Build Your Audit Toolbar Business Case
How much time could your team realistically recover from repetitive audit tasks? This calculator uses your firm's own workflow data to estimate the time currently spent on selected audit activities and the potential capacity that could be recovered using the Audit Toolbar.
There are no pre-set assumptions about the size of your firm or the value of your time.
The more accurate your inputs, the more useful the resulting business case will be. If you're unsure about a figure, use a conservative estimate. You can also adjust the sensitivity of the calculation later to see how the business case changes under different assumptions.
At the end, you'll see:
- Estimated hours recovered each year
- The associated staff-cost value
- Potential charge-out value
- The indicative investment
- The resulting financial case
The aim isn't to predict an exact outcome. It's to give you a transparent starting point for assessing whether the Audit Toolbar makes commercial sense for your firm.
Audit Toolbar - Business Case Builder
Focused Insight
This assessment focuses on four key "time-leaks" in the audit cycle for simplicity. However, the true power of the Audit Toolbar extends across dozens of modules designed to drive efficiency and productivity in audit teams whilst increasing and maintaining quality and compliance across the firm.
Ready for the full picture?
Time Recovered
How conservative would you like to be? Use the sensitivity slide
below to be conservative in your estimates and help develop a robust business case.
Projected time recoveries
Your own figures are shown against the time the same task takes with the Audit Toolbar, so every hour in the total traces back to an answer you gave.
| Workflow | Time Spent (minutes) per Workflow | Time Recovered per Engagement | Time Recovered per year (hours) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Currently | With ATB | Recovered Minutes | Workflow Quantity | Recovered Minutes | ||
Figures are shown to one decimal place. Every figure is worked out from your exact answers and rounded only for display, so a column may not add up to its total exactly.
Investment
Below is the indicative time recoveries you will achieve based on investing in the Audit Toolbar.
What that time is worth
Enter your own hourly rates to see the recovered hours as money.
