AI for Auditors

Auditor

Examines financial records, tests controls, verifies compliance, documents findings, and prepares audit reports with recommendations for corrections.

What should stay human.

Keep and amplify

Plan the audit with the client and agree the risky areas

Test samples of transactions and balances against the records

Prepare audit workpapers and document findings

Automate

Track statutory reporting deadlines and fieldwork dates

Log time against the engagement

Tasks, by type of work.

Each task has an experience tag (CX, SX or BX), a verdict, and example agents that often help with this kind of work. Agent suggestions come from our editorial scores, not vendor claims.

Inbox

Request confirmations, reports and missing evidence from the client

Chasing the standard request list is routine. The auditor decides what else is needed.

CX · Customer experience Amplify

Example agents

Bookings & calendar

Track statutory reporting deadlines and fieldwork dates

Due dates can be diarised and reminded automatically.

BX · Business experience Automate

Example agents

Spreadsheets & data

Test samples of transactions and balances against the records

An agent can select samples and match many of the clear items. The auditor investigates exceptions and stands behind the testing.

BX · Business experience Amplify

Example agents

Log time against the engagement

Time can be prefilled from the calendar and file activity.

BX · Business experience Automate

Example agents

Documents

Prepare audit workpapers and document findings

An agent can assemble evidence into a workpaper. The auditor writes the conclusion.

BX · Business experience Amplify

Draft the audit report and management letter

An agent can draft from the workpapers. The auditor forms the opinion and the wording.

BX · Business experience Amplify

Research

Check the relevant accounting standards and regulatory requirements

An agent can find and summarise the current rules. Applying them to this entity is the auditor's judgement.

BX · Business experience Amplify

Example agents

Customer chat

Plan the audit with the client and agree the risky areas

Professional scepticism and a feel for where things go wrong start with a conversation.

CX · Customer experience Keep human

Discuss significant findings and adjustments with management

This is a judgement-heavy, often difficult conversation. It stays human.

CX · Customer experience Keep human

Sign the audit opinion

This carries professional responsibility. Only the auditor can sign.

CX · Customer experience Keep human

Time freed, and where it goes.

Work an agent can take on

What comes off the desk.

  • Track statutory reporting deadlines and fieldwork dates
  • Log time against the engagement

Where those hours should go

Back into people, and the business.

  • CX — Plan the audit with the client and agree the risky areas
  • CX — Request confirmations, reports and missing evidence from the client
  • CX — Discuss significant findings and adjustments with management
  • CX — Sign the audit opinion
  • SX — Staff experience: more time for the work that needs a person
  • BX — Test samples of transactions and balances against the records
  • BX — Prepare audit workpapers and document findings
  • BX — Check the relevant accounting standards and regulatory requirements
  • BX — Draft the audit report and management letter

Seen at

Business types where this role often appears, with a note on how it shows up there.

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