u/Positive-Nature854

Curious how other in-house teams handle this. When your external auditor sends a sample selection (say 100-200 transactions) and needs supporting documentation, what does that actually look like on your end?

A few things I'm trying to understand:

• Do you pull everything manually from your accounting system, or does your auditor have direct access?
• Roughly how long does it take to pull support for a typical sample?
• Where do the documents usually live, ERP attachments, a shared drive, somewhere else?
• Any horror stories, tight deadlines, missing docs, having to redo it?

Not selling anything, just trying to understand how painful this actually is across different teams and tools before deciding if it's worth solving.

Trying to get a real read on this before building anything. When your auditor sends over a sample selection list (say 100-200 transactions) and wants supporting docs, what does the process actually look like for your team?

Specifically curious about:

• Does your auditor have direct read access to your ERP, or do you have to pull and send everything yourself?
• If manual, roughly how many hours does it eat during a typical audit cycle?
• Where do the source documents usually live, attached in the accounting system, a shared drive, somewhere else?
• Has this ever caused real friction, tight deadlines, redone work, anything sent back?

Not selling anything, genuinely trying to understand how big a problem this actually is before deciding whether it's worth building a fix for.