• 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

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 you lock user procedure customizations, Optimizer cannot customize the document unless you enable Allow Optimizer customizations in the dialog first.

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.

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