Pentana Audit
Real-time assurance
and agile auditing
made easy
Improve the quality of your internal audits by making
them more efficient, transparent and risk-aligned.
Pentana Audit empowers auditors to contribute more to the resilience and future success of their
organisation. It frees you from the burden of audit admin with automated and consistent workflows so
you can focus on the higher-value activities that make internal audit a strategic business partner.
It has never been easier to enhance your audit maturity with real-time assurance and an agile
approach.
Pentana Audit is an effective risk-based audit management solution
trusted by over 650 organisations worldwide
Join our thriving customer community to enjoy the many benefits of Pentana Audit and discover how it helps internal audit
teams from all sectors meet their ever-evolving challenges.
National Bank of Georgia: ROI case study
20% time-saving in analysis and
50% time-saving in audit planning
reporting
33% time-saving in audit execution 100 hours saved per audit (or 12.5 days)
33% time-saving in audit review Net cost savings = £81,154 per annum
33% time-saving in follow up activities
Pentana Audit was the chosen product due to the flexibility it offered us to have
our existing process integrated into the process of the audit management system.
Caroline Griffiths, Senior Manager, Global Audit Corporate and Professional Practice at Heineken
Why Pentana Audit?
1. It is built by auditors for auditors
Benefit from expert support and insights from a team that knows the internal audit world
inside out.
We’ve brought together former internal auditors with decades of combined industry
experience to build a product that works for the specific needs of audit professionals
today. This means that rather than a bolt-on system with limited functionality, Pentana
Audit has been developed as an all-inclusive and dedicated solution to support the entire
audit lifecycle.
2. It provides a 360-degree view of internal audit activities
Harness the power of real-time data through business intelligence tools
that help you to understand exactly what is happening where in your
organisation.
With flexible and on-demand reporting capabilities, you can transform
internal audit into a decision-support system for senior executives,
providing them with live and accurate information to help them make the
right decisions at the right time.
Pentana Audit not only strengthens collaboration between stakeholders
by providing greater visibility but also helps to improve organisational
resilience through a risk-based and agile methodology.
3. It lets you focus on quality, not admin
Boost productivity, improve your audit strategy and reduce costs through
standardised workflows and powerful automation.
With consistent systems and processes, Pentana Audit brings together all
aspects of the audit cycle from annual planning to detailed risk
assessment and controls testing, action tracking and audit
committee reporting.
This makes it easier to improve the quality and accuracy of
internal audits whether they are conducted on-site or
remotely.
Our control has improved immeasurably. Because Pentana Audit is risk-driven, it
forces you to think about the risks at the outset of conducting a review, as well as
the risk mitigation strategies and the controls that are in place. The solution has
really helped us to ensure that we can maintain high and consistent quality
standards in all the work that we do.
Nigel Burbidge, Partner and Global Head of Risk Advisory Services at BDO
Agility and performance
Increase your audit maturity to not only enhance performance and be more adaptable to change but also
ensure that audits are more reliable and accurate. With Pentana Audit you can:
Streamline core internal audit Inform confident decision making with
processes live data
Remove admin headaches with a Support a consistent audit
paperless system methodology
Align internal audit with strategic Position internal audit as a strategic
organisational objectives asset
Prioritise audits based on risk Ensure compliance with SOX, ISO 31000,
COSO standards and the IIA guidelines
Key features
Project management Work paper management Impressive dashboards
• Capture objectives, scope and • Go paperless with your working • Display scores and trends for risks
more within workflows papers in a single system of and controls online
• Easily manage multiple, record • Allow control owners to monitor
overlapping and parallel audits • Display all goals, tests, criteria, and manage their obligations
• Manage actions and incidents samples, findings and evidence • Automatically email any changes
with tools for follow-up, • Use standard and custom to relevant people
deadlines, closure and more templates that automatically
synchronise with users
Pentana Audit has cut between 10% - 20% of the time we were spending conducting
our audits, allowing us to focus on additional aspects of each audit and, more
importantly, presenting us with more time in which to carry out additional audits.
Rick Walke, VP of Internal Audit and Risk Management, FORUM Credit Union
Risk and control management Quality analysis and reporting
• Create an unlimited number of risk registers • Create comprehensive, real-time reports capable of
• Define and assess specific risks and controls through being filtered in many ways to identify emerging
heat maps, risk exposure and control coverage trends
• Update and maintain a library of objectives, risks, • Save previously designed reports for future use
controls and tests • Communicate high-impact data and insights via
graphs or charts
Planning and scheduling Audit universe
• Risk-assess the audit universe with a set of defined • Manage auditable entities and organisational
and weighted criteria structure centrally
• Gain total flexibility of provision • Configure the universe to your unique specifications
• Easily identify priority areas and any resourcing issues • Map audit processes to entities
See Pentana Audit in action to discover how
your internal audit team can benefit from
real-time assurance, agile auditing
and powerful automation today.
Request a free demo
With Pentana Audit, we are saving approximately 100 working hours per audit,
and with an average of 12 audits every year, that is an astounding saving.
Internal Audit Director, Longwood University
Services and support
Ideagen offers a comprehensive range of professional services to ensure that your Pentana Audit
implementation goes as smoothly as possible, with minimum impact on your valuable resource
and maximum return from your software investment. This includes:
• Software installation and deployment, if hosted by Ideagen
• System consultancy and configuration
• ‘Champion’ training for the key implementation team
• Unlimited access to our Technical Support team
• Free online resources, including a knowledge base, user forum and user groups to enable you to get
the most out of the system
Whether you choose our on-premise or hosted application, Ideagen will work with you every step
of the way to ensure that your unique requirements are uncovered, understood by both parties
and met by the proposed solution.
About Ideagen
Ideagen plc develops software that helps to solve complex problems in highly
regulated industries including banking and finance, government and public
sector, building and construction, telecommunications, energy, and
manufacturing.
With more than 20 years of experience and success in the global regulatory
environment, we have earned our customers’ trust by building long-term
relationships to meet and exceed their audit, risk and compliance
management goals.
We are committed to continually improving the quality of our products, the
environmental impact of our operations and the security of the information
that we safeguard. This commitment is demonstrated by our certifications to
ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 27001.
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