Archer Audit Engagements & Workpapers 2024.03
Archer Audit Engagements & Workpapers enables you to track your audit universe, perform audit engagements, maintain workpaper documentation, perform testing, and report on audit results in a consistent and timely manner.
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Benefits of the Audit Engagements & Workpapers Use Case
Archer Audit Engagements & Workpapers helps you transform the efficiency of your audit department, complete better-scoped audits more quickly, and decrease internal audit time and external audit fees.
For the key features and benefits of this use case, see the Data Sheet on the Archer Community: https://www.archerirm.community/t5/solution-use-case-overviews/archer-solutions-amp-use-cases/ba-p/572564
How Audit Engagements & Workpapers Fits into a Risk and Compliance Program
Audit Engagements & Workpapers is a use case in the Audit Management solution area. The following sections describe the use cases that Audit Engagements & Workpapers requires as a prerequisite, which use cases you can upgrade to as your audit program matures, and which use cases in other solution areas you can integrate for additional business context and functionality.
Prerequisite and Next Use Cases
Prerequisites |
What you have |
What's next |
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Issues Management |
Audit Engagements & Workpapers |
Audit Planning & Quality |
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Enterprise Catalog |
Related Use Cases in Other Solution Areas
Application |
Use Cases |
Primary Purpose(s) of the Relationship |
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Control Procedures / Control sets |
Controls Assurance Program Management
IT Controls Assurance
IT Risk Management
Risk Inventory and Top-Down Assessment |
When you scope by Control Procedures as an audit entity, this allows the Data Feed Manager to populate the related risks and controls associated with the Control Procedures record. |
Risk Register |
Risk Catalog Risk Inventory and Top-Down Assessment ISMS IT Risk Management |
When you scope by Risk Register as an audit entity, this allows the Data Feed Manager to populate the related risks and controls associated with the Risk Register record. |
Process Narratives |
Financial Controls Monitoring |
When you scope by Process Narratives into an audit entity, this allows the Data Feed Manager to populate the related risks and controls associated with the Process Narratives record. |
Business Unit |
IT Asset Catalog Cyber Incident & Breach Response |
When you scope by Business Units as an audit entity, this allows the Data Feed Manager to populate the related risks and controls associated with the Business Unit record. |
Applications |
Audit Engagements & Workpapers Business Continuity & IT Disaster Recovery Planning Third Party Governance IT Asset Catalog IT Controls Assurance Information Security Management System PCI Management IT Security Vulnerabilities Program IT Risk Management Cyber Incident & Breach Response Data Governance Operational Risk Management |
When you scope by Applications as an audit entity, this allows the Data Feed Manager to populate the related risks and controls associated with the Application record. |
Facilities |
Audit Engagements & Workpapers Business Continuity & IT Disaster Recovery Planning IT Controls Assurance Information Security Management System PCI Management IT Risk Management Cyber Incident & Breach Response |
When you scope by Facilities as an audit entity, this allows the Data Feed Manager to populate the related risks and controls associated with the Facilities record. |
Business Processes |
Audit Engagements & Workpapers IT Controls Assurance IT Risk Management Data Governance |
When you scope by Business Processes as an audit entity, this allows the Data Feed Manager to populate the related risks and controls associated with the Business Process record. |
Compliance Scope |
Control Assurance Program Management |
When you scope by Compliance Scope as an audit entity, this Allows the Data Feed Manager to populate the related risks and controls associated with the Compliance Scope record. |
Note: The Audit Planning & Quality use case allows you to scope your audit entities by additional relationships: to risks and control procedures; authoritative sources, policies, and corporate objectives; and to information assets, products and services, and third parties. These relationships are only available if you have also licensed use cases that contains these applications.