Most importantly, accounting and auditing may not be your area of expertise and this will threaten the validity of the strategic plan that your internal team produces. Leveraging a team that is both objective and experienced may expose internal shortcomings before they affect your success. Leveraging a team that is both objective and experienced may expose internal shortcomings before they affect your success. Small and medium-sized enterprises establish a variety of goals that may or may not enable them to remain profitable. An entrepreneur may be determined to grow or diversify production, but that does not mean that his/her company's pre-established processes are set up to realize these goal.By staying in contact with your external auditor you can better understand business outcomes when your strategic plan dictates more favourable alternatives.