Audit Assistant 26.2 brings new ways to work with your clients, your files and your jobs. Here's a quick look at each new feature, with links to the full guides. Where a guide isn't ready yet, more information is coming soon.
Sharing Centre
The Sharing Centre is one place where your client finds everything you've shared with them: pages to answer, requests to reply to, and files to swap. Each contact gets their own link, and you can see who's on a page and follow their progress without leaving the job.
-
Share a page and choose exactly which sections and steps your client sees.
-
Set how long a share lasts, and whether your client can edit or only view.
-
Send requests for something specific and keep the whole conversation on the step.
-
See who's on a page and when they were last there.
-
Accept a page your client has submitted, or reopen it.
-
Turn on identity verification, so the right person opens each link.
See all the Sharing Centre guides
SharePoint Improvements
Attach files straight from your firm's SharePoint and OneDrive, and keep the right version of each one with the job. A SharePoint attachment is a live link until you sign off. When you conclude a page or review a file, it locks to that version and a copy is saved to the job, so later changes in SharePoint don't touch your audit file.
-
SharePoint is the default attachment type once you're connected.
-
Browse any site or drive you can open, and switch between them.
-
Upload new files straight into SharePoint from Audit Assistant.
-
Files lock to their version, with a copy saved, when you conclude or review.
-
A New version available badge and Update to Latest let you take a newer version.
-
The ZIP export includes every file, with a Source Files appendix listing each one.
Dashboard Custom Fields, Jobs & Clients
Audit Assistant now organises your work around clients and their jobs. Everything you work on is a job, and a client can have several, so you can see all of a client's work in one place. Custom fields let you record the details your firm needs on jobs, clients and contacts.
-
A new clients page sits alongside the jobs page.
-
A client can have several jobs, of the same job type or different ones.
-
Each year's job is finalised and kept as its own read-only copy.
-
A client can have several entities, with a job for each one, all kept together under the client.
-
A new contacts page, laid out to match the rest of Audit Assistant.
-
Add your own custom fields to jobs, clients and contacts.
More information coming soon.
Multi-Subsidiary Trial Balance
When your client is part of a group, bring every entity into one job and one trial balance. Add the parent and the other entities the audit covers, import the whole group, then filter, group and consolidate the trial balance by entity.
-
Add the parent, subsidiaries, branches, joint operations, joint ventures and associates.
-
Import the whole group from one file, or one file per entity.
-
Use a combined trial balance with an entity column, or a consolidation worksheet with a column for each entity.
-
Show or hide entities, and group accounts within an entity or across entities.
-
See the consolidated view: each entity, the aggregated total, consolidation adjustments and the consolidated figure.
Read the Multi-Subsidiary Trial Balance guide
New Formatting Options
Your annotations can now hold more than plain text. Add an image or a screenshot snip right beside your work, and format your notes with bulleted and numbered lists.
-
Add images to comments, follow ups and review notes with a button, by pasting a snip, or by dragging them in.
-
Resize and move images in the note.
-
Open a saved image to zoom in and rotate it.
-
Use bulleted and numbered lists in comments, follow ups, review notes, key issues, point forwards, management points, disclosures, journal entries and requests.
-
Bold, italic, underline and links, with keyboard shortcuts.
Read the New Formatting Options guide
Multiple Cross-references
Link one note to every page, step, sub-page or attachment it relies on. Cross references now sit right in the text of your note, so one note can have as many as it needs.
-
Add a cross reference with the # button in the toolbar, or type # anywhere in your note.
-
Point to a whole page, or choose a single step.
-
Link to attachments and sub-pages too.
-
Link back, so the comment shows on the page it references.
-
Works in comments, review notes, follow ups and other annotations, and in risks.
Read the cross references guide
Job Improvements
A set of smaller improvements that make everyday work on a job quicker and clearer.
-
The sidebar shows the status of each unconcluded page: started, in progress, or completed and waiting to be concluded.
-
Pages with active review notes show a review note icon in the sidebar.
-
Jobs support multiple currencies, so each job shows the right currency and currency symbol.
-
Add your own custom assessed inherent risks on the risk form.
-
Copy steps, and text you've selected within a step.
More information coming soon.
Document Vault
The Document Vault is a place to keep files that aren't attached directly to an audit file. You can attach a file from it to a job at any time, now or later. Some people may know this as permanent files.
-
Keep files at the firm level, against a client, or shared with your client through the Sharing Centre.
-
Attach a file from the Document Vault to a job at any time.
Read the Document Vault guide. More information coming soon.