Budget an audit by area of the file, book the team against that budget, and record the time as the work happens. When a job runs over, you already know where, who and why.
That is a timesheet being filled in.
The planner for a fictional eleven-person firm. Every screen on this site is the real product.
AuditNavi was designed by audit partners and audit managers who are currently in practice. Every time recording system we tried was either built for somebody else (solicitors, agencies, consultants), or was a general system with so many features that it became confusing, and eventually we stopped using it.
Nothing available could record time at the click of a button and, as that time is recorded, compare it live against the budget, so you can see at any point how a job is tracking. And nothing let the reason be entered in plain sight when more time is booked than was budgeted.
AuditNavi captures chargeable time the way an audit is actually run: by area of the file, by stage, by person, against a budget a partner approved. That gives every audit team the data it should have for:
All of it within a couple of clicks.
| Generic time recording | AuditNavi |
|---|---|
| Hours per client. | Hours per area of the file, per person, against the budget for that area. |
| “The job is over budget.” | “Systems and controls is over by 2.4 hours. Reason: information late, access to the new stock system came after planning.” |
| A calendar showing who is busy. | A planner that draws down each person's budgeted days, by planning, fieldwork and completion. |
| Staff rebuild the week from memory on Friday afternoon. | Staff start, stop and switch a timer. The timesheet is already written. |
Four screens do most of the work, and they all read from the same job. The Harbourline Foods audit you see booked in the planner is the same one budgeted, recorded and reported on below.
Your people down the side, every working day across the top. Click a free day, or press and drag across several, and pick the job. Drag a bar's edge to give it more days. Drag the bar itself to move it to another week, or to another person.
This is the same Harbourline Foods audit. Hours for each person against each area of the file, with recorded time filling in underneath as the team works. Priya's 112 hours here are the 16 days she is booked for in the planner above.
Staff start a timer on the job and area they are working on with one click, and switch when they change jobs.
Say a manager asks a senior to help review a set of accounts. The senior opens the timer, picks that job and starts it. When they have finished, it is one click to get back to what they were doing.
If there are gaps at the end of the week where the timer was not used, they can be filled in with a couple of clicks.
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Clockify and ClickUp are good general tools, and both can track time against a budget. What neither has is anything that knows what an audit is.
| AuditNavi | Clockify | ClickUp | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Made for | Audit firms. | Any team that tracks time. | Any team that manages projects and tasks. |
| Time is recorded against | A client, a job and an area of the audit file. | A project, and a task if you set them up. | A task. |
| The budget | Hours for each person on each area of the file, approved by a partner. | A time or money budget for the project, on the Pro plan. | Time estimates and hour budgets on tasks and projects. |
| Planning the team | Days booked per person as planning, fieldwork or completion, checked against the budget. | A scheduling timeline showing who has capacity, on the Pro plan. | Tasks assigned to people. |
| When work runs over | The area that overran, by how much, and the reason the manager recorded. | Progress shown against the project's budget. | Projects flagged as trending over their hours. |
| Built around an audit | Areas of the file, audit stages, a target signing date, a timetable for the client. | No. | No. |
From each product's own published feature pages, October 2026. Clockify and ClickUp are trademarks of their respective owners.
No. They start a timer when they start work and switch it when they change job or area. The week builds itself from that. If they forget, they can add or correct time on the day's timeline, and a weekly grid is there for anyone who prefers typing hours.
Because the plan is what you intended and the timesheet is what happened. If the two were the same record, you would lose the one thing that explains an overrun. The planner does make recording quicker: each person sees the jobs they are booked on today and starts the timer with one click.
It is built around audit: areas of the file, planning, fieldwork and completion, a target signing date. But departments and positions are yours to set up, so other teams in the firm can plan and record time in it too.
Staff see their own time. Managers also see budgets, charge-out rates and fees on jobs. Partners and admins also see cost, salary and margin. The rules are enforced on the server, not just hidden on the screen.
Nothing. The charge-out and cost rates in force are saved on each entry as it is recorded, so a promotion or a rate change only affects time from that day on.
Email hello@auditnavi.com. We set up your firm and invite your first admin. From there you add your people and clients yourself, or import them from Excel.
Tell us a little about your firm and we will walk you through AuditNavi on a call: a job budgeted, the team booked, a week of time recorded.
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