• Authoring Work Programs and Checklists
  • Financial Statement Assertions
  • Areas - Conclusions
  • Authoring Work Programs - Detailed Audit Response
  • Authoritative References
  • Authoring Work Programs - Creating Conditional Conclusions
  • Document Guidance
  • Adding Procedure Guidance
  • Editing Procedures
  • Locking
  • Lock User Procedure Customizations
  • Objectives
  • Tags
  • Work Programs - Author
  • Document Properties
  • Checklist Columns
  • Conditional Conclusions
  • Work Program Columns
  • Work Program Document Properties
  • Adding Authoritative References
  • Adding New Sub Procedures to Authored Procedures
  • Adding Procedures to a Grouping or Sub Grouping
  • Adding Tags to Procedures
  • Allocating procedures to groups
  • Authoring New Procedures
  • Creating New Checklists
  • Creating New Work Programs
  • Edit Procedure Actions
  • Edit Procedure Conditions
  • Modifying Existing Procedures
  • Filtering Procedures
  • Importing procedures from a work program or checklist
  • Inserting and deleting a custom Detailed Audit Response
  • Locking Author Mode
  • Locking user procedure customizations
  • Selecting Audit Responses to Make Available
  • Setting Procedure Availability

Document Properties

Each checklist has the following properties that the author can define:

General Tab

Property	Description
Name	The document name, which appears at the top of the document. It can also be changed in the Headings Extended Description for CaseView in the Document Properties dialog in the Working Papers Document Manager. To insert a line break to create multiple lines, use Shift-Enter.
Structure Version	This field is used for version tracking for updates.

Show Column

Property	Description
Procedure Sign-off	Select this check box to require the user to enter initials and date beside the procedure when completed.
Reference	Select this check box to include the reference column. The reference column allows cross-references to be added by the user and the related drill-down to the document referenced.

Show Row

Property	Description
Notes	Select this check box to include the notes row. The notes row provides an input area where users can type text.

Heading

Property	Description
Procedure	The text of the column heading for the procedures.
Result	The text of the column heading for the results.
Conclusion	The text of the column heading for the conclusion.

Other

Property	Description
Response Type	The response type for the Result column. Select the required format from the drop-down list: Work program responses: Display the Procedure Response panel, which lists the responses defined in the Completion Responses area of the AO - General Options document. Select check boxes to specify the responses that are to be made available to the user that is completing this checklist. User defined: Displays a text entry field where you can define up to 10 responses separated by commas. Select Automatically sign off procedure to add the date and users' initials when the response is made. Input type: Create an input area for the response. Date type: Create a drop-down calendar where the user completing the procedure can select a calendar date. Select Automatically sign off procedure to add the date and users' initials when the response is made.
Conclusion Area	The author specifies the conclusion options. Select the required option from the drop down list: Do not use - no conclusion area is included. Conclusion & Sign-off - a text area for a conclusion and a sign-off area are included. Sign-off Only - only the sign-off area is included. Conclusion Only - only the text area for a conclusion is included.

Form Identification (Footer)

In the Form Identification (Footer) section, you can specify the footer that will appear on this document. The information entered in the three description fields is joined together to make a single footer. If information exists in the fields, it has been specified in the AO - General Options document for the firm. This footer can still be modified for the current document, replacing the footer specified in the general options.

Procedure Response

When Work Program Responses is selected as the Response Type, select from a list of work program responses that are to be made available to the user that is completing this checklist.

Additional Details Tab

Property	Description
Type	The Document Type is used to group work programs and checklists for display in the Work program/checklist progress report. For example, if you set the type as Field Work, all work programs/checklists tagged with this type will appear together in the progress report.
Topic	Organize the presentation of the progress report by providing a topic. For example, adding a topic of Current Assets would group work programs/checklists with this topic together in the progress report.
Reference	The Reference and URL fields provide a link to guidance that may be useful when completing a document. The Reference field provides the text of the link.
URL	The Reference and URL fields provide a link to guidance that may be useful when completing a document. The URL field provides the URL for the link.
Supported Industries	Select the industries specific to the program when creating and showing industry-specific content. For any additional industries selected, all available required industry-specific procedures will be added to your current checklist. For any industries removed, any industry-specific procedures associated with the removed industry will be deleted from your current document. Note that the contents will be available in the content library when the industry is re-selected. Click Select All to select all industries, and Unselect All to unselect all industries. These may be useful for authors who would like all supported industries available when creating industry-specific procedures.
Document uses only industry-specific procedures	Select this check box when only procedures related to the industry selected are to be included in the checklist. Any procedures not associated with any industry or associated with industries that are not selected will be removed from the document. Authors can use this tool to create industry-specific checklists. When the checklist is opened, the icon appears to the left of the document number.

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