You will learn how to plan, execute, monitor, and manage audits using SAP Audit Management solutions. The course helps you understand audit workflows, compliance requirements, and risk-based auditing processes used by organizations.

This course equips you with practical SAP auditing knowledge that is valuable across industries such as banking, manufacturing, healthcare, and IT services. It can help you qualify for roles related to audit management, governance, risk, and compliance.

Yes. The training includes practical exercises that help you work with audit planning, findings management, audit reporting, and compliance monitoring. Hands-on learning improves your confidence in real-world project environments.

Organizations are increasingly focusing on governance, risk management, and compliance. Learning SAP Audit Management helps professionals support audit processes efficiently and contribute to organizational transparency and regulatory compliance.

SAP Audit Management is an SAP solution used to manage internal audit activities across the audit lifecycle. It supports audit planning, preparation, execution, working papers, findings, reporting, and follow-up.

The main phases are Planning, Preparation, Execution, Reporting, and Follow-Up. These phases provide a structured lifecycle for managing audits from initial planning through remediation monitoring.

An Audit Universe represents the collection of auditable areas within an organization. It can be used as the foundation for identifying auditable items and developing risk-based audit plans.

An auditable item represents a process, organizational area, activity, or other entity that can be subject to an audit. Auditable items can be incorporated into audit planning and risk assessment activities.

Risk-based auditing prioritizes audit activities according to the risks associated with business processes and organizational areas. Risk information can help audit teams determine where audit resources and coverage should be focused.

Risk assessment evaluates identified risks based on configured criteria and organizational requirements. The results can support audit prioritization and annual audit planning.

Controls are mechanisms or activities designed to prevent, detect, or reduce risks. During audit execution, auditors can evaluate the effectiveness of relevant controls and document their testing results.

Audit planning defines which areas, risks, processes, and organizational units should be audited during a particular period. An audit plan can also include timelines, resources, scope, and other planning information.

An annual audit plan organizes planned audit activities for a defined audit period. It can be developed using risk-based priorities and can specify the audits, scope, resources, and schedules to be managed during the period.

Audit prioritization determines which auditable items or risk areas should receive attention based on defined criteria. Risk exposure, business importance, previous audit results, and organizational requirements may be considered.

An audit plan workflow controls the review and approval process for an audit plan. It can help move the plan through configured statuses before audits are released for execution.

An audit engagement represents a specific audit assignment with a defined objective and scope. It contains information required to organize the audit team, schedule activities, perform fieldwork, and document results.

An audit can be created as part of an audit plan or according to the configured audit-management process. The audit can then be initiated and moved through preparation, execution, reporting, and follow-up activities.

Audit scope defines the boundaries of an audit. It can identify the processes, organizational units, systems, risks, controls, transactions, or periods that will be examined.

An audit objective describes what the audit is intended to evaluate or establish. Objectives provide direction for defining procedures, evidence requirements, control testing, and expected results.

Audit preparation is the phase in which auditors establish the detailed work program and prepare the audit team for fieldwork. It can include defining work packages, responsibilities, procedures, timelines, and documentation requirements.

An audit work program defines the procedures and activities that auditors perform during an engagement. It provides a structured approach for conducting fieldwork and documenting the work performed.

Work packages divide audit activities into manageable assignments. They can be assigned to individual auditors or team members and can contain procedures, scopes, and working-paper requirements.

Audit fieldwork is the execution stage where auditors perform audit procedures and gather evidence. SAP Audit Management supports activities such as working-paper management, control evaluation, findings documentation, and action-plan creation.

Working papers contain documentation supporting the audit procedures performed and conclusions reached. SAP Audit Management supports creating, uploading, generating, reviewing, and managing working papers.

Yes. SAP Audit Management supports generating working papers from supported sources such as business-rule ad hoc query results and detection-run results. File-generation scenarios can also be configured for working-paper categories.

Audit evidence is documented and associated with the relevant audit work and working papers. Evidence provides support for control assessments, observations, findings, recommendations, and audit conclusions.

Control testing evaluates whether a control is properly designed and operating effectively according to defined audit criteria. Test procedures, evidence, observations, and results can be documented during audit execution.

A control effectiveness assessment records the auditor's evaluation of how effectively a control operates. The assessment can contribute to the identification and evaluation of audit findings.

An audit finding documents an error, deficiency, adverse condition, or other result identified during auditing. SAP Audit Management findings can contain criteria, condition, cause, consequence, ranking, recommendation, working papers, and action plans.

Criteria describe the expected requirement, condition describes what was actually found, cause explains why the issue occurred, and consequence describes the resulting or potential impact. These attributes help structure audit findings consistently.

Finding classification categorizes identified audit issues according to configured types or categories. It helps organizations analyze findings consistently and generate meaningful audit reports.

Finding ranking indicates the relative significance or severity of an audit finding based on configured organizational criteria. It helps auditors prioritize issues, determine management attention, and support remediation planning.

Root cause analysis identifies the underlying reason for an audit issue rather than focusing only on its visible symptoms. It supports the development of corrective actions that address the source of the problem.

An audit recommendation describes the corrective or improvement measure proposed by the audit team in response to a finding. Recommendations can be associated with findings and used as the basis for action plans.

An action plan defines the activities required to address an audit finding. It can contain an action-plan title, details, responsible person, deadline, and workflow status.

Yes. SAP Audit Management supports scenarios in which the auditee can propose an action plan for an assigned finding. The proposed plan can then be submitted to the audit team for review and acceptance or rejection.

Action-plan workflow controls the lifecycle of corrective actions associated with findings. SAP provides configurable workflows that can support creation, submission, review, approval, processing, and completion of action plans.

Remediation tracking monitors whether corrective actions identified from audit findings are completed. It can include responsible users, deadlines, evidence, statuses, and escalation activities.

Audit follow-up evaluates whether management has adequately and effectively implemented agreed actions or recommendations. Auditors can assess completed actions and determine whether the finding has been properly addressed.

Overdue corrective actions can be monitored through action-plan information, deadlines, statuses, and follow-up processes. Organizations can configure workflows and escalation mechanisms according to their audit-management requirements.

Audit reporting converts the results of audit procedures into a formal report containing relevant audit information, findings, recommendations, and action plans. SAP Audit Management provides predefined report templates for supported reporting scenarios.

Audit report templates provide predefined structures for generating audit reports. SAP documentation includes Word, PDF, and interactive audit report templates, depending on the supported configuration and version.

An interactive audit report allows users to edit supported draft findings and action plans outside the core application and synchronize the changes back to SAP Audit Management. This can support collaborative review and offline reporting activities.

SAP Audit Management provides workflows and status schemas for objects such as audits, work packages, findings, and action plans. Workflows can control review, approval, submission, processing, and completion activities.

Continuous auditing uses recurring or automated monitoring activities to identify exceptions or control issues on an ongoing basis rather than relying only on periodic audits. SAP Audit Management can be used with relevant analytics and monitoring capabilities depending on the overall SAP landscape.

Audit analytics can help auditors analyze business data, identify exceptions, evaluate controls, and support evidence-based audit procedures. SAP Audit Management documentation also supports business-rule queries and detection-run results as sources for working papers.

Audit KPIs are measurable indicators used to monitor audit performance and results. Examples include audit completion rates, open findings, issue aging, remediation status, overdue actions, and audit-plan progress.

Audit dashboards provide visual views of audit-related information such as findings, action plans, audit progress, completion rates, and trends. They can help audit management monitor the overall audit portfolio and communicate results.

SAP Audit Management can work with SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance processes to support risk-based auditing, control evaluation, and governance activities. Integration can help auditors use relevant risk and control information during audit planning and execution.

SAP Audit Management for SAP S/4HANA provides audit-management capabilities within the SAP S/4HANA environment. Depending on the architecture and configuration, auditors can use business data and supported integration capabilities during audit planning, execution, evidence collection, and analysis.

Configuration defines how the audit solution operates within the SAP system. Important areas can include audit types, workflows, status schemas, master data, report templates, working-paper categories, roles, authorizations, and integration settings.

Workflow configuration determines how audit objects move between statuses and users. SAP documentation provides predefined workflow concepts for audits, work packages, findings, and action plans, which can be assigned according to audit-type requirements.

Practical projects can include Internal Audit Planning and Execution, Risk-Based Audit Assessment, Audit Findings and Corrective Action Management, Regulatory Compliance Auditing, and Enterprise Audit Reporting Dashboard development. These topics directly align with the practical projects and curriculum listed on the Edubrights SAP Audit Management course page.

SAP Audit Management training can help develop skills in Audit Universe management, risk assessment, risk-based audit planning, audit engagement management, work programs, working papers, evidence management, control testing, findings management, root cause analysis, recommendations, action plans, remediation tracking, audit reporting, workflow configuration, audit analytics, SAP GRC integration, and governance and compliance processes.