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Introducing OnPoint AUP – Market release 2026.1.0

We're pleased to announce the market release of OnPoint AUP. OnPoint AUP is Caseware's cloud-native solution for agreed-upon procedures (AUP) engagements.

OnPoint AUP helps practitioners manage AUP engagements in Caseware Cloud, from acceptance to the signed accountant's report. It supports a consistent workflow for documenting procedures, findings and reporting requirements.

By bringing acceptance, documentation, reporting and standards guidance into one workflow, OnPoint AUP helps teams reduce manual effort and keep engagement documentation consistent.

Key platform capabilities in the OnPoint AUP market release

Standards-based engagement workflow

OnPoint AUP supports AT-C Section 205, Agreed-Upon Procedures Engagements, and AT-C Section 105, Concepts Common to All Attestation Engagements.

Checklist questions include built-in guidance that links to the relevant standards paragraphs. The workflow also supports practitioners working under SSAE 18 or SSAE 19.

AT-C 205 / SSAE 18 Full coverage of acceptance, procedures, and reporting requirements

SSAE 19 Standards-specific conditional logic suppresses inapplicable questions

Guided engagement acceptance

AUP-001 guides the engagement team through the preconditions for accepting an AUP engagement. The checklist helps practitioners confirm that the procedures are appropriate for the intended purpose, written acknowledgment has been obtained from the engaging party and the engagement letter includes the required elements.

Conditional logic shows follow-up questions and documentation fields only when they apply. This keeps the checklist focused for straightforward engagements while still supporting more complex work.

AUP-001 Engagement Acceptance, Continuance & Set-Up document showing the Acceptance, Continuance & Set-Up checklist with questions about engagement type, standards and subject matter.

Sample engagement letter

AUP-002 provides a sample engagement letter that uses information entered in AUP-001. Key details, including the engaging party, responsible party, subject matter and identified procedures, can flow from the checklist into the letter.

This reduces manual entry and helps keep the engagement letter aligned with the engagement record.

Yellow Book independence

AUP-001.04 is a new form that supports engagements performed under Government Auditing Standards. It guides the engagement team through the Yellow Book independence requirements, which go beyond the standard AT-C independence considerations.

Completion of AUP-001.04 is confirmed in AUP-001 as part of the GAGAS planning questions.

AUP-001.2 Yellow Book Independence document showing the General Independence Requirements section with checklist questions about GAGAS independence standards and a Team Independence Confirmations table.

Procedures and findings workspace

AUP-003 provides a structured workspace for documenting agreed-upon procedures and findings. Practitioners can describe each procedure and record the findings obtained from it.

The workspace supports engagements with a small number of custom procedures and larger engagements with more structured procedure sets.

AUP-003 Performing the Agreed-Upon Procedures document showing the Performing The Procedures section with fields for documenting findings including evidence obtained and exceptions for each procedure.

Concluding checklist and sample accountant's report

AUP-004 guides the engagement team through wrap-up steps before the report is issued. AUP-005 generates the sample accountant's report using information entered across the engagement.

The report can include the responsible party, restricted use language, agreed-upon threshold language and other variable content based on answers in AUP-001.

AUP-004 Concluding & Reporting document showing the Concluding section with checklist questions about exceptions, restrictions, fraud, representation letters and lockdown readiness.

The Sample AUP Report for AUP engagements showing the GAGAS Compliance Statement, GAGAS Purpose and Distribution Statement and a sample report text area with placeholder fields.

Report checklist

AUP-005.10 helps the engagement team verify that the sample accountant's report includes the required elements before the engagement is finalized. The checklist covers items such as the title, addressee, specified parties, findings listing, restricted use statement, signature and date.

Government Auditing Standards support

This release introduces built-in support for engagements performed under Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS), also known as the Yellow Book.

GAGAS engagements include additional requirements for independence, engagement letter content, report distribution, CPE compliance and report language. OnPoint AUP integrates these requirements into the engagement workflow.

All GAGAS content is controlled by a single trigger question. If the engagement is not performed under GAGAS, the related questions do not appear and the standard workflow remains unchanged.

Planning and acceptance

A new Government Auditing Standards section has been added to AUP-001. When GAGAS applies, the workflow includes questions about:

  • Completion of the Yellow Book independence form (AUP-001.04)

  • GAGAS references in the engagement letter

  • Limited report distribution for classified or sensitive content

  • Responsibility for report distribution

  • CPE compliance for each engagement team member

Engagement letter

AUP-002 includes a conditional GAGAS section that appears when the engagement is performed under Government Auditing Standards. This section adds the required GAGAS language to the sample engagement letter.

Concluding

AUP-004 includes additional content for GAGAS engagements. The checklist addresses noncompliance with provisions of contracts and grant agreements. It also includes report language review questions for the GAGAS compliance statement, purpose statement and distribution language.

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