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Audit and risk

CaseWare

End-to-end cloud audit platform covering planning, fieldwork, and reporting.

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Overview

With over 23,000 organizations across 130 countries, CaseWare runs the full audit lifecycle for small and mid-sized assurance firms, from risk-based planning and guided fieldwork through journal entry analytics and financial statement preparation. Teams across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and Europe use it as their primary audit platform.

The core product, CaseWare Audit, provides risk-based planning with pre-built content that auto-populates objectives, risks, and procedures from the engagement profile. Team members can work on the same file at the same time, with notes and sign-offs updating in real time. Journal entry analytics are built in, so firms do not need a separate data tool to flag anomalies.

Caseware Verity, the platform's AI layer, embeds engagement-aware intelligence directly in the audit workflow, with agents that automate time-intensive work such as disclosure checklists. CaseWare Validate is a separate module that automates financial statement validation to catch disclosure inconsistencies. CaseWare Extractly handles vouching and reconciliation inside Excel for firms that prefer to stay in a spreadsheet-adjacent workflow.

US-facing practices can access DAS Audit (formerly OnPoint DAS), the AICPA-aligned Dynamic Assurance Solution, which generates audit procedures directly from assessed risks.

Pricing is not published. CaseWare uses an enterprise licensing model; contact the vendor for a quote based on firm size and product selection.

The platform is available in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and several European countries, with localized versions in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, and Danish. It suits small to mid-sized audit firms that want a structured, standards-aligned platform for their assurance work.

Key facts

Starting price
Custom pricing
Pricing model
Custom
Free trial
No
Free tier
No
Deployment
Cloud
Geography
US, UK, CA, AU, EU, Global
Founded
1988
Support
Phone, Chat, Email, Knowledge Base
Languages
English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Chinese, Japanese
Works with
Excel
Last checked
2026-08-31

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • Small to mid-sized audit firms that want one platform for risk, fieldwork, journal testing, and reporting.
  • Firms on US auditing standards that need AICPA-aligned audit procedures (DAS Audit, formerly OnPoint DAS).
  • Audit teams that prefer Excel-adjacent workflows for vouching and reconciliation (CaseWare Extractly).

Cons

  • Practices with no audit or assurance work. CaseWare is built around the audit lifecycle.
  • Firms that want published pricing or a free trial. CaseWare is enterprise-licensed and sales-led.
  • Solo practitioners with very low audit volume. CaseWare suits firms with structured assurance teams.

Pricing

No public pricing. CaseWare quotes directly.

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Frequently asked questions

What is CaseWare and how does it differ from a tool like DataSnipper?
CaseWare is a full audit platform that replaces the Excel-and-Word-based workpaper environment most firms grew up with. DataSnipper is a plugin that adds AI features to your existing Excel workpapers without replacing the environment. CaseWare suits firms ready to standardize audit methodology across teams and offices. DataSnipper suits firms that want a productivity lift without changing how staff work day-to-day. The two solve different problems: workflow standardization versus productivity acceleration.
How much does CaseWare cost?
CaseWare prices on application with annual contracts and per-seat pricing. Expect a meaningful gap between list price and what you negotiate; the quote depends on team size, modules, and onboarding scope. Get quotes from at least two vendors before signing, and ask explicitly about the cost of adding a junior, the cost of a second team in a different office, and what happens at renewal. Annual price increases are a known feature, not a surprise.
Which firm sizes is CaseWare designed for?
Mid-tier firms upwards. CaseWare's value comes from standardizing methodology across multiple teams and engagements, which means a 2-partner firm running 30 small audits per year sees less benefit than a 20-partner firm running 300. Below a certain team size, the platform overhead exceeds the time saved. The sweet spot is firms with 50 to 500 staff doing structured assurance work where multiple seniors and managers need to collaborate on the same engagement file.
Does CaseWare support ISA and GAAS?
Yes, both. CaseWare ships methodology templates aligned with ISA (used in the UK, EU, Australia, Canada) and GAAS (US). Firms can customize the underlying methodology to match their own engagement approach without losing the templated audit-trail benefits. Confirm with the vendor that the specific country variant you need (ISA UK, ISA Australia, ISSA, GAAS) is in the package you are buying, since some methodology layers are licensed separately.
Is switching to CaseWare worth it if my team works in Excel today?
It depends on whether your bottleneck is methodology consistency or staff productivity. If different teams in your firm structure their audit files differently, document risk in different ways, and produce audit reports of inconsistent quality, CaseWare solves that. If your bottleneck is individual auditor productivity inside the Excel-based files, DataSnipper or a similar plugin is the lower-friction path. Many firms run both: CaseWare for the methodology, DataSnipper inside CaseWare for the productivity lift.
Is CaseWare available outside North America?
Yes. CaseWare is available in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, the EU, and more broadly across global markets, with product support in nine languages including French, German, Spanish, and Chinese. It is quoted by sales rather than sold with published regional pricing.
Does CaseWare offer a free trial?
No. CaseWare does not offer a free trial or published pricing. It is enterprise-licensed and sales-led, with cost depending on firm size, the specific modules a firm uses such as DAS Audit or Extractly, and the number of engagement files processed each year.

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