These cookies are required for the website to function properly. They ensure security, enable basic features like page navigation, and store user session data. You cannot disable these cookies.
- Audit Management
- Who it's for
- Internal audit teams
Internal audit teams
An internal audit team needs a clear way to carry an issue from fieldwork into a management response. Audit Management connects assessment context with findings and response evidence. The Audit Manager can inspect the work awaiting a decision while the Chief Audit Executive reads the portfolio through its recorded periods and current states.
How Audit Management is set up for you
Assessment boundaries
Use the subject and scope statement to explain the exercise. Period dates help the team distinguish a recurring review from an earlier assessment covering a similar activity.
Finding decisions
The Auditor prepares the description and evidence reference. The Audit Manager checks the support before approving the finding and retains a reasoned decision for later discussion.
Management follow-up
The Control Owner prepares a corrective response and supplies evidence. The Independent Assurance Reviewer examines follow-up material against the finding and control.
An internal audit team needs a clear way to carry an issue from fieldwork into a management response. Audit Management connects assessment context with findings and response evidence. The Audit Manager can inspect the work awaiting a decision while the Chief Audit Executive reads the portfolio through its recorded periods and current states.
Begin with a supplier access review for a business unit the audit team already knows. Prepare the assessment period and use an engagement to organize the control sample. Choose a finding that needs a clear response so the pilot exercises the handoff between Auditor and Control Owner.
Before inviting a wider group, rehearse a finding that the Audit Manager returns for more evidence. Check that the Auditor understands the reason and can locate the correct supporting document. Then complete an approval and inspect the decision and operation receipt before preparing the response.
Agree who investigates operation exceptions during the cycle and who maintains access to evidence held elsewhere. Review a Released response with its follow-up workpaper so the team understands how it will explain the evidence at the next management meeting. Use the [implementation plan](/audit-management/implementation) to capture those operating choices and repeat the pilot with the normal participants.
Features to start with
Roles on the team
- Admin
- Maintains access configuration and the organization directories used during audit setup.
- Auditor
- Prepares assessment scopes, engagement tests and findings with linked evidence.
- Audit Manager
- Reviews finding support and authorizes corrective response release within the agreed audit scope.
- Control Owner
- Maintains control descriptions and prepares corrective responses for review.
- Independent Assurance Reviewer
- Examines retest evidence and records an independent review of the related finding or response.
- Chief Audit Executive
- Reads assessment coverage, finding decisions and unresolved operation results across the agreed portfolio.
Set up Audit Management your way.
Start free, then use Proto to change fields, steps and approvals before your team goes live.