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  • Explore
    • Home
    • What's New
      • New in Caseware Cloud
      • Release History
        • Cloud 38.0
        • Cloud 37.1
        • Cloud 37.0
        • Cloud 36.0
        • Cloud 35.0
        • Cloud 33.0
    • Roles
      • Firm Administrator
      • Firm Author
      • Enterprise Author
      • Staff
      • Contacts
      • Description of staff roles
    • Licenses and MyCaseware
      • Before purchasing a Caseware Cloud license
      • Get started with MyCaseware
      • Manage your MyCaseware profile
      • Manage your firm account in MyCaseware
      • Purchase and manage a Caseware Cloud license
      • View licenses and downloads for Caseware Desktop products
    • Get Started
      • Get started - Firm Administrator
      • Get started - Staff
      • Get started - Contact
    • Support and FAQs
      • System requirements
      • Frequently asked questions
      • Get technical support
      • Troubleshooting
      • Deprecated features
      • Close a Caseware Cloud account
    • Legal
      • Caseware Cloud data information
      • Caseware Master Product & Services Agreement
      • Caseware Cloud Service Level Agreement
      • Caseware Data Processing Agreement
  • Accomplish
    • Index
    • What is Caseware Accomplish?
    • What's New
      • New in Caseware Accomplish
      • Release updates
      • Known issues
      • Release History
        • Caseware Accomplish Spring 2021
    • Get Started
      • Get started - Firm Administrator
      • Get started - Staff
    • Job Management
      • Assign or reassign jobs
      • Track staff work
      • View and manage job details
  • Caseware AiDA
    • What is Caseware AiDA?
    • What's New
      • New in AiDA
      • Release History
        • AiDA 2025-04
        • Caseware AiDA 2.0
    • Get Started
      • Get started with Caseware AiDA
      • Caseware AiDA FAQ
  • Audit International
    • Index
    • What is Caseware Audit International?
    • What's New
      • New in Caseware Audit International
      • Release History
        • Caseware Audit International 2023.2.0
        • Caseware Audit International 2023.1.0
        • Caseware Audit International 2022.2.0
        • Caseware Audit International 2022.1.0
    • Get Started
      • Get started - Firm Administrator
      • Get started - Staff
      • Get started - Contact
    • Planning
      • Plan the engagement
      • Start the engagement
      • Perform the acceptance and continuance
      • Determine the overall audit strategy
      • Collect information from the client
      • Document the audit team discussions
      • Define materiality
    • Risk Assessment
      • Perform risk assessment
      • Analytical review
      • Understanding the entity
      • Risk identification
      • Control identification
      • Complete the risk assessment documents
      • Document the audit response to assessed risks
      • Request records and documents
    • Fieldwork
      • Complete the plans and procedures worksheets
      • Add additional Fieldwork Worksheets
      • Review fieldwork using Review Tools
    • Conclusion
      • Complete the engagement
      • Provide the summary of misstatements
      • Partner and manager summary
      • Prepare the statement of financial position and statement of profit or loss
      • Wrap up the engagement
    • Authoring Queries
      • Add a query
      • Add guidance to a query
      • Add groups to a client request
      • Add questions to your client request
      • Modify questions in the client request
      • Add or remove a link in text sections
      • Add data links in text sections
      • Link a question to a checklist procedure
      • Change engagement glossary terms and dynamic text
      • Add Author IDs
      • Copy Author IDs
  • Cloud Connector
    • Index
    • What is Caseware Cloud Connector?
    • Get Started
      • Get started with Cloud Connector
      • Purchase and enable Cloud Connector for your firm
      • Data linkage and real time updates in Cloud Connector
      • Insert data using MS Excel formula bar with Cloud Connector
      • Insert data using MS Excel formula dialog with Cloud Connector
      • Insert data using the Cloud Connector pane
      • List of Cloud Connector functions
      • Troubleshooting
  • Hybrid Cloud
    • Index
    • What is Caseware Hybrid Cloud?
    • Get Started
      • Get started - Firm Administrator
      • Get started - Staff
      • Get started - Contact
    • Migration
      • Migrate large data sets (over 50 files)
      • Migrate small data sets (under 50 files)
      • Migrate third-party data
    • Integration
      • Integrate Working Papers with Caseware Cloud
      • Integrate an engagement file with a Cloud entity
      • Integrate Working Papers with Queries
    • Engagement Management
      • Create a Caseware Cloud engagement using Caseware Working Papers
      • Manage sync copies
      • Share a Caseware SmartSync file on Caseware Cloud
      • Move Working Papers files to another entity
      • Create an engagement file for the next period (roll forward)
      • Create placeholders in the engagement file
      • Review the prior year's engagement
  • Sherlock
    • Index
    • What is Caseware Sherlock?
    • What's New
      • New in Caseware Sherlock
      • Release History
        • Caseware Sherlock 6.2
        • Caseware Sherlock 6.1
        • Caseware Sherlock 6.0
        • Caseware Sherlock 5.2
        • Caseware Sherlock 5.1
        • Caseware Sherlock 4.2
        • Caseware Sherlock 4.1
        • Caseware Sherlock 4.0
    • Get Started
      • Get started - Sherlock Reader
      • Frequently asked questions
    • Sherlock Reader
      • View a visualization
      • Print a visualization
    • Sherlock Visualizations (International)
      • Sherlock International Visualizations
      • Risks and Controls
      • Financial Information
      • Partner and Manager Summary
  • SQM
    • What is Caseware SQM?
    • Get started with Caseware SQM
  • Global Statutory Reporting
    • Index
    • What are Global Statutory Reporting apps?
    • Get Started
      • Get started - Firm Administrator
      • Get started - Staff
    • Planning
      • Create and set up an engagement file
      • Complete optimizer checklists
      • Import and manage data
      • Assign accounts to groups in the Data page (new design)
      • Cash flow import / copy-paste tool
      • Choose content language
    • Customization and Configuration Options
      • Define the engagement settings
      • Customize content in the financial statements
      • Customize presentation and formatting in the financial statements
    • Documentation and Review
      • Work with Review Tools in Global Statutory Reporting
      • Add and complete review notes (issues)
    • Conclusion
      • Print the financial statements document
      • Lock down the engagement
      • Carry forward an engagement
  • Cloud API
    • Get started with Cloud API
    • Common use cases
    • Query syntax in GET requests
  • Engagement Management
    • Index
    • Group Audit
      • Group audit overview
    • File Preparation
      • Create a consolidation engagement
      • Create an externally consolidated engagement
      • Set up central planning
      • Define materiality
      • Add a risk from the risk library
      • Viewing your assigned work
    • Planning
      • Check staff workload
      • Create and set up an engagement file
      • Create a new engagement based on an existing file
      • Manage the engagement documents
      • Create an engagement for an interim period
      • Carry forward an engagement
      • Complete a checklist
      • Set deadlines and budgets for a new engagement
      • Set up and import a trial balance containing dimensions
      • Copy risks, controls or checklists from other engagements
    • Staff-Client Collaboration
      • Staff-Client collaboration workflow
      • Create a query document
      • Send the query to contacts
      • Respond to a query
      • Review contact responses
      • Reopen a query
      • Complete a query
      • View queries (the Query dashboard)
    • Data Export from Third-Party Tools
      • Export data from Xero
      • Export data from Quickbooks
    • Data Import
      • Import and manage data
      • Manage your imported data
      • Import data from online accounting software
      • Supported third-party desktop accounting software
      • Prerequisites for importing from desktop accounting software
      • Import data from desktop accounting software
      • Import from QuickBooks desktop
      • Import from QuickBooks desktop (Export from QB)
      • Import from Sage desktop
      • Import data from AuditXML
      • Import data from SAP S4 HANA
      • Import data from SAP using SmartExporter
      • Import the trial balance from an engagement file
      • Import the client's transactions and other subledger data from a CSV or Excel file
      • Sync a trial balance across engagements in different Cloud apps
      • Prepare the transactions CSV file
      • Resolve data import conflicts
    • Understand Trial Balance Data
      • Understand the trial balance dataset
    • Understand General Ledger Data
      • Understand the general ledger dataset
      • Transaction details
      • Account details
      • Additional details
      • Subledger details
      • Process details
    • Understand Subledger Data
      • Understand subledger datasets
      • Accounts payable—invoices
      • Accounts payable—open balances
      • Accounts payable—suppliers
      • Accounts payable—payments made
      • Accounts receivable—Invoices
      • Accounts receivable—cash received
      • Accounts receivable—customers
      • Accounts receivable—open balances
      • Inventory transactions
      • Inventory on hand
    • Accounts and Analysis
      • Add an account or a group in the Data page
      • Assess General Ledger Completeness
      • Assign accounts to groups
      • Assign financial groups to areas
      • Dynamic account reassignment in the Data page
      • View data for consolidation engagements in the Data page
      • Export adjustments and trial balance data
      • Export trial balance groups
      • Post adjustments to the trial balance
      • Review group and account balances in the financial statements
      • Sign off on the trial balance and adjustments
      • View account analysis in checklists
      • View the client's transactions
      • View the client's trial balance data
      • Sample selection
    • Embedded Analytics
      • Manage analytic tests in the Analytics Hub
      • View and manage aggregated analytic test results in Analytics Hub
      • Run analytic tests from checklists and Analytics Hub
      • Generate a sample from Analytics Hub
    • Documentation and Review
      • Upload files to an entity
      • Download files
      • Download Working Papers files
      • Attach documents to an engagement file
      • Add new Word and Excel documents
      • Add annotations
      • Add review notes (issues)
      • Complete review notes (issues)
      • Respond to file requests
      • Work with Review Tools
      • Review prepared documents
      • View the overall engagement status
    • XBRL
      • Review and add XBRL tags
      • Add or edit a context
      • Add a dimensional or typed dimensional context
      • Mark a context as a favorite
      • Add or edit a numeric
      • Export XBRL reports
    • Financial Statements Preparation
      • View guidance information in the financial statements
      • Use non-consolidated balances in the financial statements
      • Exclude prior year information from the financial statements
      • View details of accounts and groups in the financial statements
      • Set a default display option for accounts and groups in the financial statements
      • Review account analysis in the financial statements
      • Rounding in financial statements
      • Replace text and field placeholders in the financial statements
      • Exclude content in the financial statements
      • Add excluded content back in the financial statements
      • Change engagement glossary terms and dynamic text in the financial statements
      • Review the Statement of Cash Flows in the financial statements
      • Create a note in the financial statements
      • Add a note from library in the financial statements
      • Hide sublevel headings for notes
      • Link an account or a group to a note in the financial statements
      • Add data in the financial statements tables
      • Insert the firm logo in the financial statements
      • Translate the financial statements
      • Save and compare financial statements
      • View and share financial statements
    • Conclusions
      • Print the financial statements document
      • Summary of misstatements
      • Post tax adjustments
      • Lock down the engagement
      • Report the engagement status to others
  • Authoring
    • Index
    • Get started
      • Firm authors
        • Get started - firm authors
        • Manage the firm template
      • Enterprise authors
        • Get started - enterprise authors
        • Manage the enterprise template
      • Enterprise firm authors
        • Get started - enterprise firm authors
        • Manage the enterprise firm template
    • Template setup
      • Roles and signoffs
        • Define signoff roles
        • Set up signoff schemes
        • Review and customize signoff schemes
      • Language and localization support
        • Author content and deliverables in multiple languages
      • Analytics
        • Customize analytic tests
        • Link analytic tests to a checklist procedure
      • Components and properties
        • Group properties
        • Define components
        • Assign components to items in your template
      • Engagement settings
        • Customize the lockdown settings
      • Enterprise-only customizations
        • Customize assertions
        • Customize controls
        • Customize risks
        • Customize the Documents page
    • Visibility Logic
      • What are visibility settings?
      • Visibility conditions and examples
      • Add visibility settings in checklists
      • Add visibility settings in queries
      • Add visibility settings in letters or memos
      • Add visibility settings in financial statements
      • Show or hide an item regardless of visibility settings
      • Visibility icons
    • Formatting and Display Options
      • Access the product settings
      • Add a currency
      • Customize the date format
      • Customize the number settings
      • Customize fonts and headings
      • Customize the unit of measurement
      • Customize the content language
      • Customize the financial statement settings
      • Set up bulk print
      • Add a firm logo and letterhead
    • Checklists
      • Add guidance information for staff members
      • Manage synced checklists for central planning
      • Add a checklist
      • Checklist components
      • Review and modify the checklist default settings
      • Add a group or a subgroup
      • Add a procedure
      • Add or remove a link in the procedure description
      • Add a data link in the procedure description
      • Annotate a procedure or subprocedure
      • Review and customize procedure settings
      • Add a response type to a procedure
      • Add authoritative references in a procedure
      • Rearrange procedures
    • Letters and Memos
      • Add a letter or memo
      • Add a Table of Contents in a letter or memo
      • Add a grouping area in a letter or memo
      • Add text in a letter or memo
      • Add or remove a link in text areas in a letter or memo
      • Add placeholders in text areas in a letter or memo
      • Add data links in text areas in a letter or memo
      • Add a page break in a letter or memo
      • Add a header and footer in a letter or memo
      • Set up the print options for a letter or memo
    • Queries
      • Add a query
      • Add contact instructions
      • Add question sets
      • Add a query question
      • Add or remove a link in a query question
      • Add a data link in a query question
      • Add a document reference in the query question
      • Change engagement glossary terms and dynamic text
      • Review and customize query question settings
      • Modify or add a response type to a question
      • Link a query question to a checklist procedure
      • Rearrange query questions and question sets
      • Add Author IDs
      • Copy Author IDs
    • Financial Statements
      • Index
      • Content management
        • Add areas
        • Add cell references in dynamic tables
        • Add custom calculations in text sections
        • Add dimensions
        • Add a financial statement area
        • Add an analysis section in the financial statements
        • Add, change or remove note references
        • Add content areas in the financial statements
        • Add or edit a calculation in table cells in the financial statements
        • Add or remove a link in text sections in the financial statements
        • Add or remove data links in text sections in the financial statements
        • Add or remove placeholders in text sections in the financial statements
        • Add table of contents in financial statements
        • Change the dynamic table font size
        • Copy a table in the financial statements
        • Create custom groups in tables
        • Customize financial groups
        • Customize the financial statements content
        • Customize the financial statements layout
        • Customize font sizes and spacing in the financial statements
        • Customize rounding in the financial statements
        • Delete content in the financial statements
        • Display zero balance columns in dynamic tables
        • Edit notes in the financial statements
        • Edit table columns in the financial statements
        • Edit table descriptions in the financial statements
        • Edit table rows in the financial statements
        • Embed a PDF in the financial statements
        • Hide dynamic table header rows
        • Group columns in dynamic tables
        • Set default underline and overline options for dynamic tables
        • Set default currency symbol options for dynamic tables
        • Specify the currency symbol option for rows
        • Set up the Notes Library
      • Presentation and formatting
        • Add a page break in the financial statements
        • Add a header or footer in the financial statements
        • Change the display option for table rows
        • Customize text in the financial statements
        • Customize the consolidation options in table columns
        • Customize numbered headings in the financial statements
        • Customize the title of the notes section in the financial statements
        • Exclude rows from a custom group total
        • Expand or collapse account group rows in a table in the financial statements
        • Rearrange areas in the financial statements
        • Rename content areas in financial statements
        • Set up the print options in the financial statements
        • View hidden rows and columns in a table in the financial statements
  • Practice Management
    • Index
    • Activities
      • Check system and file history
      • Create a private file or activity
      • Giving feedback to others in Caseware Cloud
      • Share files with users or groups
    • Dashboards and Tracking
      • Manage client relationships
      • Manage tasks
      • Set up dashboards to monitor the audit (Caseware Q)
      • Track the audit progress with Caseware Q
      • Track the engagement file status
      • Track staff work during the engagement
    • Entities
      • Association sharing
      • Entity creation
      • Create client entities
      • Create custom entity types
      • Create entity associations
      • Create views for all users
      • Organize internal entities
      • Workflow examples
    • Files
      • Organize files by folders and tags
      • Recover a previous version or deleted file
      • Rename, delete or replace files
      • Set file retention
      • Work with Google Drive and SharePoint files
    • Maintenance
      • Add custom branding to Caseware Cloud
      • Add external links
      • Create custom fields, tags and workflows
      • Customize system-generated emails
      • Data recovery limitations
      • Deactivate or delete accounts
      • Deactivate or delete client entities
      • Manage purchased engagements
      • Reorganize staff and groups
      • Scheduled Caseware Cloud maintenance
      • Set up general ledger accounts
    • Settings
      • Integrate Caseware Q with Caseware Working Papers
      • Integrate productivity tools with Caseware Cloud
      • Firm settings - Organization
      • Firm settings - Email
      • Firm settings - Integration
      • Firm settings - Security
      • Firm settings - Customization
      • Firm settings - System
      • Firm settings - Engagement File Management
      • Firm settings - Caseware Sherlock
      • Firm settings - Caseware Working Papers
      • Firm settings - Caseware Working Papers Backups
      • Firm settings - CasewareCloud Time
      • Enable the Validis integration
      • Staff rate properties
      • Permissions
      • Enable or disable features for all users
      • Gadget list (Dashboards)
  • Administration
    • Index
    • Business Units
      • About business units
      • Navigate business units
      • Manage staff across business units
      • Manage groups across business units
      • Move entities between business units
    • Roles and Permissions
      • Assign system-wide security roles
      • Built-in roles
      • Caseware Cloud security architecture
      • Controlling access to Caseware Working Papers files
      • Create a private entity
      • Create custom security roles
      • Deny users and groups access to an entity
      • Manage access for Caseware Cloud apps
      • Enable access to Caseware AiDA
      • Login settings
      • Sample Caseware Cloud security framework
      • Security considerations
    • Single Sign-On
      • Integrate single sign-on
      • Integrate single sign-on with ADFS
      • Create a new application group (ADFS)
      • Create a Web API application (ADFS)
      • Create an Issuance Transform rule (ADFS)
      • Generate the Reply URL (ADFS)
      • Integrate single sign-on with Entra ID
      • Register a new app for single sign-on (Entra ID)
      • Generate a client secret (Entra ID)
      • Copy the metadata endpoint (Entra ID)
      • Configure optional claims (Entra ID)
      • Generate the Reply URL (Entra ID)
      • Assign authorized staff to use single sign-on (Entra ID)
      • Assign API permissions (Entra ID)
      • Test your single sign-on integration (ADFS, Entra ID)
      • Integrate single sign-on with Okta
      • Create a new app integration (Okta)
      • Generate client credentials (Okta)
      • Copy the metadata URI (Okta)
      • Manage authorization servers (Okta)
      • Generate the Reply URL (Okta)
      • Test your single sign-on integration (Okta)
      • Frequently asked questions
    • Users and Groups
      • Bulk create user accounts
      • Change notification settings
      • Change personal preferences
      • Create an account for staff or contacts
      • Create staff or contact groups
      • Grant users access to items in an entity
      • Grant users and groups access to entities
      • Onboarding users
      • Review the security settings for the All Staff group
  • Glossary
    • Index
    • Objective of the glossary
    • A
      • account
      • account assignment
      • account group
      • adjustment
      • analytics
      • analytic test
      • artificial intelligence (AI)
    • B
      • business units
    • C
      • carry forward
      • client
      • company
      • connector
      • contact
      • consolidation
      • control
      • customer
    • D
      • data connector
      • data source
      • dataset
      • dataset type
      • dimension
      • document
      • document type
    • E
      • embedded analytics
      • engagement
      • engagement team member
      • entity
      • entity association
      • external consolidation
    • F
      • final balance
      • financial statement
      • financial statement area
      • firm
      • firm author
      • firm template
    • G
      • generative AI
      • group
      • grouping structure
    • H
      • Hybrid Cloud
    • I
      • interim balance
      • issue
    • J
      • job
    • L
      • large language model (LLM)
    • M
      • machine learning (ML)
    • O
      • organization
    • P
      • planning balance
      • primary author
      • product template
      • project
      • provider binding
    • Q
      • query
    • R
      • reporting period
      • review note
      • review tools
      • risk
      • risk assessment
      • risk library
      • role
      • roll forward
    • S
      • schema
      • schemaless
      • signoff
      • signoff role
      • signoff scheme
      • staff user
      • subsidiary
      • synced trial balance
    • T
      • tag
      • template
      • trial balance
    • U
      • user group
    • V
      • visibility settings
    • X
      • XBRL fact
    • Y
      • year-end
    • Z
      • zero-balance account
  • Explore
    • Home
    • What's New
      • New in Caseware Cloud
      • Release History
        • Cloud 38.0
        • Cloud 37.1
        • Cloud 37.0
        • Cloud 36.0
        • Cloud 35.0
        • Cloud 33.0
    • Roles
      • Firm Administrator
      • Firm Author
      • Enterprise Author
      • Staff
      • Contacts
      • Description of staff roles
    • Licenses and MyCaseware
      • Before purchasing a Caseware Cloud license
      • Get started with MyCaseware
      • Manage your MyCaseware profile
      • Manage your firm account in MyCaseware
      • Purchase and manage a Caseware Cloud license
      • View licenses and downloads for Caseware Desktop products
    • Get Started
      • Get started - Firm Administrator
      • Get started - Staff
      • Get started - Contact
    • Support and FAQs
      • System requirements
      • Frequently asked questions
      • Get technical support
      • Troubleshooting
      • Deprecated features
      • Close a Caseware Cloud account
    • Legal
      • Caseware Cloud data information
      • Caseware Master Product & Services Agreement
      • Caseware Cloud Service Level Agreement
      • Caseware Data Processing Agreement
  • Accomplish
    • Index
    • What is Caseware Accomplish?
    • What's New
      • New in Caseware Accomplish
      • Release updates
      • Known issues
      • Release History
        • Caseware Accomplish Spring 2021
    • Get Started
      • Get started - Firm Administrator
      • Get started - Staff
    • Job Management
      • Assign or reassign jobs
      • Track staff work
      • View and manage job details
  • Caseware AiDA
    • What is Caseware AiDA?
    • What's New
      • New in AiDA
      • Release History
        • AiDA 2025-04
        • Caseware AiDA 2.0
    • Get Started
      • Get started with Caseware AiDA
      • Caseware AiDA FAQ
  • Audit International
    • Index
    • What is Caseware Audit International?
    • What's New
      • New in Caseware Audit International
      • Release History
        • Caseware Audit International 2023.2.0
        • Caseware Audit International 2023.1.0
        • Caseware Audit International 2022.2.0
        • Caseware Audit International 2022.1.0
    • Get Started
      • Get started - Firm Administrator
      • Get started - Staff
      • Get started - Contact
    • Planning
      • Plan the engagement
      • Start the engagement
      • Perform the acceptance and continuance
      • Determine the overall audit strategy
      • Collect information from the client
      • Document the audit team discussions
      • Define materiality
    • Risk Assessment
      • Perform risk assessment
      • Analytical review
      • Understanding the entity
      • Risk identification
      • Control identification
      • Complete the risk assessment documents
      • Document the audit response to assessed risks
      • Request records and documents
    • Fieldwork
      • Complete the plans and procedures worksheets
      • Add additional Fieldwork Worksheets
      • Review fieldwork using Review Tools
    • Conclusion
      • Complete the engagement
      • Provide the summary of misstatements
      • Partner and manager summary
      • Prepare the statement of financial position and statement of profit or loss
      • Wrap up the engagement
    • Authoring Queries
      • Add a query
      • Add guidance to a query
      • Add groups to a client request
      • Add questions to your client request
      • Modify questions in the client request
      • Add or remove a link in text sections
      • Add data links in text sections
      • Link a question to a checklist procedure
      • Change engagement glossary terms and dynamic text
      • Add Author IDs
      • Copy Author IDs
  • Cloud Connector
    • Index
    • What is Caseware Cloud Connector?
    • Get Started
      • Get started with Cloud Connector
      • Purchase and enable Cloud Connector for your firm
      • Data linkage and real time updates in Cloud Connector
      • Insert data using MS Excel formula bar with Cloud Connector
      • Insert data using MS Excel formula dialog with Cloud Connector
      • Insert data using the Cloud Connector pane
      • List of Cloud Connector functions
      • Troubleshooting
  • Hybrid Cloud
    • Index
    • What is Caseware Hybrid Cloud?
    • Get Started
      • Get started - Firm Administrator
      • Get started - Staff
      • Get started - Contact
    • Migration
      • Migrate large data sets (over 50 files)
      • Migrate small data sets (under 50 files)
      • Migrate third-party data
    • Integration
      • Integrate Working Papers with Caseware Cloud
      • Integrate an engagement file with a Cloud entity
      • Integrate Working Papers with Queries
    • Engagement Management
      • Create a Caseware Cloud engagement using Caseware Working Papers
      • Manage sync copies
      • Share a Caseware SmartSync file on Caseware Cloud
      • Move Working Papers files to another entity
      • Create an engagement file for the next period (roll forward)
      • Create placeholders in the engagement file
      • Review the prior year's engagement
  • Sherlock
    • Index
    • What is Caseware Sherlock?
    • What's New
      • New in Caseware Sherlock
      • Release History
        • Caseware Sherlock 6.2
        • Caseware Sherlock 6.1
        • Caseware Sherlock 6.0
        • Caseware Sherlock 5.2
        • Caseware Sherlock 5.1
        • Caseware Sherlock 4.2
        • Caseware Sherlock 4.1
        • Caseware Sherlock 4.0
    • Get Started
      • Get started - Sherlock Reader
      • Frequently asked questions
    • Sherlock Reader
      • View a visualization
      • Print a visualization
    • Sherlock Visualizations (International)
      • Sherlock International Visualizations
      • Risks and Controls
      • Financial Information
      • Partner and Manager Summary
  • SQM
    • What is Caseware SQM?
    • Get started with Caseware SQM
  • Global Statutory Reporting
    • Index
    • What are Global Statutory Reporting apps?
    • Get Started
      • Get started - Firm Administrator
      • Get started - Staff
    • Planning
      • Create and set up an engagement file
      • Complete optimizer checklists
      • Import and manage data
      • Assign accounts to groups in the Data page (new design)
      • Cash flow import / copy-paste tool
      • Choose content language
    • Customization and Configuration Options
      • Define the engagement settings
      • Customize content in the financial statements
      • Customize presentation and formatting in the financial statements
    • Documentation and Review
      • Work with Review Tools in Global Statutory Reporting
      • Add and complete review notes (issues)
    • Conclusion
      • Print the financial statements document
      • Lock down the engagement
      • Carry forward an engagement
  • Cloud API
    • Get started with Cloud API
    • Common use cases
    • Query syntax in GET requests
  • Engagement Management
    • Index
    • Group Audit
      • Group audit overview
    • File Preparation
      • Create a consolidation engagement
      • Create an externally consolidated engagement
      • Set up central planning
      • Define materiality
      • Add a risk from the risk library
      • Viewing your assigned work
    • Planning
      • Check staff workload
      • Create and set up an engagement file
      • Create a new engagement based on an existing file
      • Manage the engagement documents
      • Create an engagement for an interim period
      • Carry forward an engagement
      • Complete a checklist
      • Set deadlines and budgets for a new engagement
      • Set up and import a trial balance containing dimensions
      • Copy risks, controls or checklists from other engagements
    • Staff-Client Collaboration
      • Staff-Client collaboration workflow
      • Create a query document
      • Send the query to contacts
      • Respond to a query
      • Review contact responses
      • Reopen a query
      • Complete a query
      • View queries (the Query dashboard)
    • Data Export from Third-Party Tools
      • Export data from Xero
      • Export data from Quickbooks
    • Data Import
      • Import and manage data
      • Manage your imported data
      • Import data from online accounting software
      • Supported third-party desktop accounting software
      • Prerequisites for importing from desktop accounting software
      • Import data from desktop accounting software
      • Import from QuickBooks desktop
      • Import from QuickBooks desktop (Export from QB)
      • Import from Sage desktop
      • Import data from AuditXML
      • Import data from SAP S4 HANA
      • Import data from SAP using SmartExporter
      • Import the trial balance from an engagement file
      • Import the client's transactions and other subledger data from a CSV or Excel file
      • Sync a trial balance across engagements in different Cloud apps
      • Prepare the transactions CSV file
      • Resolve data import conflicts
    • Understand Trial Balance Data
      • Understand the trial balance dataset
    • Understand General Ledger Data
      • Understand the general ledger dataset
      • Transaction details
      • Account details
      • Additional details
      • Subledger details
      • Process details
    • Understand Subledger Data
      • Understand subledger datasets
      • Accounts payable—invoices
      • Accounts payable—open balances
      • Accounts payable—suppliers
      • Accounts payable—payments made
      • Accounts receivable—Invoices
      • Accounts receivable—cash received
      • Accounts receivable—customers
      • Accounts receivable—open balances
      • Inventory transactions
      • Inventory on hand
    • Accounts and Analysis
      • Add an account or a group in the Data page
      • Assess General Ledger Completeness
      • Assign accounts to groups
      • Assign financial groups to areas
      • Dynamic account reassignment in the Data page
      • View data for consolidation engagements in the Data page
      • Export adjustments and trial balance data
      • Export trial balance groups
      • Post adjustments to the trial balance
      • Review group and account balances in the financial statements
      • Sign off on the trial balance and adjustments
      • View account analysis in checklists
      • View the client's transactions
      • View the client's trial balance data
      • Sample selection
    • Embedded Analytics
      • Manage analytic tests in the Analytics Hub
      • View and manage aggregated analytic test results in Analytics Hub
      • Run analytic tests from checklists and Analytics Hub
      • Generate a sample from Analytics Hub
    • Documentation and Review
      • Upload files to an entity
      • Download files
      • Download Working Papers files
      • Attach documents to an engagement file
      • Add new Word and Excel documents
      • Add annotations
      • Add review notes (issues)
      • Complete review notes (issues)
      • Respond to file requests
      • Work with Review Tools
      • Review prepared documents
      • View the overall engagement status
    • XBRL
      • Review and add XBRL tags
      • Add or edit a context
      • Add a dimensional or typed dimensional context
      • Mark a context as a favorite
      • Add or edit a numeric
      • Export XBRL reports
    • Financial Statements Preparation
      • View guidance information in the financial statements
      • Use non-consolidated balances in the financial statements
      • Exclude prior year information from the financial statements
      • View details of accounts and groups in the financial statements
      • Set a default display option for accounts and groups in the financial statements
      • Review account analysis in the financial statements
      • Rounding in financial statements
      • Replace text and field placeholders in the financial statements
      • Exclude content in the financial statements
      • Add excluded content back in the financial statements
      • Change engagement glossary terms and dynamic text in the financial statements
      • Review the Statement of Cash Flows in the financial statements
      • Create a note in the financial statements
      • Add a note from library in the financial statements
      • Hide sublevel headings for notes
      • Link an account or a group to a note in the financial statements
      • Add data in the financial statements tables
      • Insert the firm logo in the financial statements
      • Translate the financial statements
      • Save and compare financial statements
      • View and share financial statements
    • Conclusions
      • Print the financial statements document
      • Summary of misstatements
      • Post tax adjustments
      • Lock down the engagement
      • Report the engagement status to others
  • Authoring
    • Index
    • Get started
      • Firm authors
        • Get started - firm authors
        • Manage the firm template
      • Enterprise authors
        • Get started - enterprise authors
        • Manage the enterprise template
      • Enterprise firm authors
        • Get started - enterprise firm authors
        • Manage the enterprise firm template
    • Template setup
      • Roles and signoffs
        • Define signoff roles
        • Set up signoff schemes
        • Review and customize signoff schemes
      • Language and localization support
        • Author content and deliverables in multiple languages
      • Analytics
        • Customize analytic tests
        • Link analytic tests to a checklist procedure
      • Components and properties
        • Group properties
        • Define components
        • Assign components to items in your template
      • Engagement settings
        • Customize the lockdown settings
      • Enterprise-only customizations
        • Customize assertions
        • Customize controls
        • Customize risks
        • Customize the Documents page
    • Visibility Logic
      • What are visibility settings?
      • Visibility conditions and examples
      • Add visibility settings in checklists
      • Add visibility settings in queries
      • Add visibility settings in letters or memos
      • Add visibility settings in financial statements
      • Show or hide an item regardless of visibility settings
      • Visibility icons
    • Formatting and Display Options
      • Access the product settings
      • Add a currency
      • Customize the date format
      • Customize the number settings
      • Customize fonts and headings
      • Customize the unit of measurement
      • Customize the content language
      • Customize the financial statement settings
      • Set up bulk print
      • Add a firm logo and letterhead
    • Checklists
      • Add guidance information for staff members
      • Manage synced checklists for central planning
      • Add a checklist
      • Checklist components
      • Review and modify the checklist default settings
      • Add a group or a subgroup
      • Add a procedure
      • Add or remove a link in the procedure description
      • Add a data link in the procedure description
      • Annotate a procedure or subprocedure
      • Review and customize procedure settings
      • Add a response type to a procedure
      • Add authoritative references in a procedure
      • Rearrange procedures
    • Letters and Memos
      • Add a letter or memo
      • Add a Table of Contents in a letter or memo
      • Add a grouping area in a letter or memo
      • Add text in a letter or memo
      • Add or remove a link in text areas in a letter or memo
      • Add placeholders in text areas in a letter or memo
      • Add data links in text areas in a letter or memo
      • Add a page break in a letter or memo
      • Add a header and footer in a letter or memo
      • Set up the print options for a letter or memo
    • Queries
      • Add a query
      • Add contact instructions
      • Add question sets
      • Add a query question
      • Add or remove a link in a query question
      • Add a data link in a query question
      • Add a document reference in the query question
      • Change engagement glossary terms and dynamic text
      • Review and customize query question settings
      • Modify or add a response type to a question
      • Link a query question to a checklist procedure
      • Rearrange query questions and question sets
      • Add Author IDs
      • Copy Author IDs
    • Financial Statements
      • Index
      • Content management
        • Add areas
        • Add cell references in dynamic tables
        • Add custom calculations in text sections
        • Add dimensions
        • Add a financial statement area
        • Add an analysis section in the financial statements
        • Add, change or remove note references
        • Add content areas in the financial statements
        • Add or edit a calculation in table cells in the financial statements
        • Add or remove a link in text sections in the financial statements
        • Add or remove data links in text sections in the financial statements
        • Add or remove placeholders in text sections in the financial statements
        • Add table of contents in financial statements
        • Change the dynamic table font size
        • Copy a table in the financial statements
        • Create custom groups in tables
        • Customize financial groups
        • Customize the financial statements content
        • Customize the financial statements layout
        • Customize font sizes and spacing in the financial statements
        • Customize rounding in the financial statements
        • Delete content in the financial statements
        • Display zero balance columns in dynamic tables
        • Edit notes in the financial statements
        • Edit table columns in the financial statements
        • Edit table descriptions in the financial statements
        • Edit table rows in the financial statements
        • Embed a PDF in the financial statements
        • Hide dynamic table header rows
        • Group columns in dynamic tables
        • Set default underline and overline options for dynamic tables
        • Set default currency symbol options for dynamic tables
        • Specify the currency symbol option for rows
        • Set up the Notes Library
      • Presentation and formatting
        • Add a page break in the financial statements
        • Add a header or footer in the financial statements
        • Change the display option for table rows
        • Customize text in the financial statements
        • Customize the consolidation options in table columns
        • Customize numbered headings in the financial statements
        • Customize the title of the notes section in the financial statements
        • Exclude rows from a custom group total
        • Expand or collapse account group rows in a table in the financial statements
        • Rearrange areas in the financial statements
        • Rename content areas in financial statements
        • Set up the print options in the financial statements
        • View hidden rows and columns in a table in the financial statements
  • Practice Management
    • Index
    • Activities
      • Check system and file history
      • Create a private file or activity
      • Giving feedback to others in Caseware Cloud
      • Share files with users or groups
    • Dashboards and Tracking
      • Manage client relationships
      • Manage tasks
      • Set up dashboards to monitor the audit (Caseware Q)
      • Track the audit progress with Caseware Q
      • Track the engagement file status
      • Track staff work during the engagement
    • Entities
      • Association sharing
      • Entity creation
      • Create client entities
      • Create custom entity types
      • Create entity associations
      • Create views for all users
      • Organize internal entities
      • Workflow examples
    • Files
      • Organize files by folders and tags
      • Recover a previous version or deleted file
      • Rename, delete or replace files
      • Set file retention
      • Work with Google Drive and SharePoint files
    • Maintenance
      • Add custom branding to Caseware Cloud
      • Add external links
      • Create custom fields, tags and workflows
      • Customize system-generated emails
      • Data recovery limitations
      • Deactivate or delete accounts
      • Deactivate or delete client entities
      • Manage purchased engagements
      • Reorganize staff and groups
      • Scheduled Caseware Cloud maintenance
      • Set up general ledger accounts
    • Settings
      • Integrate Caseware Q with Caseware Working Papers
      • Integrate productivity tools with Caseware Cloud
      • Firm settings - Organization
      • Firm settings - Email
      • Firm settings - Integration
      • Firm settings - Security
      • Firm settings - Customization
      • Firm settings - System
      • Firm settings - Engagement File Management
      • Firm settings - Caseware Sherlock
      • Firm settings - Caseware Working Papers
      • Firm settings - Caseware Working Papers Backups
      • Firm settings - CasewareCloud Time
      • Enable the Validis integration
      • Staff rate properties
      • Permissions
      • Enable or disable features for all users
      • Gadget list (Dashboards)
  • Administration
    • Index
    • Business Units
      • About business units
      • Navigate business units
      • Manage staff across business units
      • Manage groups across business units
      • Move entities between business units
    • Roles and Permissions
      • Assign system-wide security roles
      • Built-in roles
      • Caseware Cloud security architecture
      • Controlling access to Caseware Working Papers files
      • Create a private entity
      • Create custom security roles
      • Deny users and groups access to an entity
      • Manage access for Caseware Cloud apps
      • Enable access to Caseware AiDA
      • Login settings
      • Sample Caseware Cloud security framework
      • Security considerations
    • Single Sign-On
      • Integrate single sign-on
      • Integrate single sign-on with ADFS
      • Create a new application group (ADFS)
      • Create a Web API application (ADFS)
      • Create an Issuance Transform rule (ADFS)
      • Generate the Reply URL (ADFS)
      • Integrate single sign-on with Entra ID
      • Register a new app for single sign-on (Entra ID)
      • Generate a client secret (Entra ID)
      • Copy the metadata endpoint (Entra ID)
      • Configure optional claims (Entra ID)
      • Generate the Reply URL (Entra ID)
      • Assign authorized staff to use single sign-on (Entra ID)
      • Assign API permissions (Entra ID)
      • Test your single sign-on integration (ADFS, Entra ID)
      • Integrate single sign-on with Okta
      • Create a new app integration (Okta)
      • Generate client credentials (Okta)
      • Copy the metadata URI (Okta)
      • Manage authorization servers (Okta)
      • Generate the Reply URL (Okta)
      • Test your single sign-on integration (Okta)
      • Frequently asked questions
    • Users and Groups
      • Bulk create user accounts
      • Change notification settings
      • Change personal preferences
      • Create an account for staff or contacts
      • Create staff or contact groups
      • Grant users access to items in an entity
      • Grant users and groups access to entities
      • Onboarding users
      • Review the security settings for the All Staff group
  • Glossary
    • Index
    • Objective of the glossary
    • A
      • account
      • account assignment
      • account group
      • adjustment
      • analytics
      • analytic test
      • artificial intelligence (AI)
    • B
      • business units
    • C
      • carry forward
      • client
      • company
      • connector
      • contact
      • consolidation
      • control
      • customer
    • D
      • data connector
      • data source
      • dataset
      • dataset type
      • dimension
      • document
      • document type
    • E
      • embedded analytics
      • engagement
      • engagement team member
      • entity
      • entity association
      • external consolidation
    • F
      • final balance
      • financial statement
      • financial statement area
      • firm
      • firm author
      • firm template
    • G
      • generative AI
      • group
      • grouping structure
    • H
      • Hybrid Cloud
    • I
      • interim balance
      • issue
    • J
      • job
    • L
      • large language model (LLM)
    • M
      • machine learning (ML)
    • O
      • organization
    • P
      • planning balance
      • primary author
      • product template
      • project
      • provider binding
    • Q
      • query
    • R
      • reporting period
      • review note
      • review tools
      • risk
      • risk assessment
      • risk library
      • role
      • roll forward
    • S
      • schema
      • schemaless
      • signoff
      • signoff role
      • signoff scheme
      • staff user
      • subsidiary
      • synced trial balance
    • T
      • tag
      • template
      • trial balance
    • U
      • user group
    • V
      • visibility settings
    • X
      • XBRL fact
    • Y
      • year-end
    • Z
      • zero-balance account

Caseware Hybrid Cloud

What is Caseware Hybrid Cloud?

Get Started

  • Get started - Firm Administrator

  • Get started - Staff

  • Get started - Contact

Migration

  • Migrate large data sets (over 50 files)

  • Migrate small data sets (under 50 files)

  • Migrate third-party data

CloudBridge

  • Get CloudBridge

  • Transfer engagements in bulk with CloudBridge

  • Transfer individual engagements with CloudBridge

Integration

  • Integrate Working Papers with Caseware Cloud

  • Integrate an engagement file with a Cloud entity

  • Integrate Working Papers with Queries

Engagement Management

  • Create a Caseware Cloud engagement using Caseware Working Papers

  • Manage sync copies

  • Share a Caseware SmartSync file on Caseware Cloud

  • Move Working Papers files to another entity

  • Create an engagement file for the next period (roll forward)

  • Create placeholders in the engagement file

  • Review the prior year's engagement

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