Fisco, Contabilità e PagheAggiornatogiugno 01, 2026

What's new with CCH Axcess™ Audit - June 2026

Per: Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting

Punti chiave

  • The Knowledge‑Driven Audit: Cloud‑based audits powered by agentic intelligence.
  • CCH Axcess Engagement: Faster, more transparent engagements with less manual effort.
  • CCH Axcess Knowledge Coach: Modernize to the cloud with most industry titles now available for migration

The Knowledge‑Driven Audit by CCH Axcess™ Audit 

CCH Axcess™ Audit is a fully integrated, cloud‑based audit suite designed to help firms deliver higher‑quality, more defensible audits with greater efficiency and confidence. Built on a trusted audit methodology backbone, it brings engagement management, knowledge‑based guidance, analytics, and workflow together on a single platform, so knowledge, not isolated tasks, drives every decision. 

With the introduction of the Knowledge‑Driven Audit, Wolters Kluwer is advancing audit through Expert AI and purpose‑built agentic workflows embedded directly into the CCH Axcess™ platform. These intelligent capabilities work alongside auditors to reduce manual effort, surface risks and insights earlier, and improve consistency, without replacing professional judgment. 

Built on CCH Axcess™ Engagement and Knowledge Coach®, the Knowledge‑Driven Audit connects documents, prior‑year context, structured data, and firm guidance into one orchestrated workflow. Professional standards, engagement‑specific risk, and firm methodology remain embedded throughout the audit, strengthening evidence‑to‑conclusion traceability while keeping audits explainable, defensible, and firmly auditor‑led. 

Here’s a look at the latest updates:

New features in CCH Axcess™ Engagement

CCH Axcess™ Engagement continues to deliver enhancements that help firms work more efficiently and confidently. 

  • Reuse trusted data across engagements by importing trial balances from other engagements—reducing rework and improving accuracy. 
  • Work with familiar tools using expanded support for macro‑enabled workpapers.
  • Make faster adjustments with the ability to edit account names and numbers directly in the trial balance. 
  • Keep work moving with placeholders that prevent delays while waiting for client information.
  • Handle complex engagements more efficiently with enhanced consolidation capabilities, including custom grouping lists, additional columns, and trial balance links. 
  • Turn data into insight with built‑in ratio analysis and visualizations that support stronger review and advisory conversations. 
  • Speed engagement setup using Import Trial Balance, Roll Forward, and Copy Engagement APIs.
  • Deliver polished reports with classified reports for tax and consolidated engagements. 
  • Improve transparency for reviewers with drill‑down from consolidated views to account and journal entry detail, plus embedded workpaper reference hyperlinks.

CCH Axcess Knowledge Coach migration progress 

Firms can continue to modernize to the cloud without changing their audit methodology. 

  • Knowledge Coach title migrations continue to expand, with most major industries available now, including Commercial, Government, Not‑for‑Profit, Financial Institutions, Healthcare, Employee Benefit Plans, Construction, and Real Estate PCR. 
  • Single Audits are coming later this summer.
  • Migration remains a low‑friction path to CCH Axcess™ Engagement, helping firms protect prior investments while preparing for future innovation.

CCH Axcess Knowledge Coach migration updates

Easily transition to CCH Axcess Knowledge Coach! Thirteen titles are ready for migration, with six more coming soon. Download the latest migration tool and migrate during Pfx Engagement binder creation.

New Audit APIs

Automate engagement setup, workpaper management, and trial balance integration to reduce manual effort and streamline workflows.

Engagement APIs 
Create and manage engagements with consistent properties for greater efficiency.

Workpaper Management APIs 
Add/remove workpapers across multiple engagements and integrate with your systems for folder structure, files, and sign-off status.

CCH Axcess Engagement Analytics is now available in CCH Axcess Engagement 

CCH Axcess Engagement Analytics delivers automated, AI-enabled testing and dynamic data visualizations to support audit workflows. It enables real-time access to financial data, ensuring accuracy and relevance throughout engagements. Key features include general ledger anomaly detection, journal entry testing, and ratio analysis to enhance audit quality and efficiency.

Firms can now leverage data-driven insights to conduct high-quality audits with an automated, integrated audit workflow.

Migrate fund engagements from CCH ProSystem fx Engagement to CCH Axcess Engagement 

Fund migration is now available in addition to other engagement types, allowing firms to transfer their Fund engagements from CCH ProSystem fx Engagement to CCH Axcess Engagement.

As a reminder, to migrate firms need to purchase implementation consulting services, which include access to the migration tool and training on how to use it. After training, the migration process becomes self-service, enabling firms to complete it at their convenience. Learn more here.

Knowledge Coach automatic user release

Active users can now be released within Knowledge Coach. For example, if a user has a Word-based Knowledge Coach file open and is marked as the active user, simply closing the file will release it. This allows other users to open and edit the file without needing manual intervention.

Don't miss these updates from earlier in the year:

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.

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.

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