---title: Creating Audits---
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Creating Audits
In EmpowerID, an audit is a user-defined, logically named object for identifying or grouping attestation tasks and running the Attestation policies that generate them. When you create an audit,you link it to an attestation policy. Then when the audit runs, it creates an attestation or certification task for each item in the policy.
To create an audit
From the Navigation Sidebar, navigate to the Audit Configuration page by expanding Compliance and Reports > For Auditors and clicking Audit Configuration.
From the Audit Configuration page, click the Actions tab and then click Create Audit.
In the Audit Details form that appears, do the following:
In the following image, the Navigation Sidebar has been collapsed to conserve screen real estate.
In the Audit Details form that appears, do the following:
- Type an appropriate name, display name and description for the audit in the Name, Display Name and Description fields.
- Select the date you want the audit to start from the Started field.
- Select the date you want the audit to end from the Due Date field.
- Type the name of the person to be the audit owner in the Audit Owner field and then click the tile for that person.
- Tick Enabled to enable the audit.
- Click Save.
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