What is the Audit page for?

The year's audit, worked from one place. A run is opened for a year-end and every company with a Xero connection joins it; the run holds the group position, each company's working papers (up to 32 numbered papers, built from the synced ledger and Xero's own year-end reports), the group papers that lay one paper across every company, the auditor's queries, confirmations and walkthroughs, and the filings that close the year. The Audit door lands on the run in progress; older years are a click away. Status everywhere is derived — a paper is complete when it agrees and its sources were read, a stage follows the run's facts — never a tick. You enter: New run: the year-end, a label, the audit firm and contact (offered from last year's run). Which papers apply to which company, where the data cannot decide; On a paper: what only a person knows — the comparatives, the typed figures (a provider's statement, lease terms, facilities), evidence attached, commentary on rows that need explaining, the sign-off; answers to the auditor's queries, in place; On Filings & close: the signed accounts and the CT600 the accountant filed, dropped onto the run as Final with the date they went in; the close itself, when the checklist allows it; A stage override, with a reason, when the facts are wrong about where the audit stands — and Follow the facts again to clear it. Saral fills: The packs: Prepare pulls Xero's year-end reports verbatim (trial balance, P&L, balance sheet, aged listings), the bank statements Xero holds and the payment history since, watermarked so a second run re-reads only what changed — by itself every night for every open run; Evidence that reads itself: a bank statement's closing balance, a CT600's losses carried forward, payroll, pension, VAT and CIS reports agreed month by month to the ledger; a read that failed says so; The Next card — the one thing to do now and the two after it — the gauge of companies closed out, each paper's Complete / Review / Missing / N/A, and the stage: Planning → Fieldwork → Queries → Filing → Closed, from packs issued, queries open or answered, finals marked and filings recorded; The group papers (directors' pay, related parties, leases, HP, corporation tax, provisional accounts, intercompany, WIP, going concern and more), cached and rebuilt when an input changes; the tax at the year-end as an estimate for the provision; Companies House's record of what was submitted. It produces: Each company's pack as one workbook (a sheet per paper, evidence listed), frozen as an issued version for the auditor and compared with the next; every group paper as Excel; the adjustments summary of every year-end journal; Year-end journals drafted from the auditor's provisional accounts and posted to Xero on approval; the statutory documents on the shelf shared with Signed Accounts; the run's timeline and the auditor's own seat, granted per run. Where the settings live: The financial year-end the run defaults to is Settings → Organisation → Financial year. Who may open and work a run is the Admin and Accounts roles; an outside auditor's access is granted per run behind the header gear. The statutory documents a run records are the same shelf as Accounts → Signed Accounts — one upload is visible in both. The nightly Prepare and the monthly refresh of every open run are the code's schedule; Refresh from Xero on a pack re-pulls one company's year-end reports on demand. A year nobody is auditing can still be looked at under Open a pack outside a run.