CoCounsel Audit

Optimize audit workflows with advanced document management and compliance tools

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Meet CoCounsel Audit

How will CoCounsel Audit transform your workflows?

Consistency at scale

It standardizes the completion and review of audit work, reducing review cycles and eliminating inconsistencies. As an AI audit tool, it ensures that all team members follow the same procedures, maintaining high standards for all auditors.

Automation that actually delivers

It automates audit-ready tasks, such as analyzing trial balances, summarizing PDFs, and preparing risk assessments. This automation frees the team from repetitive tasks, allowing them to focus on more strategic activities.

Trustworthy, verifiable outputs

Every answer provided by CoCounsel Audit comes with plain-language explanations and citations from trusted sources, ensuring that the outputs are easily verifiable and defensible.

Capabilities

Efficiently manage audit tasks with CoCounsel Audit

Experience end-to-end knowledge integration

  • Connect internal audit methodologies, firm templates, policies, and workpapers into a single, searchable workspace.
  • Centralize knowledge, making it easier to find and share critical information.
  • Streamline research and collaboration, ensuring all team members have access to the same tools and information.

Leverage AI designed for real audit workflows

  • Ask complex questions about your documents and receive nuanced answers without missing a detail using CoCounsel.
  • Review SOC 1 reports and evaluate 401(k) plans and related documents.
  • Guide users through firm-approved processes, ensuring compliance and consistency.

Support staff growth and retention

  • Compare documents, identify non-compliant language, and create timelines with patented AI applications.
  • Reduce the burden of mundane tasks by automating the review of revenue contracts for ASC 606 compliance.
  • Provide advanced tools and resources for training and development, enhancing job satisfaction and retention.

Facilitate remote work with integration to existing audit tools

  • Intelligently search entire databases and receive tailored summaries of lengthy documents.
  • Analyze lease requirements under ASC 842 and summarize essential information from client documents.
  • Enhance collaboration through a centralized, intelligent workspace — supporting seamless integration with existing audit processes.

Automate complex tasks into audit-ready work

Use cases

Centralize your audit process into one platform

Draft and review documents

Transform audit preparation with AI-powered document drafting and review. Analyze risks, prepare trial balances, and review financial documents with precision and efficiency.

Analyze risk and develop planning memos

Create detailed risk assessments and comprehensive planning memos, ensuring thorough audit preparation.

Prepare trial balances and Excel workpapers

Draft and review trial balances and Excel workpapers, meticulously streamlining the financial data analysis process.

Review various documents and agreements

Generate and evaluate lease agreements and other financial documents, providing accurate and actionable insights.

Ensure compliance and quality in audit processes

Elevate audit excellence with compliance checks and quality controls. Ensure regulatory adherence, mitigate risks, and maintain uncompromising standards.

Fulfill critical requirements

Adhere to firm methodology and regulatory requirements, ensuring all audit work is consistent and compliant.

Spot non-compliant language

Identify and address non-compliant language in documents, significantly reducing the risk of audit errors.

Increase accuracy with smart reviews

Perform smart reviews to enhance the accuracy and consistency of audit work, improving overall audit quality.

Discover how AI eases your audit workflows

Testimonials

Hear what tax professionals say about CoCounsel Audit

“CoCounsel is like my assistant or staff that actually understands accounting and tax language. You can ask it complex technical questions in just plain English and it will give you a very clear citation-backed answer, often with the relevant ASC guidance on the right side. It's pretty fast, consistent, and it helps you to solve problems while learning along the way.”

Carson Chen
Senior Audit Manager at Sensiba

News

Learn about the latest developments in tax law and technology with CoCounsel Audit

Hutchinson and Bloodgood LLP embraces AI-powered workflow with Thomson Reuters advanced audit solutions

Hutchinson and Bloodgood LLP has partnered with Thomson Reuters to implement CoCounsel and Cloud Audit Suite, enhancing their audit workflow with advanced AI capabilities and improving overall efficiency.

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Thomson Reuters ushers in the next era of AI with launch of agentic intelligence

Thomson Reuters launches agentic AI with CoCounsel, automating complex tasks in tax, audit, and accounting. It integrates firm knowledge, ensures transparency, and reduces workflow time.

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Frequently asked questions

How can I use artificial intelligence for audit workflows?

CoCounsel Audit leverages artificial intelligence to streamline and enhance your audit processes. Here are some key ways to use AI for audits:

  • Tailored answers. Get precise, authoritative responses to technical audit questions.
  • Document summarization. Automatically compile and summarize essential information from client documents.
  • Scenario analysis. Analyze complex client scenarios for actionable insights.
  • Research and compliance. Conduct efficient audit and accounting research and review public company disclosures and accounting policies.
  • Agreement analysis. Examine specific agreements, such as leases, revenue recognition, and warrants for compliance and accuracy.
  • Consistency and efficiency. Ensure tasks are handled consistently with automated insights, reducing manual intervention.
  • Lease agreement evaluation. Instantly review lease agreements, extract key terms, and flag potential issues.
  • Variable consideration clauses. Identify and evaluate variable consideration clauses in SaaS contracts, highlighting specific clauses and ensuring compliance with ASC 606.

How will AI improve audit engagements?

CoCounsel improves audit engagements by providing verifiable outputs and streamlining real audit workflows. It automates repetitive tasks, such as analyzing trial balances, summarizing PDFs, and preparing risk assessments, allowing auditors to focus on higher-value activities and complex judgment calls. CoCounsel ensures consistency and reduces review cycles while integrating seamlessly with Excel and PDFs to support firm-approved processes and compliance with accounting standards like ASC 842 and ASC 606.

Can CoCounsel help with audit planning and risk assessment?

Yes, CoCounsel can assist with audit planning by providing relevant regulatory guidance, historical data, and best practices. It can also help in risk assessment by analyzing financial statements and identifying potential areas of concern.

Does CoCounsel support the creation and management of audit workpapers?

Yes, CoCounsel includes features for creating, organizing, and managing audit workpapers. It can automate the process of generating workpapers, ensuring they are accurate and compliant with regulatory standards.

How does CoCounsel ensure the security and accuracy of audit processes?

We’ve designed CoCounsel Audit with robust security measures to protect data, including being cloud-native and supporting remote workflows while ensuring data protection. For accuracy, it provides trustworthy, verifiable answers with plain-language explanations and citations from trusted sources such as Checkpoint, PCAOB, SEC, firm templates, and audit methodologies. It integrates firm knowledge and supports real audit workflows, ensuring compliance with firm methodology and regulatory frameworks.

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