Audit Workspace for the Audit supervisor

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title: Audit Workspace for the Audit supervisor
description: An audit supervisor organizes and manages internal audits according to plans.
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release: australia
product: Audit Management
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last_updated: "2026-09-10"
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breadcrumb: [Audit Workspace overview, Audit Management, Governance, Risk, and Compliance]
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# Audit Workspace for the Audit supervisor

An audit supervisor organizes and manages internal audits according to plans.

## Overview of audit supervisor workspace

Audit workspace provides a personalized experience for audit supervisors to manage their work better. There are four main sections that help in accomplishing their audit tasks better.

-   **Overview**

    Provides the audit timeline and overview.

-   **Tracking**

    Provides a summary of audit tasks, issues, observations.

-   **Open audits**

    Provides details of open plan and engagement details.

-   **Tasks**

    Provides a summary of the logged in user's tasks and the group's tasks.


\[Omitted image "audit-supervisor-ws.png"\] Alt text: Workspace for audit supervisor.

The audit supervisor workspace also provides quick links to create new records.

\[Omitted image "audit-supervisor-ws-tasks.png"\] Alt text: Links to create records for audit supervisor.

The responsibilities of audit supervisors include overseeing the process of audits, making recommendations on policies, and ensuring that the organization fulfills international and governmental obligations of compliance.

## Tasks of an audit supervisor

The following table lists the key tasks that you perform in your role as an Audit supervisor.

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Activity

</th><th>

Task

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Plan and schedule audit programs and send plans for approval.

</td><td>

Create a plan

</td></tr><tr><td>

Approve an plan.

</td><td>

Approve a plan

</td></tr><tr><td>

Create audit engagements and monitor the progress.

</td><td>

Create an audit engagement

</td></tr><tr><td>

Perform risk assessments and scope auditable units and entities based on the risk rating.

</td><td>

Create auditable units and scope entities at risk

</td></tr><tr><td>

Create test plans to document control testing procedure. Coordinate walkthroughs and interviews for assessing internal control processes.

</td><td>

-   Create a test template
-   Create a test plan

</td></tr><tr><td>

Review audit observations, issues and follow up on them.

</td><td>

-   Create issues for the engagement
-   Create observations for the engagement

</td></tr><tr><td>

Review and approve audit engagements.

</td><td>

Approve or reject an engagement

</td></tr><tr><td>

Developing recommendations and reports based on audits and presenting these ideas to senior management.

</td><td>

Generating report for an engagement

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>