Audit software for audit firms in the UAE

Inspection readiness is now a daily job

Our research found that the UAE's Ministry of Economy and Tourism, the Capital Market Authority and the DFSA began joint inspections of firms' ISQM 1 implementation in 2026. Whatever your regulator, the questions are similar: how do you accept clients, confirm independence, supervise and review work, resolve review notes, and assemble the file on time?

Stowbill answers those questions as you work. Each action is written to an activity trail the database itself refuses to edit, and the inspection pack exports the whole story of an engagement in one click.

What Stowbill gives a UAE audit firm

• Stage gates from pre-engagement to archive, with partner approval of each stage move and partner-only waivers with a recorded reason.
• A client document portal: one private link per engagement, no client login, accept or send back each upload, and automatic reminders.
• Trial balance import, lead schedules with materiality and movement flags, booked and unadjusted misstatements, and draft IFRS statements.
• E-signature for engagement letters, management representation letters and reports, with an emailed one-time code and a tamper-evident certificate. UAE Federal Decree-Law 46 of 2021 governs electronic transactions and signatures.
• The ISA 230 file lock: the file becomes read-only 60 days after the report date.
• A firm-wide ISQM 1 module with risks, monitoring, deficiencies, annual independence and the annual evaluation.

AED billing with VAT

Build invoices from approved time and fixed fees in AED. Add a 5% VAT rate and Stowbill prints a document headed Tax Invoice with your TRN, the client's details, sequential numbering, line-level tax and totals. Export issued invoices as CSV for your accounting system.

A note on CaseWare in the Gulf

Many UAE firms already use CaseWare, which lists a UAE distributor. Stowbill can sit alongside it: run the workflow, client requests, reviews, signatures and quality evidence in Stowbill, and upload working papers prepared elsewhere. Smaller firms often use Stowbill's own trial balance and lead schedules instead.

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