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title: Create a walkthrough
description: After defining a control, audit managers create walk throughs that will be conducted to observe and provide documented evidence of whether the associated control is operating correctly.
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product: Audit Management
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last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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# Create a walkthrough

After defining a control, audit managers create walk throughs that will be conducted to observe and provide documented evidence of whether the associated control is operating correctly.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_audit.admin and sn\_audit.manager

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Audit** > **Engagements** > **All Engagements**.

2.  Open the engagement for the audit task you want to create.

    Assign audit tasks to engagement in one of the following states:

    -   Validate
    -   Fieldwork
    -   Awaiting approval
3.  In the **Audit Tasks** Related List, click **New**.

4.  In the Audit Tasks Interceptor, click **Walkthrough**.

5.  On the form, fill in the fields.

<table id="table_nht_mjj_mv"><thead><tr><th>

Field

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Number

</td><td>

Unique identification number.

</td></tr><tr><td>

State

</td><td>

-   Open
-   Work in Progress
-   Review
-   Closed Complete
-   Closed Incomplete
-   Closed Skipped


</td></tr><tr><td>

Parent

</td><td>

Parent audit task.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Assigned to

</td><td>

User assigned to this walkthrough.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Short description

</td><td>

Brief description of the walkthrough.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Description

</td><td>

Detailed explanation of the walkthrough.

</td></tr><tr><td class="sub-head" colspan="2">

Schedule

</td></tr><tr><td>

Planned start date

</td><td>

Intended date the walkthrough should begin.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Planned end date

</td><td>

Intended date the walkthrough should end.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Planned duration

</td><td>

Expected duration of this walkthrough. As with actual duration, the planned duration shows total activity time and takes the walkthrough schedule into consideration.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Actual start date

</td><td>

Date that this walkthrough began.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Actual end date

</td><td>

Date that this walkthrough ended.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Actual duration

</td><td>

Duration of the walkthrough from start to end.

</td></tr><tr><td class="sub-head" colspan="2">

Walkthrough

</td></tr><tr><td>

Primary Contact

</td><td>

User to contact for this walkthrough.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Other Contacts

</td><td>

Other users to contact for this walkthrough, if the primary contact is unavailable.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Execution Steps

</td><td>

Detail the activities to be performed during the walkthrough.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Explanation

</td><td>

Intended purpose of the walkthrough.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Additional Information

</td><td>

Additional information the user conducting the walkthrough needs to be aware of.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Results

</td><td>

Details of what transpired during the walkthrough.

</td></tr><tr><td class="sub-head" colspan="2">

Activity

</td></tr><tr><td>

Additional comments

</td><td>

Customer-viewable comments.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Work notes

</td><td>

Comments that are viewable by the audit manager and audit manager.

</td></tr><tr><td class="sub-head" colspan="2">

Confidentiality

</td></tr><tr><td>

Confidential

</td><td>

Option to enable confidentiality of the record. Only the assigned confidential users or confidential groups of users can access the record. For more information on confidential option, see [Confidentiality flag for audit and compliance records](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/audit-management/confidentiality-flag-audit-pc.md).

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>6.  Click **Submit**.


**Parent Topic:**[Manage engagements](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/audit-management/c_Engagements.md)