Practice efficiency
How long should vouching take? A realistic time budget for SMP audit teams
Most firms budget vouching by feel. Here is the honest arithmetic — and where the week actually goes.
For audit firms running CCH · Malaysia & SingaporeMY & SG
AI agents turn a week of vouching into ten minutes.
Audeet’s AI agents do the audit grunt work inside the workflow your firm already runs on CCH: they read the client’s ledger, map your code ranges, draw the MUS sample, and vouch every sampled invoice — with a trail your team reviews and signs off.
- Standardizes the GL, maps codes, samples, vouches — end to end
- Matched the auditor’s answer key 40/41 — then 29/29
Complements CCH — no change to your audit file
Proven on real client engagements — not demos
Workpapers in your firm’s own templates
The staffing problem
You can’t win the hiring game.
Neither can anyone else.
Every statutory season, the same arithmetic: more engagements than people to staff them. And the gap is widening.
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You can’t hire fast enough.
Audit talent is scarce and shrinking. Fewer graduates want the grind — and every firm is fishing the same small pond.
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The good ones don’t stay.
You spend a year turning a junior into someone useful. Then industry offers them more money for less grind, and you start over.
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The costs keep climbing.
Rising salaries are the visible part. The training, the supervising, the re-training of each replacement — that’s the part nobody bills.
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Humans get tired.
By week nine of busy season, fatigue creeps in and careless tie-out errors slip through — the kind that surface in review. Or worse, after it.
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And it’s all grunt work.
Standardizing ledgers. Ticking and tying. Vouching invoices. Pulling samples. Exactly the work that drives juniors out — and exactly where errors hide.
The result: bottlenecks during statutory season, partners doing junior work at 11pm, and review risk you can’t fully see.
What if the grunt work just… did itself?
Reliably. Consistently. For cents per task — with a trail you review and sign off. That’s Audeet: your most reliable junior auditor. It doesn’t get tired at 11pm, it doesn’t quit in April, and it checks its own work on every run. The vouching a junior loses a week to, it finishes in about ten minutes.
Made for your stack
CCH runs your audit file.
Audeet runs the grunt work.
Nothing about your file changes. Audeet works alongside the software your firm already trusts — it takes the client’s raw ledger, does the standardizing, mapping, sampling and vouching that still eats human hours, and hands back workpapers formatted the way your firm formats them. The work your audit software was never meant to do, Audeet does with AI. That’s the whole point.
- Keeps your chart of accounts and CCH code ranges
- Workpapers follow your firm’s own templates
- No new system for your team to learn
How it works
Real audit procedures, end to end.
Not data extraction with a chat window on top. Audeet runs the substantive procedures the way your firm runs them — your templates, your CCH code ranges, your MUS methodology.
In
Any client GL
PDF or Excel, however messy
Out
A tied workpaper
Formatted, self-checked, ready to review
Tied
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Standardize
Any GL — PDF or Excel, any format — into one clean, canonical working file.
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Map
Every line tagged to your chart of accounts and CCH codes; closing balances reconciled.
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Classify
Revenue, cost of sales, expenses — with tested-100% accounts flagged.
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Sample
Monetary Unit Sampling with your firm’s materiality and confidence parameters.
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Vouch
Reads each invoice, checks amount, date and customer against the ledger; flags exceptions in plain English.
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Tie out
Re-derives its own headline numbers and asserts they tie — before it tells you it’s done.
Proven on real engagements
Tested against the auditor’s own answer key.
Not benchmarks. Real client audits — checked line by line against the work of the humans who signed them.
0/41first engagement
sampled items tied to the auditor’s own answer key, checked item by item
0/29second engagement
a perfect score — plus one catch the human answer key had missed
0mindown from 5 days
for the full vouching cycle — ingest, extract, sample, vouch, tie out
0by architecture
client files stored on any server — they never leave your machine
And when Audeet can’t prove a match, it raises an exception and stops — it flags what it can’t verify. It doesn’t guess.
The catch that made the point
On the second engagement, Audeet didn’t just match the answer key — it flagged a one-letter misspelling in a customer’s name that the human reviewer had missed.
Substantive testing
It does the real testing.
Sampling, vouching, tie-outs — the procedures themselves, not just data extraction. Audeet selects the sample the way an auditor would, vouches each invoice against the ledger, splits real revenue from pass-through amounts, and writes up exceptions in plain English.
- MUS with your materiality and confidence parameters
- Invoice-by-invoice vouching against the ledger
- Revenue vs pass-through amounts, split correctly
- Exceptions explained — not just flagged
Reviewable by design
Every number ties. And shows its work.
Every output is a formatted workpaper that ties out — and the agent independently re-derives its own headline numbers and asserts they match before it says it’s done. When something doesn’t tie or can’t be read, it raises an exception and stops; it doesn’t guess. Every step leaves a trail you can open, check, and challenge. You review; you sign off. The judgment stays yours.
- Self-checked totals on every workpaper
- Exceptions raised, never silently passed
- A step-by-step trail behind every number
- Human review and sign-off, always
The economics
A week of junior work. About ten minutes.
The full vouching cycle — ingest the GL, extract every line, draw the sample, vouch each invoice, tie the workpaper — used to cost an engagement a junior’s week. Audeet runs it end to end in about ten minutes, for cents per task. That figure comes from pilot engagements around four thousand GL lines and forty-odd sampled invoices, once the client’s documents are in; heavier files take longer — minutes longer, not days.
- End to end in ~10 minutes — not five days
- Cents per task — not thousands per seat
- Scale busy season without scaling headcount
Security & confidentiality
Built for firms that answer to regulators.
You’re accountable under ISQM and the PDPA. Audeet was designed around that reality from day one — not retrofitted for it.
Local-first by design
A desktop app, not a portal. Client files stay on the auditor’s own machine; only the specific content a task needs is sent, through a secure relay, to the AI.
Never trained on your data
Client content is not used to train AI models and is not stored on any server — covered by agreement, not by promise. Relevant when PDPA and client confidentiality are on the line.
Your evidence, untouchable
A built-in guard makes the client’s original files read-only. Audeet creates new workpapers — it can’t overwrite the evidence you’ll be judged on.
Built around the obligations you carry
ISQM 1 · quality management
PDPA · confidentiality
MIA · Malaysia
ISCA / ACRA · Singapore
Before you ask
The questions partners ask first.
What happens when Audeet can’t read a document?
It raises an exception and routes the item to your team — with a note saying exactly what it couldn’t verify. It never guesses, and it never passes an item as tied without proving it.
Will the workpapers match our templates?
Yes. Your templates, your CCH code ranges, and your MUS methodology are set up during onboarding — the output is formatted the way your firm already formats it.
Where exactly does client content go?
Files stay on your machine. Only the specific content a task needs travels through a secure relay to a frontier AI model, under a zero-retention, no-training agreement. Nothing is stored on any server.
How much effort is setup?
One hands-on onboarding session. We encode your templates, code ranges and sampling parameters with you — there is no new system for your staff to learn.
What does the pilot cost?
Terms are agreed at the demo — there is no published pricing during the pilot. The economics are per engagement, not per seat, and they are built for SMP practices rather than enterprise budgets.
Does it replace our juniors?
It replaces their grunt work. The sampling, ticking and tying that burns people out runs on Audeet; your people do the review, the judgment and the client work that actually develops them.
“I built Audeet after watching audit teams lose their best people to work no one should be doing by hand. The judgment belongs to auditors; the ticking and tying doesn’t. Every demo request comes to me personally, and I onboard every pilot firm myself — your templates, your code ranges, your methodology.”
— Tevin, founder of Audeet
The grunt work, handled.
The judgment, yours.
Audeet is onboarding a small group of pilot firms in Malaysia and Singapore. If your firm runs on CCH, it will feel like it was built for you — because it was. And you don’t have to take a choreographed demo’s word for it: bring an engagement you’ve already signed, run Audeet on it, and compare the output to your own answer key.
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