Horizon

Horizon is an innovative audit service that employs technically-advanced audit software. It uses a Windows-based framework and methodology. It helps us capture information about your business and improves our understanding of how the business operates. This information is invaluable to the resulting audit, increasing its focus and insight. It significantly changes the way in which we organize and perform audits. The service looks in more depth at the commercial issues that flow from the audit and the business risks that are of real importance to you.

Horizon is founded in state-of-the-art technology and is a proprietary method designed to meet the needs of companies of all kinds. Horizon enhances the way in which audits are performed and communicated. It complies with International Standards on Auditing and is updated as new standards are issued. It uses two proprietary software applications.

Voyager

All Grant Thornton International member firms apply the Horizon methodology using Voyager, our proprietary software tool. Using Voyager, audit teams identify financial statement risks and link them to the processes and internal controls that you have established to address those risks. This enables our audit teams to tailor an audit response that is appropriate to the assessed risks. Voyager also generates audit programs for 16 different industries that are customised for individual client situations and focused on your financial statement risk areas.

Voyager assists audit teams in documenting, evaluating and when appropriate, testing internal controls, As a result, it helps audit teams identify opportunities for strengthening internal controls.