Diagnostics - Field Work

Engagement-wide diagnostics help you identify incomplete procedures, unanswered questions, inconsistent answers, etc. throughout your engagement. As shown in the following example, on the planning worksheet, to determine the extent of substantive tests, a pop-up warning informs you that sampling is normally not appropriate if an expected misstatement exceeds 1/3 of the tolerable misstatement:

Diagnostics Report

After you have created a Field Work engagement and have completed all pertinent forms, you are ready to run the
Diagnostics Report
, which will help you discover inconsistencies or other conditions that you should consider before generating your planning forms and audit programs.
To generate a diagnostics report, select
Diagnostics
from the
Tools
menu. Then you can review the report to see if there are any issues or inconsistencies, and you can print the report, if you like.