Digital Audit Services

EY's technology and data driven digital audit has been used across all EY audits globally for over 5 years. It is fundamental to our delivery of a collaborative, risk focused audit. The digital-first audit approach offers several key benefits:

Confidence: By utilising 100% population testing, organisations can achieve greater confidence in their audit results. This approach allows for a comprehensive analysis of data, ensuring that insights are derived from the entire dataset rather than a sample.

Certainty: The use of data-driven methodologies provides certainty in accounting processes, ensuring that financial reporting is accurate and reliable across all transactions.

Clarity: The digital-first approach facilitates interactive and visual analyses, enabling auditors to identify trends and anomalies effectively. This clarity leads to better questioning and deeper insights into financial processes.

Broader Insights: Organisations can gain valuable feedback and insights, including benchmarking against industry standards, which enhances overall business performance.

Efficiency: The principle of "Test Once, Rely Many" minimises duplication of work across different reporting areas, leading to increased efficiency.

Reduced Burden: By streamlining the audit process, the digital-first approach lessens the burden on personnel, allowing them to focus on more strategic tasks.

A big element of the EY Digital Audit is access to 100% of client data. Consequently, a strong business reputation depends on a robust data extraction, protection and information security program. We view data protection and information security as fundamental components of doing business. Our team’s ability to provide a seamless, consistent, high-quality audit worldwide is supported by a well-articulated data protection and information security strategy.

We protect information assets, personal data and client information whenever and wherever they are created, processed, transmitted or stored. We maintain effective governance and ongoing compliance with applicable domestic and international regulatory standards.

The implementation of our data protection and information security programs and practice is managed by two distinct yet aligned groups: the Global Data Protection network and the Global Information Security organisation. Their mission is to protect the information assets of our organisation and EY clients from unauthorised collection, retention, use, disclosure, modification or destruction. This is accomplished through:

• Appropriate policies, standards, procedure and guidelines
• Technological and administrative controls
• Certification processes
• Periodic audits
• Ongoing training and awareness efforts

Digital audit strategies help organisations strengthen their resilience by understanding how well their current digital capabilities support business goals. By assessing digital maturity across areas like automation, data use, cloud adoption and cyber security, businesses can uncover gaps, manage risk and make informed decisions about where to invest next. This provides a clear path for digital transformation that’s practical, measurable and aligned to long-term resilience.