Archer Audit Engagements & Workpapers helps enterprise audit teams track the audit universe, engagements, workpapers, testing, and results. It provides review and approval workflows for engagement and workpaper documentation, alongside a centralized Audit Program Library and workpaper repository. Audit report and planning memo templates support documentation, while findings and remediation plans can be managed with comment review. The product supports offline audit engagements and shares data with Archer risk and compliance functions, using existing risk and control data to help scope audits. Archer describes its wider Audit Management offering as combining planning, engagements, workpapers, and issues in one system. Archer Issues Management is a prerequisite for this product. Pricing is available on request. Archer says its SaaS runs on AWS across global service regions and has a 99.5% composite SLA. The SaaS offering lists ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and ISO 27701 certifications, encryption at rest and in transit, and ongoing third-party penetration testing. Common SaaS environments are multi-tenant, with dedicated database infrastructure and single-tenant environments available at additional cost.
Who it is for
It is intended for enterprise internal audit departments, including heads of internal audit, that need to coordinate audit work and remediation. Organizations using it need Archer Issues Management as a prerequisite.
What is good
- Tracks the audit universe alongside engagements
- Review and approval workflows for workpapers
- Centralized audit program library and repository
- Supports offline audit engagements
- Shares data with Archer risk and compliance functions
What to know first
- Archer Issues Management is a prerequisite
- Pricing is available on request
- Dedicated database and single-tenant environments cost extra
Verdict
Archer brings audit planning records, workpapers, findings, and remediation workflows together, with connections to Archer risk and compliance data. It may fit enterprise audit teams, but requires Archer Issues Management and has no listed price.
Compared on internal audit software
- Controls testing
- Yes
- Workpaper management
- Yes
- Finding tracking
- Yes
- Remediation workflows
- Yes
- Risk assessment
- not stated
