Engagement acceptance
Check independence, conflicts, and fee dependence before the agent accepts new work.
Audit, tax, and advisory firms
Let the intake agent accept routine engagements, and send independence questions to a partner
Low-risk advisory work is accepted without a partner meeting. An audit with active non-audit services stops, and a client worth 19% of office revenue goes to independence review.
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Client work where agents help
Intake is the usual start. Scope changes and deliverables follow once the review rules are written.
Scope changes
A change that alters fees or deliverables goes to the engagement partner with the assumptions.
Workpaper and deliverable review
Hold a flagged deliverable for the reviewer, with the sources the agent used.
An audit the agent had to turn away
Two engagements from the simulator, and who handled them.
Managing partner
Wants routine engagements accepted without a partner meeting.
Independence partner
Gets the fee-dependence case in the Inbox with the revenue share, and decides.
Risk management
Maintains the conflict and independence rules. Changes for the production agent go to compliance to approve.
Quality reviewer
Samples acceptance decisions inside an engagement scoped to the intake agent and the review period.
Where engagement intake slows down
Firms want faster acceptance. Independence rules leave no room for guesses.
SEC independence rules bar some non-audit services for audit clients.
IESBA rules ask for a closer look when one client makes up a large share of fees.
Quality reviewers need to see why each engagement was accepted.
Built-in handoff
The firm’s quality review works from the record
Quality reviewer
The reviewer works inside an engagement scoped to the intake agent and the review period, and sees which acceptances are missing evidence.
See the six role portals and how work moves between themWhat partners get
Fewer acceptance meetings
Routine work moves. Partners see only the engagements that need their judgment.
Rules your risk team controls
Try an independence rule change in Shadow, then send it to compliance for production approval.
A file for quality review
Each acceptance keeps its independence checks and the partner’s decision.
Start with engagement intake
Bring your independence and conflict rules, and see which engagements the agent can accept without a partner.