Risk Assessment
Turn complex risks into clear insights with a unified, data-driven assessment process.
Gain full visibility and control over every potential risk in your audit workflow.
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Before Your AURA Ignites...
❌ Risk assessments scattered across multiple files and spreadsheets.
❌ Materiality, analytical procedures, and entity understanding handled separately — hard to trace connections.
❌ Audit plans built manually, often missing the bigger picture.
❌ No clear linkage between risks at the financial statement and account levels.
After Your AURA Lights!
💫 Every stage — from data gathering to risk documentation — flows seamlessly in one connected platform.
💫 Materiality, analysis, and risk evaluations stay synchronized automatically.
💫 Auditors gain a full view of how each risk affects the audit, from entity to account.
💫 Audit planning becomes faster, structured, and driven by data-backed insights.
Seeing the Whole Picture Before You Begin
With AURA’s Risk Assessment features, your audit starts from true understanding - connecting data, materiality, analysis, and risk evaluation into one seamless flow.
It’s not just about identifying risks; it’s about seeing how every detail connects to the bigger picture.
Client Assistance Package
Before any audit work begins, clarity matters.
This part of AURA helps auditors organize and manage all client information requests in one place - ensuring every document, record, and piece of evidence is received completely and on time.
It’s the foundation of an efficient audit, built on communication that’s structured and traceable.
Journal Entry Testing
Every number tells a story - some just need a closer look.
This part of AURA guides auditors through testing journal entries to uncover unusual or high-risk transactions.
By identifying anomalies early, the team gains confidence that every recorded event truly reflects what happened.
Data Collection
Strong audits start with solid evidence.
This part of AURA streamlines the process of gathering and verifying data from multiple sources - ensuring that every piece collected is valid, relevant, and ready for deeper analysis.
Because meaningful insights begin with trustworthy information.
Trial Balance
Every audit begins with balance.
This part of AURA records the client’s opening balances — forming the backbone of the audit process.
Here, auditors gain a clear foundation for planning, testing, and understanding the story behind each number.
CoA And Mapping
Structure brings clarity.
This part of AURA allows auditors to upload the client’s Chart of Accounts and map each account to standardized audit classifications.
With every account properly aligned, analysis becomes consistent, accurate, and easy to navigate — no matter how complex the client’s books are.
Balance Amount
Numbers mean little without precision.
This part of AURA helps auditors upload and verify the balance of every client account, ensuring data integrity before deeper testing begins.
It’s where figures become reliable, and reliability becomes the starting point of assurance.
Preliminary Materiality
Every audit starts with a boundary; a sense of what truly matters.
This part of AURA helps auditors define that boundary early on by calculating initial materiality levels based on key financial indicators such as profit, revenue, and total assets. It ensures the audit plan remains focused, balanced, and aligned with professional judgment from the very beginning.
Materiality Computation
Numbers tell a story, but judgment gives it meaning.
This worksheet captures the detailed computation of materiality; blending quantitative measures with the auditor’s professional reasoning. Each calculation and rationale is transparently documented, reinforcing the credibility behind audit decisions and conclusions.
Specific Materiality
Some areas demand sharper attention.
This feature allows auditors to set tailored materiality thresholds for accounts or segments with higher risk or complexity. By focusing on where it matters most, AURA helps auditors ensure that no significant issue goes unnoticed; supporting a more precise, risk-driven audit.
Preliminary Analytical Procedure
Every number has a story; patterns, shifts, and signals waiting to be read.
This part of AURA helps auditors perform an early analysis of financial data to spot anomalies and trends that stand out. By understanding the client’s financial landscape from the start, auditors can design audit procedures that are more focused and insightful.
Analytic Procedures - Vertical & Horizontal Analysis
Perspective brings clarity.
Through vertical and horizontal comparisons, this worksheet reveals how figures move and relate across time and structure. It enables auditors to identify fluctuations and unusual relationships, guiding them toward areas that deserve closer examination.
Preliminary Analytical Procedures - Ratio Analysis
Ratios turn data into direction.
This feature allows auditors to assess key financial ratios; liquidity, profitability, and solvency; to highlight where risks may lie. The insights gained from this analysis help shape audit priorities, ensuring resources are directed where they matter most.
Understanding of The Entity & It's Environment
To see clearly, you must first understand deeply.
This part of AURA helps auditors build a full picture of the client; their operations, industry, and environment. By connecting every element of how the entity works, auditors can recognize where significant risks may emerge and plan accordingly
General Information & Legal Aspect
Every audit begins with knowing the foundation.
This worksheet captures essential details about the client’s identity; from legal form to business licenses and regulatory standing. It ensures that every audit step is grounded in an accurate and compliant legal context.
Structure Organization & Responsibilities
Behind every number lies a structure of people and decisions.
This feature documents how the organization is built; its hierarchy, authority lines, and key responsibilities. Understanding this structure helps auditors trace accountability and identify areas where conflicts of interest might arise.
Business Activity - Main Business Activity Processes
Understanding how value is created means understanding how risk flows.
This worksheet maps the client’s key operational processes, internal controls, and potential risk points. With this clarity, auditors can design a truly risk-based audit that focuses on what matters most.
Business Activity - Business Cycle Summaries
Every cycle tells a part of the story.
From revenue to purchasing to payroll, this worksheet summarizes the major business cycles of the client. It helps auditors see how transactions move through the system; revealing key control points and ensuring a complete understanding of operations.
Understanding of Relevant Regulations
Compliance is the language of integrity.
This worksheet compiles the laws and regulations that shape the client’s operations; from tax rules to industry-specific standards. It helps auditors identify areas of legal exposure and evaluate how well the client adheres to regulatory expectations.
Understanding of Business Environments
Context shapes every financial decision.
Here, auditors analyze the broader economic, industry, and regulatory environment in which the client operates. This understanding provides perspective; revealing external factors that could influence financial results or increase risk.
Going Concern Analysis
Sustainability speaks louder than profit.
This worksheet helps auditors assess the client’s ability to continue operating into the foreseeable future. By reviewing financial health, management plans, and post–balance sheet events, it ensures that going concern considerations are addressed with both care and judgment.
Understanding of Preparation of Financial Statement
Clarity begins with process.
This worksheet documents how the client prepares its financial statements; from accounting policies to record-keeping systems. It ensures transparency, accuracy, and alignment with generally accepted accounting principles.
Fraud Factor Analysis
Trust is verified through vigilance.
This part of AURA guides auditors in identifying potential fraud risk factors; pressures, opportunities, and rationalizations that may lead to misconduct. It strengthens audit planning and helps safeguard the integrity of financial reporting.
Inherent Risk
Some risks are built into the nature of what we do.
This part of AURA helps auditors identify and assess risks that exist even before controls are considered. By understanding where vulnerability naturally lies, auditors can design audit procedures with precision and purpose.
Inherent Risk - Financial Statement Level
Every statement carries its own set of challenges.
This worksheet helps auditors evaluate inherent risk at the overall financial statement level; taking into account factors like economic volatility, management judgment, and business complexity. The result is a balanced view of how external and internal forces may shape audit risk.
Inherent Risk - Account Level
The closer you look, the clearer the risk becomes.
This feature focuses on assessing inherent risk at the individual account level. Auditors analyze transaction complexity, estimation uncertainty, and susceptibility to misstatement; all before considering controls. It ensures that each account is reviewed with the attention it truly deserves.
Control Risk - Entity Level
A strong foundation begins with integrity.
This part of AURA helps auditors evaluate control risk at the entity level; examining the company’s overall control environment, governance, and ethical culture. It provides insight into how leadership tone and values shape the reliability of financial reporting.
General Control Evaluations
Structure defines trust.
This worksheet documents how general controls operate across the organization, from IT systems and financial policies to management oversight. By understanding the strength of these foundations, auditors can determine how much reliance can be placed on the client’s internal control system.
IT Control Evaluations
In a digital world, control begins with data.
This feature allows auditors to evaluate IT-related controls; including data security, access management, and system reliability. It helps ensure that electronic information used in the audit can be trusted, consistent, and secure.
Control Risk - Cycle Level
Each process carries its own rhythm of control.
This worksheet guides auditors in assessing control risk across major business cycles; such as revenue, purchasing, or payroll. It evaluates how effectively existing controls prevent or detect misstatements, ensuring that each cycle operates with accountability and precision.
Significant Account
Where impact is greatest, assurance must be strongest.
This worksheet focuses on understanding and evaluating controls over significant accounts. By identifying weaknesses and measuring control effectiveness, auditors can ensure that the most critical areas of the financial statements are protected by sound and reliable systems.
ROMM
Understanding risk means seeing both error and intent.
This part of AURA helps auditors identify and document risks of material misstatement; whether arising from error or fraud; across financial statement and account levels. Through this analysis, auditors can determine the most appropriate and focused audit responses.
ROMM - Financial Level
Perspective defines priority.
This worksheet guides auditors in assessing the overall risk of material misstatement at the financial statement level. By considering business conditions, internal controls, and insights from prior audits, it helps determine which areas deserve the highest level of attention.
ROMM - Account Level
Every number tells its own story of risk.
This worksheet supports auditors in evaluating material misstatement risk at the account level. Based on preliminary testing, account characteristics, and control effectiveness, it ensures that each account is analyzed with accuracy and professional judgment.
Audit Planning Memorandum
A plan is more than a path; it’s the shape of understanding.
This part of AURA brings together the auditor’s insights into one cohesive strategy. It outlines objectives, testing approaches, team responsibilities, and key risk areas; forming a clear direction for the audit ahead.
By turning analysis into action, this document becomes the bridge between assessment and execution; ensuring every step that follows is purposeful and aligned.
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