Francophone statutory audit had no tool of its own
A statutory audit engagement combines two requirements that often pull against each other: the international rigour of the ISA standards — ISA 200, 300, 315, 700 — and the specifics of local accounting frameworks. SYSCOHADA Revised and AUDCIF for OHADA companies, the Plan Comptable Général for France, the Belgian PCMN, IFRS for subsidiaries of international groups. Market platforms cover one or the other, rarely both: the francophone auditor ends up keeping lead schedules in a spreadsheet alongside a tool that does not speak their chart of accounts.
HOLOS covers the full value chain of an engagement — from engagement letter to general report — in a francophone environment. The SYSCOHADA mapping is native, not a translation layer laid over an Anglo-Saxon model.
We built it because we needed it. Our CISA and CIA-certified auditors run their IT audit and ISA 315 / 330 co-engagements on it with statutory auditors. Every friction they hit on an engagement becomes a fix in the product — a short loop few software vendors can offer.