AuditDesktop enables you to complete engagements, once you have finished working on them. In this way, all working papers can be locked so as to prevent others from making changes to them.
Note
Only the engagement's Team leader has rights to complete an audit engagement.
To complete an engagement:
1. Open the Home tab and click the All button.
2. From the list of engagements, select the engagement and click 
Complete.
3. In the window that opens, mark which subsequent actions will be performed.
4. Once you are ready, click 
Complete.
Settings
- Lock current engagement – the engagement will be locked and document editing will not be allowed. By default, completed engagements are not visible in the Select engagement window. To visualise them, click the
Completed button located in the toolbar at the bottom of the window. - Complete documents – all uncompleted documents will be marked as Complete. The date of completion will be recorded in the Creation date field of all documents set up as templates. The Team leader will be displayed as the user who completed the documents. Creation date will be set to current date; if you are using the network version, the date will be the server's. Document completion is not mandatory in order to mark an engagement as complete.
- Restore working paper Active state – you can restore the Active status of working papers in subsequent engagement.
- Creating subsequent engagement – a new engagement will be created with the following conditions:
- Copied method of current engagement
- Transferred issues from previous engagement to next one
- Transferred all documents and attached files marked as Copy for next engagement
- Set the previous auditor's name as the name of current one (the name selected can be either the name of the organisation or the name of the Team leader)
- Subsequent engagement type: Initial, Subsequent, Intermediate, Follow-up, or Other
- Transfer the team and their permission levels to the newly created engagement
- Transfer final statements and trial balance as previous
Note
If the Transfer team and permission levels option is left unmarked, you will have to select the team members for the newly created engagement and define their permission levels. Otherwise, you will not be able to work on the engagement.
When loading Previous trial balance in Initial engagement, you can use Control TB or Final TB, depending on the accounting settings of the engagement.
Advanced
Options
Here you can select the data that will be transferred when creating a subsequent engagement. If you mark an option, its data will be transferred, whereas if you unmark it, the data will be skipped.
To save time, you can use these two buttons:
- All – mark all options
- None – unmark all options
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Attached files | Copies all files attached to working papers, questions, or sections, which are marked as ''For next engagement''. |
| Adjustments | All adjustments and their entries. |
| Chart of accounts | Entered chart of accounts. It affects both the trial balance and the errors in accounts. |
| Parameters: Materiality | Determined engagement materiality. |
| Documents: Findings and recommendations | Findings and recommendations entered in the working papers. |
| Documents: Conclusions | Conclusions entered in the working papers. |
| Documents: Questions | Entered questions for the client, team, from a previous or subsequent engagement. |
| Documents: Other information | Entered other information (comments, applied procedures, etc.). |
| Documents: Lead schedule data | Data entered in the lead schedule when using spreadsheet |
| Checklist: Answers and notes | Answers and attached notes in checklists. |
| Plan: Tasks | Tasks associated with an engagement. |
| Statements: Transaction log | Transaction log and its samples (depends on the Samples option). |
| Statements: VAT logs | Purchase and Sale logs, Documents, as well as samples (depends on the Samples option). |
| Statements: Trial balance | Entered trial balances. |
| Statements: Statement of financial position | Entered statement of financial position (initial and final). |
| Statements: Income statement | Entered income statement (initial and final). |
| Statements: Samples | Statement samples. |
| Risks: Statement analysis | Selected material items. |
Risks: Risk register | Identified risks. |
| Risks: Control activities | Entered control activities. |
Planned engagements
AuditDesktop can complete an engagement selected by the user, by transferring all data into an already planned engagement (See Create an Audit Engagement). All settings in the Settings tab apply to Planned engagements as well.
Once you mark the Use planned engagement as subsequent option, a list of all planned engagements created for the specific client will be displayed.
Note
The Planned engagements window displays only the planned engagements created for a specific client. Planned engagements created for other clients will not be displayed.