• Authoring Work Programs and Checklists
  • About Authoring Work Programs and Checklists
  • Creating New Work Programs
  • Work Program Columns
  • Work Program Document Properties
  • Creating New Checklists
  • Checklist Columns
  • Checklist Document Properties
  • Importing procedures from a work program or checklist
  • Authoring New Procedures
  • Adding New Sub Procedures to Authored Procedures
  • Adding Procedures to a Grouping or Sub Grouping
  • Allocating Procedures to Groups
  • About Procedure Availability
  • Selecting Procedures to Make Available
  • Detailed Audit Response
  • Selecting Audit Responses to Make Available
  • Tags
  • Adding Tags to Procedures
  • Authoritative References
  • Adding Authoritative References
  • Procedure Guidance
  • Adding Guidance to a Procedure
  • Conclusions Area
  • Conditional Conclusions
  • About Conditional Conclusions
  • Objectives
  • Financial Statement Assertions
  • Lock User Procedure Customizations
  • Locking user procedure customizations
  • Locking Author Mode

Lock User Procedure Customizations

Locking user procedure customizations prevents accidental and unauthorized modifications to work program and checklist procedures at the engagement client file level. Each work program or checklist document must be locked independently. This functionality can be used, for example, to ensure that the engagement team completing the document does not modify the original procedures and completes the document with the authored content as is. Note that locking procedure customizations will not have any effect on authoring in the master template.

When user procedure customizations have been locked, the Optimiser does not delete procedures when the work program or checklist is opened, even if the procedure threshold is above the overall assessed risk.

If user procedure customizations are locked by the engagement team, the lock is automatically removed after year end close has been performed. User procedure customizations that have been created by the firm author are retained after year end close.

The locked state of the document is indicated by the unlocked or locked icon to the left of the document name. Hovering over the icon displays a tooltip indicating the lock state, while clicking on the icon launches the feature.

Note:

• Lock User Procedure Customizations locks only the document you are currently in. The content author/engagement must manually lock each document individually.
• When the content author locks user procedure customizations in the master template, the content author can still make modifications in author mode.

• For firms using the Working Papers Protection feature, the Lock User Procedure Customization feature requires the user to belong to a group with a CaseView Access Level of 6 or higher.

  For more detailed information on protection, users, and groups in Working Papers, refer to the Working Papers help topic Users and Groups dialog.

This online help system applies to all CaseWare Audit, Review, and Compilation products. Not all features are available in all products.