Industries
The workpaper is the product.
In most industries, documentation supports the work. In an audit firm, the documentation is the work. What you sell is a defensible file: evidence gathered, procedures performed, conclusions supported. Cogniveil is built for organizations whose product is proof.
01 · The regulatory frame
The frame you operate under
Engagements run under auditing standards that define sufficient evidence, documentation, and file retention. Independence rules constrain who can do what for whom. Conflict checks must hold across the client base. Quality-management standards make the firm accountable for the system behind every file, and the oversight body can inspect an engagement years later.
In an audit firm, documentation is the work: evidence gathered, procedures performed, and conclusions supported.
This is not the Internal Audit solution with a sector label. The buyer is the firm, and the frame is professional standards, independence, conflicts, and client work.
Applicable auditing standards
International Standards on Auditing
Overall audit objectives, professional judgment, and sufficient appropriate audit evidence.
- Scope
- Entity and activity
- Evidence
- Approved sources
- Decision
- Accountable owner
02 · The work in professional services
Named in this sector’s language
Each card describes the job from this industry’s operating frame, then opens the one canonical solution page that runs it.
Evidence extraction into the workpaper
Source documents read, figures extracted, and every number in the file tied to the exact line it came from.
Run by Audit evidence extractionSampling, materiality, and reconciliation
Computed deterministically, not generated by a model, so the method can be shown and re-run.
Run by Deterministic testingClient acceptance and continuance
Due diligence on new clients and entities, beneficial ownership checked, findings documented against firm policy.
Run by Client due diligenceThe firm's own compliance
Independence and quality management policies checked against changing standards, monitoring kept current.
Run by Compliance monitoringEngagement letters and terms
Contract review and comparison across the engagement portfolio.
Run by Contract reviewFinancial statement tie-out
Journal entry testing and tie-out work with the record of who reviewed what.
Run by Journal entry testing03 · Solutions that serve this sector
Ordered by the buyer’s first door
The order follows the way buyers enter the problem. Each link opens the specialist solution behind that work.
Next step
Start with one workflow
Bring the work, the approved sources, and the people who must stand behind the answer.
Or contact sales@cogniveil.ai