From Trial Balance
to Signed Audit Report.
A complete step-by-step manual showing exactly how an audit travels through AuditPro Suite — from the moment a client hands you their trial balance, through the workpapers, AJEs, financial statements, and KAM, to the partner signing the Auditor's Report and locking the engagement file in the 7-year archive.
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Why this manual exists
An auditor friend recently asked: "How do I get from the client's trial balance to a signed audit report? I keep getting lost in the workpapers." Fair question. The audit workflow has 14 distinct phases, each with a specific purpose, several screens, and a regulatory standard behind it.
This manual walks every phase chronologically — same order you'd actually do them on a real engagement. Each page explains what to click, what to enter, what happens, and what regulator-standard the step satisfies. By the end of phase 13, you've issued a signed Auditor's Report and locked the engagement file for 7-year retention per ISA 230.
End-to-end ~45 minutes. Each phase page is ~3-4 minutes. You can read in any order, but if this is your first time, follow the numbered steps top-to-bottom.
Every job page now opens with a guided 8-phase navigator above the tabs (Acceptance → Plan → TB → Fieldwork → Workpapers/AJEs → FS/Reporting → Review → Issue & Lock). Phase 1 (Acceptance) tracks the engagement letter as the first artefact per ISA 210 — until it's finalised, the next-action button prompts you to generate it. New staff can follow the gold pill instead of memorising this manual on day one. → Read about the workflow strip.
The 14-phase audit roadmap
This is the chronological flow. Each card below is a chapter — click into any phase to see the full walkthrough with screen mock-ups, field-by-field guidance, and regulatory references.
Audit overview
Before you touch the system: what an audit is, the artefacts you'll produce, and the audit-firm vocabulary you need.
Engagement setup
Lead → Quote → Client → Job. Get the engagement letter signed, create the audit job in the system.
A-100 Planning workpaper
Open the planning workpaper. Set materiality. Document risk assessment. Assign the team. ISA 300.
Import the Trial Balance
Upload the client's TB CSV. The system validates Σ Debit = Σ Credit and indexes every account.
Auto-seed the workpapers
One click instantiates 12 workpapers (A-100 to L-100), 79 ISA-tagged procedures, 24 FS notes and the disclosure checklist.
Walk each workpaper
The core of the audit. For each of the 12 workpapers: read the lead schedule, tick procedures, attach evidence, raise review points.
Adjusting Journal Entries
For every misstatement found: post an AJE. The Adjusted TB recomputes immediately. All 12 workpapers refresh.
FS line mapping
One click applies the default IFRS mapping. Customise where needed. Now the system knows which TB row goes to which FS line.
Generate SFP, SPL, SCF, SOCIE
Four IFRS-compliant financial statements auto-generated from the Adjusted TB. Branded A4 PDFs.
FS notes & reconciliation
Draft the 24 IFRS-aligned notes. The system auto-checks each note's amount matches the Adjusted TB.
Disclosure compliance
Walk the 120-item IFRS disclosure checklist. Mark each as Disclosed / N/A / Pending.
Workpaper sign-off chain
Each workpaper goes through 5 stages: Preparer → Reviewer → Manager → Partner → EQCR. ISA 220 quality control.
Audit Completion check
Single readiness gate: workpapers signed + FS finalised + zero open review points. Green light or explicit blockers.
Draft the Auditor's Report
Pick the opinion type. Add KAM if listed. Going-concern paragraph. Set signing partners. ISA 700/705/706/701.
Sign + Issue + Lock + Archive
Engagement partner signs. EQCR signs. Issue. Lock the engagement file → SHA-256-verified ZIP, 7-year retention.
Companion manuals & references
How the data flows — the big picture
If you remember just one diagram, remember this. It's the journey every figure takes from the client's trial balance to the auditor's signature.
You import the client's TB. The system creates 12 workpapers + 79 procedures. You walk each workpaper, tick procedures, post AJEs for misstatements. The Adjusted TB and FS update live. You map TB → FS lines, generate SFP/SPL/SCF/SOCIE, draft the 24 notes, walk the 120 disclosure items, sign each workpaper through 5 stages, draft the Auditor's Report, partner signs, EQCR signs, you issue, and you lock — producing one tamper-proof ZIP file retained for 7 years.
Ready? Start at the overview.
The first chapter covers terminology and what artefacts you'll produce — most useful if you're newer to audits or to the system. If you already know all that, jump straight to Phase 0 · Engagement setup.