Auditor Assistant

Managing Your Internal Audit Activity

Auditor Assistant allows you to effectively manage your audit activity and add value to your organization by implementing a risk-based audit plan. This plan helps to determine the priorities of the audit activity, consistent with your organization's goals.

Auditor Assistant functionality allows you to:

Audit Universe

• Document and store auditable entities by plan year,
  business lines, etc.
• Build future plan years from current universe and retain historical information
• Reduce setup effort through Microsoft Excel import capabilities

Risk Assessment

• Design your risk assessment based on your
  organization's environment
• Tailor scoring metrics and recommended ratings/recommended audit frequencies
• Assess and rate auditable entities based on your defined risk factors, resulting in an organizational "heat map"

Annual Planning

• Define three-year audit plan based on recommended audit frequency from risk assessment and past audit history
• Propose quarter-by-quarter audits for upcoming plan year; includes ability to defer and accelerate audits as needed
• Automatically produce an annual audit plan with proposed audit schedules, based on your risk assessment
• Initiate audit plan from planning wizard or import via Microsoft Excel

Resource Scheduling

• Integrate scheduling with risk assessment/audit planning to seamlessly schedule planned projects and resources via a Web-enabled visual Gantt interface
• Schedule projects and resources based on user-defined timeframes and filters
• Export filtered schedule reports seamlessly to Microsoft Excel

Timekeeping

• Track project and administrative time on a weekly or monthly basis
• Easily compare budget vs. actual time, per project and department