Web-based Help for Auditors
Source: AICPA CPA Insider
The following includes excerpts, reproduced with permission, from an article by Brian Fox.
As a preferred provider of online audit confirmations for AICPA Trusted Business Advisor Solutions, Confirmation.com can help you improve audit efficiency this busy season in the following 10 ways:
1. Queue Audit Confirmations for a Future Date
Shift Busy Season work into a more flexible period like the fourth quarter by queuing December 31st confirmations now!
2. Consolidate All Audit Confirmation Procedures to a Single Platform
Confirmation.com provides a FREE Out-of-Network service that allows you to send electronic confirmation requests to any responder you choose.
3. Use Electronic Confirmations for Any Type of Audit Confirmation
Confirmation.com can be used for AR, AP, investments, lines of credit, derivatives, commercial real estate, mortgage debt and more!
4. Integrate Into Auditing Software
CaseWare Working Papers, CCH's ProSystem® and Thomson Reuters' Engagement CS™ each integrate with Confirmation.com.
5. Collaborate With Audit Team
Confirmation.com allows a team to collaborate on audit confirmation requests without a data collision issue.
6. Organize Client List
Organize your client list so that only your active clients display on your dashboard.
7. Client Transfer
Transferring your clients from the person who performed confirmations last year to the person performing them this year will save your team lots of time!
8. Single Reports
Once you receive all of the client's confirmation responses, consolidate each confirmation type into a single downloadable report.
9. Simplify Re-confirmation Requests
Re-confirmations are easily sent without having to initiate a new one.
10. Quick Responses
Stop chasing paper and get confirmation responses in 24 to 48 hours* instead of four to six weeks.
Get a jump start this audit season, register today.
* With In-Network responders
Read the complete article, "Ten Tips to Improve Audit Efficiency During Busy Season."
From AICPA CPA Insider, November 15, 2010, www.CPA2biz.com.