Complete AI Training
Sign inGet my AI kit

Your job's AI kit

Get your AI kit

Tell us who you are and what you do. We show you your kit right away and email you the link: skills, prompts, AI agents, MCP servers and courses for your job.

500+ jobs ready, and we make a kit for any other job. No payment needed to look.

Share

AI agent for auditors

Audit Finding Write-up Agent

Consistent, evidence-backed audit findings ready for the report

Audit Finding Write-up Agent: what goes in, what the agent does and what you get

What it does

Audit findings must be clear, backed by evidence and consistent, and writing them well takes time at the end of fieldwork. This agent takes the test results and evidence for each tested control and drafts each finding in your standard structure: condition, criteria, cause, effect and recommendation. It checks that every element is supported by evidence in the workpapers. Where the cause is not established or evidence is thin, it flags the finding for more work instead of overstating it. It looks for compensating controls in the evidence and then checks the rating against your rating rules. It drafts the request for a management response. You approve findings before they go to the client. Edge case: a failed control with a working compensating control is rated on the real remaining risk, not only the failed test.

How it works

Follow the arrows from top to bottom. The orange dashed arrow is the loop: when a check fails, the agent goes back and tries again.

Start and resultWhat it doesA check on its own workWaits for your OKGoes back and retries
Yes, continueYes, continueApprovedNoNo 1 STARTS WHEN Control testing complete 2 USES A TOOL Read test results and workpaper evidence 3 DOES Draft the finding with condition, criteria, cause,effect and recommendation 4 CHECKS THE RESULT Is every element supported by evidence in theworkpapers? If not: flag the unsupported element for more workbefore finalizing. Back to step 3. 5 DOES Look for compensating controls in the evidence 6 CHECKS THE RESULT Does the rating match the rating rules givencompensating controls? If not: adjust the rating and record the reason. Back tostep 5. 7 DOES Draft the management response request 8 YOU APPROVE Lead auditor approves the findings 9 RESULT Findings ready for the audit report
Read the steps as a list
  1. Control testing complete
  2. Read test results and workpaper evidence
  3. Draft the finding with condition, criteria, cause, effect and recommendation
  4. Is every element supported by evidence in the workpapers?If not: flag the unsupported element for more work before finalizing. Back to step 3.
  5. Look for compensating controls in the evidence
  6. Does the rating match the rating rules given compensating controls?If not: adjust the rating and record the reason. Back to step 5.
  7. Draft the management response request
  8. Lead auditor approves the findingsThe agent waits here for your OK.
  9. Findings ready for the audit report

How it decides

It drafts a finding only where evidence supports each element, and sets the rating strictly by the rating rules.

  • Require evidence for every finding element
  • Rate strictly by the rating rules
  • Reflect compensating controls in the risk

Make it yours

Every agent is a starting point. You choose these settings for your own situation.

  • Finding template
  • Rating rules
  • Whether to note compensating controls
  • Report style

What keeps you in control

It always asks you first

  • Including findings in the client report

Hard limits

  • Does not overstate findings beyond evidence
  • Nothing to the client without approval

It stops when

  • Done: findings evidenced and approved
  • Stop: workpaper evidence is missing

Set it up

We guide you through the set-up, step by step

Members get the full set-up guide for this agent. No technical skills needed: you copy, paste and upload.

10 minto set it up in your AI
5 AIsChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, Grok
  • One set of instructions to paste into your AI, with the clicks for ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Gemini and Grok
  • The agent then walks you through connecting your own data, one source at a time
  • A downloadable copy with the flow chart, the rules and the full guide
Get access to this agent

An example run

What happensAfter fieldwork at Rowan Health Network in April, a backup control failed testing. The agent drafted a finding, then found daily replication to a second site in the evidence and lowered the rating from high to medium per the rating rules. A second finding had no documented cause, so the evidence check failed and it flagged it for more work. The lead auditor approved the first finding.

More agents for auditors