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title: Create an audit task activity
description: After defining a control, audit managers create activities that explore and provide documented evidence of whether the associated control is operating correctly.
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product: Audit Management
classification: audit-management
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last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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# Create an audit task activity

After defining a control, audit managers create activities that explore and provide documented evidence of whether the associated control is operating correctly.

## Before you begin

Role required: The roles required for Audit Management are sn\_audit.admin and sn\_audit.manager.

Following are the roles required for Lite Audit:

-   sn\_grc\_advanced.evidence\_reader
-   sn\_grc\_advanced.evidence\_requester
-   sn\_grc\_advanced.evidence\_responder
-   sn\_grc\_advanced.evidence\_admin

## 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
3.  In the **Audit Tasks** related list, click **New**.

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

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 activity.

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

Short description

</td><td>

Brief description of the activity.

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

Description

</td><td>

Detailed explanation of the activity.

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

Schedule

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

Planned start date

</td><td>

Intended date the activity should begin.

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

Planned end date

</td><td>

Intended date the activity should end.

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

Planned duration

</td><td>

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

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

Actual start date

</td><td>

Date that this activity began.

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

Actual end date

</td><td>

Date that this activity ended.

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

Actual duration

</td><td>

Actual duration of the project from project start to project closure.

</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)