An audit assistant that lives inside the files your team is already in.

Built for audit partners and managers at large and mid-sized Australian firms running financial statement audits. Halo prepares the testing, runs the sampling, agrees the figures back to source, and explains its working in language a reviewer can read.

Video pending · An audit, top to tail
BHP Group Limited · ABN 49 004 028 077 · FYE 30/06 · Auditor: KPMG

What a statutory audit actually looks like from the inside.

A team of four, three weeks at the client, a trial balance, twenty-something working papers, and hundreds of supporting documents. The hard work is the thinking. The slow work is the file gathering, the matching, and the tying out, and that's where most of an audit's hours actually go.

  1. 01 Trial balance arrives
    Often as a long Excel export. Often without the supporting reconciliations. Often without the prior year mapping.
  2. 02 Workpaper templates are populated by hand
    Account by account. Tickmark by tickmark. By a graduate, mostly, who is learning what a tickmark means.
  3. 03 Samples are selected, then re selected
    Because the first selection landed on three rows the client has already deleted from the ledger.
  4. 04 Exceptions are emailed, chased, and reconciled
    A week of inbox roulette before the file is presentable.

The slow work, taken off your team.

Drop the trial balance and the supporting evidence into a Job. Halo populates the workpapers, agrees the figures to source, picks the samples, and flags the exceptions, with every line citing the cell, the page, and the document. Your job becomes reading the file, asking the questions, and signing the opinion.

See it on your audit
Video pending · Workpaper preparation
BHP Group Limited · Cash and cash equivalents

Tooling built for the audit specifically.

Workpaper testing

Populate the audit working papers straight from a trial balance, with every figure agreed back to its source, reconciled against the prior year, and citing the exact cell it came from.

Video pending · Workpaper testing

Sample selection

Random, monetary unit, and risk weighted sampling. Halo explains why each row was chosen. Re run with a different seed and the working is repeatable.

Video pending · Sample selection

Reconciliations

Bank, intercompany, ledger to statement. Matched with citations. Breaks remain breaks until you accept them.

Video pending · Reconciliations

Analytical review

Variance against prior year, against budget, against the published peer comparables. Halo flags the lines worth a conversation.

Video pending · Analytical review

Going concern

Pull the cash flow forecast, model the sensitivities, and prepare the going concern memorandum. The auditor reviews the result; Halo does the drafting.

Video pending · Going concern

Audit report drafting

Draft the auditor’s report from the file. Every reference to the financial statements is checked back. No invented paragraphs.

Video pending · Audit report drafting

Bring an audit and watch Halo work it.

A live session on your own trial balance and your own working papers, with your team in the room. Forty minutes.

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