Creating an Audit Proposal 
You use this procedure to create an audit proposal from the Internal Audit Management Work Center.
Note
You can also generate an audit proposal from an audit risk rating (ARR). See Generating an Audit Proposal and Audit Plan Proposal for more information.
Prerequisites
You have completed the following:
You have verified that your audit universe has been defined
See Audit Universe and Creating an Auditable Entity for more information.
You have confirmed your role authorization for creating audit proposals
See Internal Audit Management Roles for more information.
You have performed an ARR has been performed (optional)
See Performing an Audit Risk Rating for more information.
Procedure
To create an audit proposal:
Navigate to
Internal Audit Management 
Audit Planning Audit Proposal 
.Select Create on the Active Queries tab.
The Audit Proposal screen appears.
Access the General tab.
On this tab, you enter information in the following fields for your audit proposal:
Name
The audit proposal name:
must be unique across all audit proposals and audit plan proposals within audit planning
cannot be the same as any other names within audit planning
cannot exceed 20 characters
cannot be changed or modified once the audit proposal has been saved
Description
Enter a description for the audit proposal in this field.
Auditable Entity
Enter or select the auditable entity with the status of Released.
Status
The status for the audit proposal can be one of the following:
In Process
The audit proposal data can still be modified or edited
Released
The audit proposal has been released for usage (transfer) and the audit proposal cannot be changed unless the status is changed to In Process.
Completed
The audit proposal data cannot be changed. In Completed status, the transferred audit proposal cannot be edited or changed.
In Completed status, the transferred audit proposal cannot be edited or changed.
Planned Start Date
Enter the date to start processing your audit proposal.
Planned End Date
Enter the date to complete processing of your audit proposal.
NoteWhen you assign an audit proposal to an audit plan proposal, the audit proposal planned Start and End dates must be within the range of the Valid From and Valid To dates of the audit plan proposal. All of the assigned audit proposal Planned Start Dates and Planned End Dates must be within the range of the assigned Valid From and Valid To dates.
End of the note.Responsible Person
Enter the person responsible for your audit proposal.
Estimated Hours
Enter the estimated duration in hours of your audit proposal.
Audit Plan Proposal
This field displays the audit plan proposal once the audit proposal has been assigned.
Select the Subprocess/Control tab
Use this tab to add or remove the audit steps for your audit proposal.
The Effective Date indicated on the Subprocess/Control tab of the audit proposal is used to add Subprocesses and Controls that occur within the effective date indicated.
See Master Data Flow for more information about Subprocess and Control creation through Process Control Master Data.
Effective Date
Enter the Effective Date and select Apply to set the effective date.
See Effective Date Usage for more information.
Add
Select Add to search through the available Subprocesses and Controls for your audit proposal.
The audit step search criteria include the following parameters:
Organization, Subprocess, Control: will show results based on effective date.
NoteYou can also set the effective date to view the detailed Subprocess or Control data on a specific effective date by selecting Open. If Subprocess or Control do not exist within the Effective Date, then the Existence column will be marked with an X.
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Select the Attachments and Links tab.
On this tab you add attachments or hyperlinks that you want to include or associate with your audit proposal.
Select the listed attachment or links.
Select Add, Open, Change, Remove, or use Existing Versions for the attachment.
Choose one of the following actions for your audit proposal:
Select Save to save the audit proposal.
Select Close to close the audit proposal. Any changes you have made will not be saved.