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Audit analytics for enterprises

KNIME powers audit teams across industries

  • Move from point-in-time audits to continuous monitoring with automated workflows and real-time alerts.Move from point-in-time audits to continuous monitoring with automated workflows and real-time alerts.
  • Expand audit scope across all systems — ERP, CRM, cloud, and legacy — for full-population testing and broader risk coverage.Expand audit scope across all systems — ERP, CRM, cloud, and legacy — for full-population testing and broader risk coverage.
  • Ensure transparency and explainability across all data, models, and workflows — fully traceable and SOX and regulator-ready.Ensure transparency and explainability across all data, models, and workflows — fully traceable and SOX and regulator-ready.

Success stories

Use Cases

Real-world applications of data analytics in audit services.

Audit Planning

  • Predictive Risk Scoring
  • Automated Audit Planning Documentation
  • AI-Enhanced Audit Planning
  • Stratified Proportional Sampling

Audit Testing

  • Continuous Audit Testing
  • Journal Entry Testing
  • Anomaly Detection/Benford’s Law
  • Bank Reconciliation
  • Duplicate Invoice Testing
  • Suspicious Date Range Testing
  • Split Transactions Analysis
  • Expense Policy Violation Testing
  • Aged Receivables Testing
  • Revenue Recognition Testing
  • Round-Number Transactions Review
  • Payroll Testing
  • Document Review Automation
  • Document Comparison Automation

Audit Reporting

  • SOX Reporting
  • Automated Audit Reporting

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Why KNIME for Audit analytics

Continuous, scalable audit automation

Continuous, scalable audit automation

  • Automate everything from data access and blending to control testing, exception analysis, and risk reporting.
  • Deliver continuous monitoring with scheduled workflows and real-time alerts — not just point-in-time audits.
  • Deploy insights as reports, dashboards, or data apps — with native integrations for Power BI, Tableau, Excel, and more.
Full transparency and auditability

Full transparency and auditability

  • Visual workflows show exactly how data is transformed and analyzed — fully transparent and defensible.
  • Maintain full detail and drill-down across complex audit data — never rely on black-box models.
  • Satisfy regulatory and board expectations for explainability and traceability.

Enterprise-scale platform for modern audits

Enterprise-scale platform for modern audits

  • Scale to any audit scope or size — from business unit to global enterprise.
  • Work with any data — structured or unstructured — across any system.
  • Leverage advanced AI and machine learning to enhance audit insights and risk detection.

Future ready with agentic AI and automation

Future ready with agentic AI and automation

  • Automate routine tasks and advanced control testing with Agentic AI — freeing auditors for higher-value work.
  • Stay ahead of regulatory expectations for AI in audit with transparent, explainable workflows.
  • Benefit from continuous innovation via KNIME’s open-source community and AI blueprints.

How IGT Internal Audit Powers Systematic and Reproducible Workflows with KNIME

Atanas will discuss how to design continuous data pipelines and analytics workflows in your internal audit department, emphasizing seamless integration, effective collaboration, and reproducibility. As well as how to make the most of local LLMs to systematically create helpful audit logs of prompts and outputs. Finally, Atanas will discuss how KNIME Analytics Platform and KNIME Business Hub enable rapid development-to-production cycles enhanced collaboration, versioning, and automation.

Empowering Auditors with GenAI

Grab’s internal audit team uses GenAI and KNIME to automate audits, empower auditors, and streamline compliance across 3.5 billion transactions, 239 auditable units, and eight countries through self-service analytics, AI-powered risk assessments, document translation, and chatbot-driven audit insights.

How ING is using KNIME to transform its audit process with automation and AI

The internal audit team at ING shared how they automate and streamline their audit process, reducing data retrieval times from 8 weeks to instant access, enabling 400 auditors to perform analytics efficiently, integrating audit evidence directly into their management system, and ensuring adaptability to evolving business needs while maintaining GDPR compliance.

Our Experience with KNIME as E-Auditors

Pascal and Pieter from the Belgian Ministry of Finance Special Tax Inspectorate talk about how KNIME makes their lives as e-auditors easier. They share the inside scoop on the nodes that helped them move towards verifying entire transaction logs vs only samples, and how they anonymize data, work with different file types, and use Python, R, and other languages in conjunction with KNIME.

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KNIME for Finance Examples

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