Follow the conclusion back to the committed event.
Give Internal Audit a traceable connection between the operating standard, authority, procedures performed, evidence population, exceptions, and conclusion.
Scope an Audit WorkflowMove from assembled records to an evaluable chain.
Pulse starts with the actual audit question. For a selected workflow and period, what evidence supports that consequential execution remained authorized? The answer may be conformance, departure, insufficient evidence, or the absence of an approved governing rule.
Define the population
Identify included systems, events, dates, extraction method, completeness checks, and exclusions. Distinguish a full instrumented population from a supplied subset or sample.
Preserve the procedure
Connect each test to the relevant operating condition and criterion. Retain source identity, transformations, findings, reviewer judgment, and evidence that supports reperformance.
Retain the exception
Track ownership, remediation, standard approval, and retest separately from the original result. A closed finding must not rewrite the historical event.
Workpaper-ready does not mean auditor-approved.
The reverse trace is conclusion → procedure → evidence population → event → operating standard → criterion. Pulse can organize that chain so the evaluator does not need to reconstruct it from disconnected documents.
Internal Audit decides its own scope, procedures, evidence sufficiency, reliance, and reporting. Mapping and automation support judgment; they do not substitute for it.
Explore Evaluator HandoffEvidence can begin inside the live workflow.
Where an endpoint is instrumentable, shadow evaluation records what Pulse would have decided without changing production. Approved enforcement can apply ALLOW, ESCALATE, or BLOCK before commit. Both require traceability to the actual system outcome.
The resulting execution evidence can support a practitioner-signed report for the defined scope and become an input to the audit team’s independent review.
See the Report Structure