What a venue audit should actually tell you

A useful audit ends with a decision, not a document. It should tell an owner where money is leaving the building, how much of it, and what has to change first.

That means every finding carries a number and an owner. 'Bar controls are weak' is an observation. 'Untracked pouring is costing roughly $84,000 a year, and here is the counting discipline that closes it' is an audit finding.

Sequence matters as much as substance. Fixing twenty things at once fixes none of them; the right report ranks by cash impact against effort and names the first ninety days.

Finally, an audit should be repeatable. If nobody can run the same review next year and compare, you bought a snapshot instead of a baseline.