Create an engagement

Audit managers create engagements to manage audit information and collect entities, controls, and control tests that are relevant to the audit.

Before you begin

Role required: sn_audit.admin or sn_audit.manager

Note:

For more information on engagements, see Manage engagements.

About this task

To know more about how to define a control and control objective, see:

• Create a control
• Create a control objective

Procedure

1. Navigate to All > Audit > Engagements > Create New.
2. On the form, fill in the fields.

   Table 1. Engagement form

   Field	Description
   Number	A unique identification number.
   State	Scope Validate and plan Fieldwork Awaiting approval Follow up Closed
   Name	Name of the engagement.
   Type	Type of engagement. The choices are: None Internal Audit External Audit SOX Audit IT Audit Financial Audit Compliance Audit Certification Audit Regulatory Audit Operational Audit Continuous Audit Vendor Audit Customer Audit Store Audit Quality Audit Project Audit
   Percent complete	Number that represents the percentage of the engagement that has been completed.
   Assigned to	User assigned to the engagement.
   Auditors	Auditors were assigned to the engagement.
   Approvers	Approvers assigned to the engagement.
   Description	General description of the engagement.
   Objectives	Stated objectives of the engagement.
   Schedule
   Engagement planned start	Estimated start date of the engagement.
   Engagement starts	Choice to automatically determine the start date of the engagement. The choices are: Scope Validate Fieldwork
   Engagement actually start	Actual date the engagement begins.
   Engagement planned end	Estimated end date of the engagement.
   Engagement ends	Choice to automatically determine the start date of the engagement. The choices are: Follow Up Closed
   Engagement actual end	The actual date that the engagement ends.
   Fieldwork planned start	Estimated start date of the fieldwork.
   Fieldwork planned end	Planned end date that was originally set in the engagement. Note: This field sets the value as one day plus the planned start date for fieldwork by default.
   Fieldwork planned duration	Number of days and hours planned for fieldwork. The duration and planned start date of fieldwork are used to calculate the planned end date. If audit tasks are defined, this field is populated with the longest planned duration from the audit tasks.
   Fieldwork actual start	Actual start date of the fieldwork. If audit tasks are defined, this field is populated with the earliest actual start date from the audit tasks.
   Fieldwork actual end	Actual end date of the fieldwork. If audit tasks are defined, this field is populated with the latest actual end date from the audit tasks.
   Fieldwork actual duration	Duration of fieldwork start date and end date.
   Results
   Result	Satisfactory Adequate Inadequate
   Opinion	Justification for the selected result.
   Report
   Knowledge base	Knowledge base to be used.
   Report template	Template to be used to generate the knowledge base article reporting the engagement results.
   KB article	Recently generated knowledge base article containing the engagement results
   Activity
   Additional comments	Customer-viewable comments.
   Work notes	Comments that are viewable by the admin audit manager.
   Confidentiality
   Confidential	Option to enable confidentiality of the record. Only the assigned users or groups of users can access the record. For more information on the confidential option, see Confidentiality flag for audit and compliance records.

3. Select Submit.