IT Audit
Start with the systems behind a client's financial reporting or a defined technology risk. Agree IT general controls, application controls and specialist involvement before extending the work to further systems.
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Add an IT, SOC, AI or internal audit practice line
Build a new service around the clients you know, with agreed people, technology, workflows, specialists and training behind the work.
You do not need to treat a new practice line as a separate business from day one. Start with a specific client need and a delivery arrangement your reviewers can evaluate, then decide what to expand.
Choose the work first
A defined line, not an all-purpose promise.
SOC
Build evidence requests, control mapping and testing into the assurance methodology you already lead. Distinguish firm delivery support from enterprise readiness, and settle the reviewer and reporting responsibilities at the outset.
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Offer a bounded review of AI governance, agents or general controls. Identify the use cases, access boundaries and evidence needed for the review rather than promising an assessment of every possible AI risk.
Explore AI AssuranceInternal and operational assurance
Add coverage for technology and business processes under an agreed internal audit plan. Define process owners, testing procedures, reporting lines and how exceptions will reach the responsible team.
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The authority stays with your firm.
Your firm brings the applicable licences, engagement acceptance procedures, methodology, client relationships and required sign-off. Establish who is competent to lead and review the new work, which standards apply and which services your organisation may offer.
- The client relationship
- Engagement leadership
- Methodology and standards
- Professional judgment
- Required review and sign-off
AuditPartners is not a CPA firm or a certification body and does not issue audit opinions, SOC reports or certificates. The responsible firm or body retains engagement responsibility, professional judgment, review, report issuance and certification decisions.
Delivery support does not provide turnkey regulatory approval or confer a licence or accreditation. Resolve those requirements independently before accepting the engagement.
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People and workflows behind your offer.
AuditPartners adds agreed professional delivery capacity and specialist input to the work you lead. Delivery personnel, qualifications, location and availability are agreed per engagement, along with the procedures they will perform and the format your reviewers need.
RiskAssist™ is internal technology operated by our professionals. AI-assisted preparation is used only where agreed, with human review before anything reaches your firm's reviewer.
- Evidence intake. Evidence intake and request tracking within the agreed working-file process.
- Control mapping. Linking evidence to agreed criteria, with relevance, scope, period and sufficiency checked before reuse across frameworks.
- Consistency checks. Comparing what a policy says, what a system shows and what a sample contains; differences are referred to a professional.
- Draft analysis. First-pass evidence summaries and analysis that a professional edits, confirms or rejects.
Co-delivery, white-label presentation, client protection and confidentiality are offered subject to the applicable agreement for each engagement.
Scope the line
Choose a buyer need and a service your firm is authorised and prepared to lead. Agree the criteria, review approach, delivery roles, permitted tools and evidence handling. Identify gaps in competence or capacity before accepting work.
Pilot one engagement
Use a bounded engagement with a named firm reviewer. Check the evidence request, testing instructions, working-file format and escalation route together. Review the pilot's exceptions and reviewer feedback before deciding whether the delivery arrangement is suitable.
Serve the first clients
Apply the revised workflow to the next agreed engagements. Confirm scope and staffing separately for each client; an earlier pilot does not establish suitability for a different system or reporting requirement. Keep acceptance and client communication with your firm.
Move into steady state
Agree scheduling, review checkpoints and handover expectations as demand develops. Revisit specialist availability, tools and training when the work changes. Expansion follows the firm's review capacity and engagement decisions, not an automatic rollout.
AuditHive™ upskilling
Develop the team that will review the work.
Plan training around the roles in the new line: engagement leaders, delivery professionals and reviewers may need different depth. AuditHive™ upskilling complements supervised engagement experience; completing a programme does not itself authorise a firm to issue reports or make certification decisions.
Cybersecurity & IT assurance
- EC-Council CND, CEH, CPENT
- EC-Council CHFI, ECIH, CTIA
- EC-Council CCSE
AI governance
- ISO/IEC 42001 Foundation, Lead Auditor and Lead Implementer
- Company awareness sessions on AI use and oversight
Choose the first engagement.
Tell us which practice line you want to add, the work already in view and who will review it. We can discuss an agreed pilot before you extend the offer.