investor diligence, capital raise, or M&A
- Finance teams whose spreadsheet and system controls have not kept pace with entity or location growth
- Operators that used the readiness checklist and found material evidence, ownership, or process gaps
What is included
A full readiness view — not a generic SOX checklist.
Control environment assessment
Review governance, ownership, entity structure, policies, prior findings, and the current control inventory.
- Readiness criteria tied to the actual milestone
- Process-owner and finance walkthroughs
- Risk-ranked findings and evidence gaps
Cannabis-specific process review
Assess the process areas where cannabis complexity changes ordinary control design.
- Inventory movement and COGS support
- Cash, payment, and revenue controls
- 280E-aware documentation
- Multi-entity close and intercompany activity
Systems and ITGC coordination
Map the systems that create, move, approve, and report financial information.
- Seed-to-sale, POS, ERP, payroll, and reporting interfaces
- Access, change, and evidence-retention considerations
- Coordination with the operator’s IT and systems owners
Roadmap and handoff
Translate findings into an executable plan with accountable owners and sequencing.
- Prioritized remediation roadmap
- Documentation and evidence standards
- Executive debrief and next-step recommendation
Why it works
Designed around how cannabis operators actually run.
Industry-specific risk
Inventory, COGS, cash restrictions, and seed-to-sale systems are treated as core design inputs.
Evidence over policy
The engagement tests whether approvals, reviews, reconciliations, and exceptions can be supported after the month closes.
Practical ownership
Controls are designed for the team and systems in place, with compensating paths when ideal segregation is not realistic.
Investment
$40,000–$75,000
A fixed-fee, 6–10 week engagement. Final scope depends on entity count, operating model, control maturity, and the milestone creating pressure.
Discover
Confirm the event, pressure, systems, entities, and most consequential risks.
Assess
Walk processes, review evidence, and identify the gaps that matter first.
Roadmap
Deliver the prioritized remediation plan and leadership handoff.
Anonymized example
Material Weakness Remediation & Control Framework Rewrite
For a $1.5B+ multi-state cannabis operator, the work remediated three material weaknesses, rewrote and tested 125+ business-process controls, reimplemented AuditBoard, managed PBC collection, and coordinated more than ten process walkthroughs.
Anonymized advisory engagement. Bricks Advisory does not provide audit or attest opinions.
Start with the checklist. Move to advisory when the facts support it.
The checklist is the public starting point. A scoped engagement follows only when the milestone, risk, and fit are clear.