Under this agreement approximately 2,000 audit programs maintained on the AuditNet Internet site will be available at no charge to CCH TeamMate (TeamMate) users in the TeamMate TeamStore format.

"Internal audit professionals worldwide will benefit from this distribution agreement between CCH and AuditNet," said AuditNet President and Founder, Jim Kaplan, CIA. "The mission of AuditNet is to leverage the power of the Internet to benefit the audit profession and coupling one of the largest collections of audit programs in the world with TeamMate, the Industry’s leading Audit Management tool, will drive significant efficiencies into audit departments around the world."

Over 60,000 auditors use TeamMate for audit process efficiency including risk assessment, scheduling and timekeeping, workpaper preparation and review, report generation, and audit issue tracking.

The TeamMate suite consists of five products that can be used independently or with other components of the suite. Those products are: TeamMate EWP, electronic workpaper system; TeamCentral, audit issues tracking; TeamRisk, risk assessment tool; TeamSchedule, advanced scheduling; and TeamMate TEC, time and expense tracking.

"There is a tremendous amount of knowledge contained in over 10,000 audit steps on the AuditNet Web site, however sifting through this document-based content can be time consuming," said Mike Gowell, vice president and general manager of CCH TeamMate. "By making this content available in CCH TeamMate TeamStore format, TeamMate users can search across thousands of audit steps and programs to instantaneously find and import exactly those steps they need into their audit."