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Fieldguide Product Update - October 2024

Client On-Time Performance Insights

Leverage Fieldguide’s On-Time Performance Insights to facilitate data-driven conversations with clients about Request completion. These reports are designed to foster greater transparency and alignment, while also supporting on-time performance improvement and (where necessary) adjusted engagement fees. Available for users with Premium Fieldguide Insights.

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Additional Updates

Fieldguide AI

  • Copilot Chat sessions now support up to 30 documents – with support for more documents coming soon!

  • AI Actions now utilize even more powerful AI designed to improve quality and accuracy for text-based actions and basic math.

  • AI Document Annotator in private beta. Fieldguide is collaborating with beta customers on an advanced AI capability to automatically identify key information in client documents and suggest annotations.

Fieldguide Insights

  • Milestone Status: Advanced Filtering enables you to efficiently manage engagement progress with powerful new filters! Learn more.

  • Team Member Activity dashboard to highlight your team’s activities within client engagements. Available for users with Premium Insights. Learn more.

  • Engagement Milestone Status dashboard to enable cross-engagement visibility across your portfolio of engagements. Available for users with Premium Insights.

  • Configurable Insights Permissions to enable expanded access to individuals on your team. Available for users with Premium Insights.

Financial Audit

  • Add Trial Balance values to other FG sheets allows users to templatize different Workpapers at the firm-level and auto-populate them based on standardized Trial Balance data within an engagement.

  • Display Section totals in Sheets allows users to more easily see the total of different Audit Areas, helpful for analytic review & to tie out work performed to the Financial Statements.

  • Replace existing Trial Balance provides an easy utility to seamlessly update Trial Balance information you are working on when a client gives you a new version.

  • Add new account allows users to manually add additional Trial Balance accounts for a client, often used for disclosure purposes when preparing financial statements.

  • Read-only Trial Balance protects the integrity of financial information handled by Fieldguide to ensure client data stays in balance.

Engagement Management

  • Engagement Lead Filtering on the Engagements screen to improve efficiency and easy of use. Learn more.

  • Custom Engagement IDs can now be (optionally) added to engagements during creation for teams that want to maintain consistent IDs between Fieldguide and other systems. Learn more.

  • HITRUST requirement scoping enhancement is now available to accelerate HITRUST workflows. Learn more.

  • See what’s changed on a sheet row when viewing tasks. This feature is now available in beta to help streamline reviewer workflows.

  • Document Sign off Dashboard now shows when a document is associated with sheet row. Learn more.

Sheets

  • Control Activity, Key Reference, Formula, Document Reference, and Document columns are now available in New Sheets mode!

  • Greater consistency when navigating between Standard Sheets and New Sheets ensuring column width is preserved between both experiences.

  • Columns preserved during import. Imports now include all columns in your upload sheet, not just the ones in the import template.

  • Filter the Documents column using text. Easily find the document you need using a word or phrase.

Documents & Reporting

  • Report Builder: Merge Table Cells allows you to automatically merge cells with matching contents to improve the readability of your reports. Learn more.

  • Expanded File Automation Naming Rules automatically renames copied files with a Request ID to streamline your workflows. Learn more.

  • Keyword document search allows you to search for documents using keywords (not just document names) making it much easier and efficient to locate key documents and information.

  • PDF merging & conversion. You can now convert documents into PDF format and merge multiple documents into a single PDF directly within the Fieldguide platform. These utilities can be accessed directly from the Documents area of the platform. Learn more.

Platform

  • Automated engagement, team, and client setup is now available via Fieldguide APIs. Learn more.

  • Fieldguide APIs now support request comments to enable more collaborative integrated experiences.

  • Client deletion is now restricted to System Admins to ensure important deletion actions are reserved for those with the appropriate role. Learn more.

  • “Invited” user status to more easily identify users who’ve not yet logged in to Fieldguide.

  • System Admin role. This new role helps you limit access to sensitive system permissions in Fieldguide, including data deletion abilities. Learn more.

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