Midori Sato
Leads statutory audits and signs reports. Prior focus on manufacturing inventory and revenue contracts with volume rebates.
About the practice
Auditors who still sit with the binders
Cedar Scope Financial Review grew from year-end engagements for regional manufacturers and trading companies along the Sea of Japan coast. We remain a hands-on assurance practice—not a distant review desk.
Origin
Why we opened in 新小西村
Many mid-size companies here rotate between Tokyo firms for the opinion letter and local bookkeepers for the daily ledger. That gap left controllers without a partner who understood both the reporting calendar and the realities of a shop-floor cut-off. We set up near Toyama so fieldwork could happen without a week of travel logistics for every engagement.
Our name reflects the cedar forests inland and the scoped, bounded nature of an audit—what is in the financial statements, what evidence supports them, and what remains management’s judgment.
People
Who you will meet on site
Daiki Nakamura
Runs fieldwork schedules, confirmation tracking, and draft management letters for interim and year-end work.
Yui Tanaka
Coordinates document rooms, walkthroughs of cash and purchases, and readiness assessments before peak season.
Approach
Values that show up in the query log
We write findings in concrete terms—account, period, evidence gap—not abstract risk language. Independence is non-negotiable: we do not prepare the books we later audit. Clients keep ownership of estimates; we test the support behind them.
Relationships with Toyama’s business community matter: we schedule around Golden Week and fiscal-year rushes, and we return confirmations to the same finance contacts year after year when the engagement continues.