What's new with CCH Axcess™ Audit - May 2025

New audit tools for public sector clients

CCH Axcess Audit Government Workflows introduces advanced tools tailored for firms with public sector clients. This comprehensive set of audit tools automates workflows, consolidates data, and provides real-time access to financial information. By leveraging these tools, firms can enhance service quality, reduce errors, and improve financial management.

The CCH Axcess™ Knowledge Coach Single Audit Title provides detailed guidance for auditing entities receiving federal funds, ensuring thoroughness and compliance with standards. One of the key features added to CCH Axcess™ Engagement is Fund Trial Balances, which consolidates multiple trial balances into government-wide statements, ensuring accurate reporting and compliance. Additionally, Consolidations automate the consolidation of financial data across various funds, reducing manual effort and errors.

With the addition of government audit workflows, CCH Axcess Audit now provides a complete set of accounting and audit tools for every type of engagement, including prep, comp, review, audits, consolidated/multi-tier audits, business tax return preparation, and government audit engagements.

New data analytics tools available for preview

CCH Axcess Engagement Analytics is set to revolutionize data analytics with its new cloud-based tools. It provides automated, AI-enabled testing and analytics with dynamic data visualizations. Future releases this year will include GL anomaly detection, trends and ratio analysis for trial balance and general ledger, and general ledger flow analysis. Firms can leverage data-driven insights to conduct high-quality audits with an automated, integrated audit workflow.

CCH Axcess Engagement Analytics is built into CCH Axcess Engagement, providing real-time access to critical financial information, ensuring data remains current and relevant.

Sign-up for the CCH Axcess Engagement Analytics preview to get early access to try out the general ledger ingestion and journal entry testing path available now in CCH Axcess Engagement.

Transforming engagements in the cloud

CCH Axcess Engagement now includes features previously exclusive to CCH^® ProSystem fx^® Engagement. These updates bring the cloud solution closer to parity with CCH ProSystem fx Engagement, offering additional features for a seamless transition to the cloud.

New features include Quarterly Engagements, which manage engagements on a quarterly basis for detailed insights. OLE Link Support reduces data entry errors by linking data from various applications. The Finalization feature streamlines the completion and closing of engagements, while Notes Categorization organizes and prioritizes notes effectively. Multi-select and Delete Accounts efficiently cleans up trial balances.

As CCH Axcess Engagement matures, our development teams continue to add features and functionality to match or exceed CCH ProSystem fx Engagement. 

Caseware Conversion Utility

CCH Axcess Engagement introduces a self-service conversion tool for migrating from Caseware. This tool converts Caseware engagements into CCH Axcess Engagement, simplifying the switch for firms.

The Self-service Utility allows firms to convert data conveniently with minimal effort, making the transition smoother and more efficient. 

Consolidated bank confirmations save time and money

In 2024, CCH Axcess™ Validate added statement confirmations, enabling firms to request detailed bank statements with full transactional data and account details. With statement confirmations, auditors receive a data set that is more complete than ever before and far more detailed than any other confirmation software can provide.

The latest 2025 enhancements further streamline the confirmation process, reducing the need for repeated requests and manual effort. These enhancements facilitate multiple account confirmations in a single request, providing more complete data sets with more economical pricing. Multiple Statement Requests allow up to five statements in a single request. Consolidated Request Licensing bills consolidated confirmation requests as a single transaction, at a lower total price than multiple single requests.

Bringing conversational AI to accounting and audit research

In December, CCH^® AnswerConnect expanded its AI capabilities for enhanced research and client interactions. The AI-enabled text chat provides quick access to trusted content and research summaries, saving time and improving research efficiency.

Key features include AI-generated Responses based on proprietary content for accurate client service. Staff can interact with the AI-generated answers by asking follow-up questions and save time by having the AI assistant format responses in tables or charts, writing memos or emails, or generating to-do lists. GenAI responses provide direct access to the sources referenced to generate the response as well as related tools and practice aids.

CCH AnswerConnect ensures access to trusted content from within your preferred workflows. It provides easy to use, AI-enabled tools to help staff find and utilize the information they need, combining Accounting Research Manager’s trusted accounting and audit content with CCH AnswerConnect’s user-friendly interface.

Stay tuned for more updates as CCH Axcess Audit continues to innovate and enhance its offerings to meet the evolving needs of audit professionals.