Audit Workspace limited

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  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    Summary of Audit Workspace limited

    The Lite Audit Workspace is a streamlined version of the Audit Management workspace designed for efficient access to audit engagements, activities, and entity management. It allows users to manage audit processes with simplified features and essential functionalities.

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    Key Features

    • Roles: The Lite Audit Workspace includes roles such as snaudit.sharedadmin, snaudit.sharedmanager, snaudit.shareduser, and snaudit.sharedapprover to manage access and permissions.
    • Engagement Management: Users with the snaudit.sharedmanager role can create new engagements, while all roles can view engagements where they are assigned as Auditor or Engagement Lead.
    • Evidence Management: The Evidence feature allows users to manage evidence requests and responses, with specific roles for reading, creating, and updating evidence.
    • Entity Scoping: Users can identify which entities are involved in audits to ensure comprehensive coverage, vital for compliance assessments.
    • Activity Management: Users can document audit activities, including collecting and documenting evidence related to compliance with regulations and internal policies.

    Key Outcomes

    By utilizing the Lite Audit Workspace, ServiceNow customers can streamline their audit processes, improve collaboration among team members, and ensure thorough documentation and compliance. The ability to scope entities and manage evidence effectively enhances the overall audit quality and reliability of findings.

    The Lite Audit workspace is a simplified version of the Audit Management workspace. In this workspace, you can access engagements, add existing entities to an engagement, and create activities. If the advanced core store app is installed, evidence(s) can also be associated with the engagement.

    The Lite Audit Workspace comes with the following roles:
    • sn_audit.shared_admin
    • sn_audit.shared_manager
    • sn_audit.shared_user
    • sn_audit.shared_approver

    Access of the different roles

    The following table lists the features that you can access with the different roles.
    Table 1. Access to the different roles
    Features Create Read Update Delete
    Engagement Shared audit manager Shared audit user Shared audit manager Shared audit admin
    Activity Shared audit manager Shared audit user Shared audit manager Shared audit admin
    Entity to engagement Shared audit manager Shared audit user Shared audit manager Shared audit manager

    Accessing the Lite Audit Workspace Home page

    Navigate to All > Audit Workspace.

    Lite Audit home page.

    You can view all engagements where you are assigned as the Auditor or Engagement Lead. You can also view the activities associated with those engagements.

    From the homepage, if you have the sn_audit.shared_manager role, you can create new engagements and if you have the sn_grc_advanced.evidence_requester role, you can create evidence requests.

    Lite Audit Engagement access.

    Evidence feature access

    The Evidence feature provides access to evidence requests, collection details, and evidence responses. The following feature roles are introduced to perform various operations:
    • sn_grc_advanced.evidence_reader: Can read evidence requests, collection details, and evidence responses.
    • sn_grc_advanced.evidence_requester: Can create and update evidence requests, collection details, and evidence responses. Also, have access to review, approve, or reject evidence responses.
    • sn_grc_advanced.evidence_responder: Can create and update evidence requests, collection details, and evidence responses.
    • sn_grc_advanced.evidence_admin: Can create, read, update, and delete evidence requests, collection details, and evidence responses.

    Entity scoping

    Scoping an entity in an engagement identifies which entities are involved in the audit. For example, in a financial audit, this may include the finance department and all business services it depends on.

    Activity Audit task

    Audit activities involve collecting and documenting evidence to show that the organization complies with external regulations and internal policies. For more information, see Create an audit task activity.

    Evidence request

    Audit evidence refers to all information used by auditors to form their audit opinion. This includes data from accounting records, financial statements, and other relevant sources. Evidence is cumulative and may come from current audit procedures as well as prior audits. For more information, see Request evidence for audit.