Common Menus for Work Programs and Checklists

Properties

Displays the name of the document and industry selection for the document. Select the industry for the document for authoring industry-specific content. Select the items to show for the user, such as showing the notes row and changes to the response types. For checklists, there are further additional options such as show / hide of some columns in the checklist.

Check for Updates

Compares the content in the master template document with the Content Library to ensure the latest procedures included in the document. The template initializes the update process according to selections made by the firm. Procedures set by the firm as "required" will always be updated and added to the document.

View Check for Updates Summary

Displays a page, in your web browser, that summarizes the results when Check for Updates has been performed.

Check for Based on Procedure Status

Enables author to view which procedures are based on another procedure. When changes are made to the base procedure, you can compare the procedures and make changes accordingly.

Display Highlight Options

Highlights procedures based on selected criteria. Highlights procedures display unique colors/outlines for updated procedures, inserted procedures or out of date procedures. See Managing the Content.
 

Risk

Display a submenu listing options for adding or imported identified risks. The available options are:

This menu item is available only if you have enabled the creation of new risks in the AO - General Options document in the master template.

New Control

Add a new identified control. This menu item is available only if you have enabled the creation of new controls in the AO - General Options document in the master template.
 

New Reportable Item

Add a new identified reportable item. This menu item is available only if you have enabled the creation of new reportable items in the AO - General Options document in the master template.
 

Lock Author Mode

Locks documents in the master template such that no content changes can be made into the content library. Lock Author Mode is a global option to lock menus in the master template such that procedures cannot be modified. Changes are still allowed at the engagement level by the users.

Lock User Procedure Customizations

Enables firm authors and users to lock customized procedures added to a specific document to prevent changes. The lock can be applied to existing procedures or to all procedure customization. If locked by the firm author, the time and firm author's initials are displayed at the top of the document and users require a password to unlock procedure customization in that document.

Configure Document Prerequisites

Options for author to specify document dependency. Authors define which documents must be signed off by which roles before the current document can be worked on. The document prerequisites will not be applied to the master template, and it will only be used when a new file is created based on the master file or files from the master file is brought into a file through Content Library.

Apply Document Prerequisites

Applies document prerequisites dependencies at the engagement level. Option is checked on by default.

Allocate procedures to groups

Display a dialog that enables you to allocate procedures in this checklist to groups defined in Working Papers. This menu item appears only when procedure allocation has been enabled in the AO - General options document in the master template.

Edit Procedure Action

Edit the action to be performed by the Optimiser when the engagement team responds to the procedure. The items that can be deleted by a procedure action are specified in the Optimiser section of the AO - General options document in the master template.

Modifiable

Enables editing of the procedure that the cursor is currently on. If you set a procedure that is not owned by the firm author to Modifiable, you will be asked whether you want to change ownership of the procedure. Changing ownership will create a copy of the procedure for the firm author to modify, and will delete any custom procedure action defined for that procedure.

Bold

Displays the procedure that the cursor is currently on in bold text. If you wish to set only parts of the procedure text to bold, change the procedure to Modifiable first.

Procedure Number

Show/hide procedure numbering for the procedure or sub procedure the cursor is currently on.

Procedure Guidance

Display guidance text for the particular procedure or sub procedure that the cursor is currently on. To modify the guidance, you must make the procedure Modifiable.

Insert New Reference

Add a reference to the procedure or sub procedure that the cursor is currently on. This menu option may not appear if the reference is turned off in the document properties.

Insert New Procedure from Content Library

Insert a procedure from the content library. Items that appear in the content library may be optional procedures.

Insert New Sub Procedure - 1st level

Insert a new procedure as a sub procedure of the procedure that the cursor is currently on. If you do not own the procedure to which you want to add this sub procedure, you will be asked whether you want to change the ownership of the procedure. Changing the ownership will create a copy of the procedure for you to modify. Sub procedures are limited to a maximum of 30.

Insert New Sub Procedure - 2nd level

Insert a new procedure as a 2nd level sub procedure of the sub procedure that the cursor is currently on. This menu item will not be available if the cursor is not on a 1st or 2nd level procedure. Sub procedures are limited to a maximum of 30.

Delete Procedures

Display a dialog to select one or more procedures to be deleted. Note that required procedures will not be listed, as they cannot be deleted and their sub-procedures not be deleted either. To delete required procedures, unselect the Required checkbox prior to deleting.

In this dialog, the procedures deleted will be deleted from the document only, not from the content library. To also delete procedures from the content library, use Delete Procedure.

Delete Procedure - XXX

Delete the procedure that your cursor is currently on. You can specify whether the procedure is to be deleted from the document only, or from both the document and the content library. Procedures owned by other authors cannot be removed from the content library.

Delete Sub Procedure - XXX

Delete the sub procedure that your cursor is currently on. You can specify whether the procedure is to be deleted from the document only, or from both the document and the content library. Procedures owned by other authors cannot be removed from the content library.

Sort Groupings

Sort the order of the groupings. To use this menu item, the cursor must be on a grouping title.

Sort Sub Groupings

Sort the order of the sub groupings. To use this menu item, the cursor must be on a sub grouping title.

Sort Procedures

Sort the order of the procedures. To use this menu item, the cursor must be on a procedure.

Sort Sub Procedures

Sort the order of the sub procedures. To use this menu item, the cursor must be on a sub procedure.

Risk Report

Insert/delete the risk report area. When included, the risk report information displays at the top of the work program. For more information on the risk report, see Risk Report.

Detailed Audit Response

Insert/delete the detailed audit response area. There are some optional layouts for this area included with the template and the firm can create/modify alternate layouts.

Insert List of Assertions

Insert/delete the financial statement assertion area. Note overall settings to display financial statement assertions are defined in firm settings.

Insert List of Objectives

Insert/delete the objectives area. Note overall settings to display financial statement assertions are defined in firm settings.

Edit Objectives

Edit the objectives area when the cursor is on the objectives area.

Edit Conclusion

Edit the conclusion area text.

Import Procedures

Import procedures from work program or checklist documents. Selecting this menu option opens the Import Procedure Dialog, in which users can specify the import source.

Insert New Procedure

Insert one or more procedures into the checklist. When you select Insert New Procedure, a dialog box appears that enables you to specify the number of procedures to insert. The New Procedure Dialog then appears, enabling you to specify the properties of the procedures.

When you insert multiple procedures, they will be given the same name by default. An index number, such as (2), is provided to distinguish one procedure from another. To change the name of a procedure, type the new name in the field in the Name column.

The inserted procedures are added below the procedure the cursor is on if they are in the same group/sub group. If the group is different or the cursor is not on a procedure, the procedure(s) will be added at the bottom of the group.

Set Procedure Availability

Display a dialog box that enables you to specify the procedures that are to be made available. The unselected items will not be seen by users when they are trying to insert from the content library.

Manage Groupings

Groups enable the author to keep procedures of similar types together. Selecting the Manage Groupings menu item displays the Manage Grouping dialog box, in which you can add, rename or remove groups.

Manage Sub Groupings

Sub groups enable the author to further organize grouped procedures. Selecting the Manage Sub Groupings menu item displays the Manage Grouping dialog box, in which you can add, rename or remove sub groups.

Procedure Properties

Edit the properties for the procedure that the cursor is currently on. Properties include the name of the procedure, industry, grouping, sub grouping, version number, and the procedure on which the current procedure is based, if any.

Insert All Procedures

Inserts all procedures from the content library.

Insert All Author Procedures

Inserts all firm-authored procedures from the content library.

Author's Action Report

Displays the Author's Action Report in your web browser. This report summarizes all of the procedure actions that you have defined. This menu item is visible only when deletion based on checklist responses is enabled in the Optimiser.

Reset Procedure Status

Clears the status indicators used in Procedure Highlighting. This is useful if the engagement team is creating a new client file based on the updated template and does not need to know what changes have been made to the template.

Content Library Path

Define the path of the location of the content library.

Display Completion Details

Display the completion details at the top of the document. Hiding the completion details does not keep them from being printed.

Display Document Guidance

Display detailed instructions on how to complete the document or authoritative guidance. The author can supply the desired instructions.

Display Headings

Display column headings at the top of the document.

Display Procedure Sign Off Below Procedures

Specify whether to display the procedure signoff area below the procedures or in a separate column.

Display Procedure Tags

Specify whether to display tags that have been added to procedures. This menu item appears only when procedure tagging has been enabled in the Optimiser.

Display Select Response Button

Display or hide the select response button.

Print Risk

Prints the risk report. This menu item appears only when the risk report is inserted at the top of the checklist.

Display Interactive Guidance

Display instructions that indicate the next step to take when working with this document. These instructions appear at the top of the document in a status bar located just below the function buttons. This menu item is enabled only if instructions exist for the current document status.

Print Authoritative Reference

Print authoritative references added by the author.

Print Firm Name in Footer

Prints the firm name in the footer, as defined in the firm settings, if the firm author has specified that the firm name is to be displayed.

Print Firm Logo in Footer

Prints the firm logo in the footer, as defined in the firm settings, if the firm author has specified that the firm logo is to be displayed.

Print Current Date/Time in Footer

Print the current date and time in the footer of each page of the document. The date and time format are as set in your Windows regional settings.

Print Client Path in Footer

Print the client path in the footer of each page of the document.

Highlight External Cells

Highlight all externally linked cells in the document. A report is opened in your web browser that displays each externally linked cell, along with the group, form, and ID of the CaseView database entry to which the cell is linked. This enables the firm author to easily track values that are written to the database and retained on an update or year-end close.

Import External Data

Imports external data from another file. A browse window will appear to select an applicable .ac file.

Reapply Styles

Change the document fonts to the character set in use on your computer. This makes it possible to type information in both English and one other language that uses non-Western characters.

Risk Report View

Specify the type of mini risk report to be displayed at the top of the checklist. Select Risks Identified to list all risks that have been identified in the checklist, or select Risks Addressed to list Entity level risks and risks addressed in the checklist.