A New Approach to Audit and Control in Enterprise Software

Businesses often come up with great ideas; when auditors come in six months later, they find that some tasks were done incorrectly. Auditing forward means addressing compliance and internal controls as part of the system and process design of a project or new strategy in order to identify potential holes and weaknesses where mistakes, omissions, or even fraud could happen.

The Workday technology platform instantiates internal controls in business processes. These business processes are configurable without expensive IT coding and the overhead of the associated process. Therefore, considering, designing, and implementing real-time auditing integrated into the business processes allows the business to audit forward.