2014 Innovation Award Nominee: PPC’s SMART Practice Aids – Audit Essential

SMART Audit Essential brings an entirely new level of efficiency to audit engagements without sacrificing quality.  It is a new, innovative and simplified version of the widely used SMART Practice Aids suite of products. 

In an environment where firms are facing more competition and pressure to reduce fees, and audits and standards are overly complex and time-consuming to incorporate into firm processes, practitioners need to be more efficient in audit planning and execution without sacrificing quality. PPC’s SMART Practice Aids, part of the Checkpoint Tools suite of products, brings advanced functionality to PPC’s Practice Aids Audit and Accounting products for all specialized industries. PPC’s SMART Practice Aids – Audit Essential takes the guess-work out of steps needed for practitioners to effectively and confidently serve their clients. 

• Expert-authored content provides the advantage of collective decades of professional experience
• Experience dynamic automation across an unparalleled breadth of industries
• Use PPC’s SMART Practice Aids – Audit Essential with or without all paperless engagement products
• Experience exclusive integration with Engagement CS® and AdvanceFlow™, part of the CS Professional Suite from Thomson Reuters
• Pre-defined engagements for small, non-complex entities save time, or create custom engagements as required
• Document audit planning, accumulate identified audit risks and relate to relevant assertions, assess risk, and complete audit programs  
• Custom audit programs based on risk assessment ensure compliance on every engagement  
• Roll client engagements forward with changes flagged to the next period

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