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For Public Sector Internal Auditors
Audit like a rock star. Move like a track star.
ThirdLine helps local government internal audit teams turn ERP data into continuous assurance, audit-ready evidence, fraud signals, access reviews, and clear management action.
Built for public sector ERP data
No-code audit analytics
100% population testing
Audit Risk & Analytics
Nightly ERP Refresh
200+
Government ERP analytics across audit, finance, purchasing, vendors, payroll, P-Cards, and access.
Why this page exists
Built for the audit issues Government Auditors are already talking about.
We know you you care about AI, data reliability, SQL, internal controls, fraud, audit impact, ERP risk, and practical innovation. ThirdLine was built for that exact intersection: government audit work, messy ERP data, and the need to produce more assurance with limited staff.
✓Use AI and analytics responsibly while keeping auditor judgment at the center.
✓Review complete ERP populations instead of relying only on samples.
✓Turn exceptions into findings, recommendations, and follow-up evidence.
✓Give management clear visibility into control gaps without creating “gotcha” moments.
The audit reality
Internal audit is not short on ideas. It is short on capacity.
Most local government audit teams know where the risk lives. The hard part is getting the data, proving the issue, and building a repeatable process that does not require a custom spreadsheet every time.
ERP data is hard to reach
Audit teams often depend on IT, finance, custom SQL, exports, or one internal data person just to begin fieldwork.
Sampling misses patterns
Important issues can hide across vendors, payments, permissions, workflow, payroll, and P-Card activity.
Findings need follow-through
Audit impact grows when departments can see the same facts, understand the root cause, and act quickly.
The ThirdLine approach
Audit, report, and optimize ERP operations from one source of truth.
ThirdLine sits on top of public sector ERP data and turns complex transactions, workflows, audit logs, vendors, employees, permissions, and approvals into clear audit analytics.
No-code analytics
Nightly data refresh
Audit-ready detail
Department-level reporting
Risk-based review
Internal audit use cases
Start with the audits already on your plan.
ThirdLine gives audit teams a faster way to move from risk area to evidence, without building every test from scratch.
Vendor & AP Risk
Duplicate payments, duplicate vendors, stale vendors, employee-vendor matches, first payment after vendor changes, and payment anomalies.
P-Card Assurance
Split purchases, missing receipts, unusual merchants, weekend transactions, approval issues, and policy exceptions.
Roles & Permissions
Segregation of duties, terminated-user access, privilege creep, superusers, sensitive permissions, and role cleanup.
Procurement
Threshold risk, split requisitions, unusual purchase timing, first-time vendors, workflow gaps, and contract compliance indicators.
Payroll
Ghost employee indicators, duplicate bank accounts, high overtime, unusual pay changes, and terminated employees receiving pay.
Journal Entries
Manual entries, weekend postings, round-dollar entries, suspense accounts, unusual account combinations, and missing support.
From manual work to continuous assurance
Your new audit starting point.
Instead of spending weeks pulling, cleaning, joining, and testing ERP data, ThirdLine helps your team begin with risk-ranked exceptions and transaction-level detail.
1
Connect read-only ERP data
We work with your team to refresh the data needed for audit analytics.
2
Run government-specific analytics
Use prebuilt and configurable tests across AP, vendors, P-Cards, payroll, procurement, GL, and access.
3
Review exceptions by risk
Move from broad populations to the records most likely to matter.
4
Share clear evidence
Give management practical, department-level reporting that supports action and follow-up.
Practical AI, not AI theater
More leverage for auditors. Judgment stays with people.
ThirdLine uses analytics, automation, and AI-assisted workflows to help auditors move faster. The auditor still owns context, professional skepticism, evidence, recommendations, and final conclusions.
Explainable risk signals
Analytics are tied to audit objectives, control concerns, transaction detail, and repeatable review logic.
Human-in-the-loop review
Use technology to prioritize the work, then apply professional judgment where it matters most.
Audit impact
Turn exceptions into practical recommendations that help departments strengthen controls and reduce recurring issues.
Built by audit, analytics, and government ERP people
You get thought partners who understand public-sector data complexity.
Audit Analytics Expertise
Our team brings deep experience in local government audit analytics, data reliability, sampling, methods, and evidence-based review.
Government ERP Expertise
ThirdLine is purpose-built around the financial, purchasing, vendor, payroll, workflow, and access data that lives inside government ERP systems.
Public Sector Focus
We work with cities, counties, school districts, and public agencies that need audit-ready visibility without adding headcount.
Audit only offer
Bring us one audit area. We’ll show you what continuous assurance could look like.
Start small with a focused pilot area, then expand into a repeatable audit analytics program.
Vendor & AP
Duplicate payments, stale vendors, vendor changes, employee-vendor matches, and payment exceptions.
P-Card
Receipts, split purchases, unusual merchants, policy exceptions, approvals, and transaction testing.
ERP Access
Roles, permissions, terminated users, privilege creep, superusers, and segregation of duties.
Risk Assessment
Use ERP analytics to help prioritize audit plan areas and department-level risks.
FAQ
Questions internal auditors usually ask.
ThirdLine is designed for local government teams that need audit analytics without adding a full data engineering team.
Is this only for finance teams?
No. ThirdLine supports finance, IT, management, and internal audit. This page is focused on internal audit use cases.
Do we need a data analyst on staff?
No. ThirdLine is built to reduce dependence on custom SQL, Power BI builds, manual exports, and one-off spreadsheets.
Does this replace auditors?
No. ThirdLine helps auditors spend less time preparing data and more time interpreting risk, validating exceptions, writing findings, and recommending stronger controls.
Can this help with audit planning?
Yes. ERP analytics can help identify high-risk departments, vendors, workflows, permissions, and transaction patterns to support a more data-driven audit plan.
What ERP systems does ThirdLine work with?
ThirdLine has deep experience with public sector ERP data, especially complex systems used by cities, counties, school districts, and public agencies.
Meet ThirdLine
Turn ERP data into audit impact.
If your team is thinking about AI, data reliability, fraud risk, internal controls, ERP access, P-Cards, vendor risk, or audit efficiency, let’s talk before or during the conference.
“I've learned a way to continuously monitor the accounts, records, and inventory by using the data analytics that will put on a dashboard the things that I need to be concerned about. What we're doing here is revolutionary, we haven't ever done this before.” - Cathy Carter, Tulsa City Auditor
