Pre-Engagement
Begin every audit with calm confidence.
AURA prepares your team for clarity - aligning people, documents, and intentions before the audit begins. Because every strong engagement starts with understanding.
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Before Your AURA Ignites...
❌ Endless follow-ups to complete client information and obtain initial documents.
❌ Inconsistent acceptance reviews and independence checks that slow down engagement.
❌ Team communication scattered across emails, chats, and spreadsheets.
After Your AURA Lights!
💫 One seamless flow - from client acceptance to documentation, all in one place.
💫 Every review step structured, every decision traceable.
💫 Collaboration becomes natural; the team moves in sync from the very first phase.
The Foundation of Every Trusted Audit
Before analysis, before numbers—there’s understanding. AURA’s Pre-Engagement features bring structure to the unseen moments of preparation, transforming complexity into clarity and intuition into confidence.
Acceptance and Continuance of Client Relationship Analysis
Before any engagement begins, decisions matter.
This part of AURA helps the firm evaluate whether a client relationship should be accepted or continued - combining ethical considerations, independence checks, and business judgment into one structured, transparent process.
Previous Financial Issues
Understanding the past brings clarity to the present.
Here, auditors review how management handled prior financial statements, compliance matters, and ethical issues - giving insight into the reliability of their reporting before the new engagement starts.
Management Integrity
Trust is built on character.
This section focuses on evaluating management’s integrity, transparency, and accountability. It helps the team see beyond the numbers - assessing whether leadership upholds the principles that make an audit meaningful.
Money Laundering Issues
Risk hides in complexity.
Through this worksheet, auditors assess potential money-laundering exposure by analyzing ownership structures, financial flows, and internal safeguards. AURA helps frame these findings with clarity, guiding where deeper attention is needed.
Customer Principles
Knowing your client means more than identification.
This stage applies the Know Your Customer (KYC) principles - understanding the client’s background, purpose, and business ethics. It builds a balanced view of both opportunity and risk before the audit begins.
Competency, Availability, and Independency of Assignment Team
Every strong audit begins with the right people.
AURA ensures each team member’s competence, time availability, and independence are properly assessed. The process promotes confidence - that every task will be handled with skill and objectivity.
Communication with Previous Auditor
Continuity brings perspective.
This documentation records formal communication with the prior auditor, offering valuable context about past engagements and key issues. It helps the new audit team step in with awareness, not assumptions.
Audit Working Plan
A structured start for smarter audits.
Define your strategy, scope, and resources with precision. This feature ensures every audit begins with clarity and continues with efficiency.
Engagement Letter
Every agreement deserves assurance.
This checklist ensures every essential element of your engagement letter is complete — from management approvals to procedural documentation. It serves as an internal quality control tool for a thorough and compliant audit process.
Assignment Letter
Where clarity meets commitment.
This document formalizes the audit engagement, defining its scope, objectives, and responsibilities. It stands as the legal and administrative foundation that keeps both parties aligned throughout the audit.
Independency Statement
Integrity begins with objectivity.
This working paper confirms the auditor’s independence before any engagement begins. It documents potential conflicts and relationships, ensuring ethical conduct and professional impartiality in every audit.
Team Communication – Pre-Engagement
Alignment begins with understanding.
This working paper records every internal discussion before the audit begins — from task assignments to schedules and key risk briefings. It ensures every team member moves in sync, sharing the same clarity and direction from day one.
Understanding of The Entity & It's Environment
This worksheet contains the auditor’s comprehensive understanding of the entity, its operating environment, and the industry in which the client operates. This information helps the auditor identify significant risks that may affect the financial statements.
General Information & Legal Aspect
This worksheet documents the client’s general and legal information, including the legal entity type, business licenses, and regulatory compliance. This information is essential for understanding the legal context of the audit.
Structure Organization & Responsibilities
This worksheet documents the client’s organizational structure along with the distribution of responsibilities and authorities. This information is important for the auditor to understand reporting lines and identify potential conflicts of interest within the organization.
Business Activity - Main Business Activity Processes
This worksheet describes the key processes in the client’s business operations. The auditor identifies the stages of operational activities, the internal control systems implemented, and potential risk points. This document serves as the basis for risk-based audit planning.
Business Activity - Business Cycle Summaries
This worksheet presents a summary of each of the client’s key business cycles, such as revenue, purchasing, and payroll. The auditor uses this information to understand the transaction flow and determine the key control points that need to be tested during the audit process.
Understanding of Relevant Regulations
This worksheet contains the auditor’s summary and understanding of laws and regulations relevant to the client’s activities. The auditor assesses compliance with legal, tax, and industry regulatory requirements. This document helps identify potential legal violations that may have a significant impact.
Understanding of Business Environments
This worksheet contains an analysis of the business environment in which the client operates. The auditor evaluates economic, industry, and regulatory factors that may affect the financial statements. This understanding helps the auditor determine key risk areas and develop appropriate audit strategies.
Going Concern Analysis
This worksheet is used to evaluate the client’s ability to maintain business continuity. The auditor reviews financial ratios, management plans, and events after the balance sheet date to assess whether there is any significant doubt about the entity’s going concern status.
Understanding of Preparation of Financial Statement
This worksheet explains the process of financial statement preparation by the client. The auditor evaluates the accounting policies applied and the recording systems used to ensure compliance with generally accepted accounting standards.
Fraud Factor Analysis
This worksheet serves to identify potential fraud risk factors within the entity. The auditor assesses the pressures, opportunities, and rationalizations that could lead to fraudulent actions. This document helps in planning more effective audit procedures to detect potential fraud.
Inherent Risk
This worksheet contains an assessment of inherent risk arising from the nature of certain transactions or accounts. The auditor uses the results of this analysis to determine the intensity of audit procedures.
Inherent Risk - Financial Statement Level
This worksheet is used to assess inherent risk at the financial statement level. The auditor considers both external and internal factors that may increase the risk of misstatement, including economic conditions and the complexity of business transactions.
Inherent Risk - Account Level
This worksheet serves to assess inherent risk at the account level within the financial statements. The auditor analyzes factors such as transaction complexity, accounting estimates, and the likelihood of material misstatement without considering the client’s internal controls.
Control Risk - Entity Level
This worksheet is used to evaluate control risk at the entity level. The auditor assesses the effectiveness of the control environment and the company’s ethical culture in supporting the integrity of the financial statements.
General Control Evaluations
This worksheet documents the evaluation of the organization’s general controls, including IT systems, financial policies, and management oversight processes. The results of this evaluation determine the extent to which the auditor can rely on internal controls during the audit.
IT Control Evaluations
This worksheet records the auditor’s evaluation of information technology controls, including data security, user access, and system reliability. The results are used to assess the extent to which the auditor can rely on the client’s electronic data.
Control Risk - Cycle Level
This worksheet is used to assess control risk at the business cycle level, such as the revenue or purchasing cycle. The auditor evaluates the extent to which the implemented controls can prevent or detect material misstatements.
Significant Account
This worksheet documents the auditor’s understanding and evaluation of internal controls over significant accounts. The auditor identifies control system weaknesses and assesses their effectiveness in preventing or detecting material misstatements.
ROMM
This worksheet records the risk of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud, at both the financial statement and account levels. The auditor analyzes the risk factors and determines appropriate audit responses.
ROMM - Financial Level
This worksheet records the assessment of the Risk of Material Misstatement (RMM) at the overall financial statement level. The auditor considers internal controls, business conditions, and results from prior audits to determine priority audit areas.
ROMM - Account Level
This worksheet records the assessment of the risk of material misstatement at the account level. The auditor conducts the analysis based on preliminary testing results, account characteristics, and the effectiveness of existing controls.
Audit Planning Memorandum
This worksheet contains a summary of the audit strategy designed based on the auditor’s initial understanding of the client. The document includes audit objectives, testing approaches, team assignments, and key risk areas that will be the focus of the examination.
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