Request evidence for audit

Request evidence at any stage during an audit. The details about the items for which evidence is requested are also provided to the person responsible for providing the evidence.

Before you begin

Role required: The role required for Audit Management is sn_audit.user.

Following are the roles required for Lite Audit:

• sn_grc_advanced.evidence_reader
• sn_grc_advanced.evidence_requester
• sn_grc_advanced.evidence_responder
• sn_grc_advanced.evidence_admin

About this task

An evidence can be requested in the following three ways:

• By creating an evidence record from the My Evidence module.
• From the Entity, Control, Audit Task, Control Test Issue, and Other Issues related lists in an engagement record. To request evidence from these sources, navigate to Audit > Engagements > My Engagements. Open the engagement record, and select the related list from which you want to request evidence. From the Action on selected rows list, select Request Evidence. Here, you can either create a new evidence request or add more requests to an existing evidence request. The Evidence request is created but not evidence request tasks.

  Select Create a new evidence request task in the Request evidence page to create request task.

• From the following tables: Entity, Control, Control Objective, Control Test, Engagement, Issue. However, when the users request evidence from these tables, the evidence request is created not the actual evidence request task. The users must go to the evidence request record that is generated and then add evidence request tasks.

In this procedure, the method to request evidence from the My Evidence module is described.

Procedure

1. Navigate to Audit > My Evidence Request.
2. Select New.
3. On the form, fill in the fields.

   Table 1. Evidence Request form

   Field	Description
   Number	Unique number of the evidence request.
   Requester	User requesting evidence. This field is automatically populated.
   Requested on behalf of	User for whom evidence is being requested.
   Assignment group	Group assigned to provide evidence.
   Assigned to	User responsible for providing the evidence.
   State	State of the request. The default state is Draft.
   Type	The default type is Audit.
   Request reason	Reason for requesting evidence.
   Watch list	Users interested in viewing the evidence collected. If a person is added on the watch list, they can navigate to Audit > Evidence Request > Watched Evidence Requests to view the requests.
   Short description	Brief description of the evidence request.
   Description	Detailed description of the evidence request.
   Schedule
   Due date	Expected date of evidence submission.
   Opened	Date the request is opened. This date is automatically updated.
   Closed	Date the request is closed. This date is automatically updated.
   Activity
   Work notes	Type any notes that might be required.
   Activities	Activity log for the request.
   Confidentiality
   Confidential	Option to enable confidentiality of the record. Only the assigned confidential users or confidential groups of users can access the record. For more information on confidential option, see Confidentiality flag for audit and compliance records.
   Context	The table for the context record.
   Context record	Context record for the evidence request.
   Source	The object from where the evidence is initiated. Add this to the above table.

4. Save the form.
   The Evidence Collection Details related list appears. This related list is used to list the items for which evidence is requested.
5. Select New.
6. On the form, fill in the fields.

   Table 2. Evidence Collection Detail form

   Field	Description
   Evidence request	Unique number of the evidence request task.
   Evidence for	Record for which evidence is requested.
   Assignment group	Group assigned to provide evidence. The users of this group must have the sn_grc.business_user roles.
   Assigned to	User responsible for providing evidence.
   Evidence collection instructions	Instructions for providing evidence. For example, list of supporting documents, files, and so on.

7. Select OK.
8. Select Submit.
9. Select Request Evidence.
   When an evidence request is already in the Work in Progress state, and a new evidence collection detail is added, then evidence request task is sent to the assignee immediately.
   The Evidence related list appears with the list of evidences and the person who is assigned the request receives an email notification to provide the requested evidence. Also, the state of the request changes to Work in Progress.