Internal Auditing Fundamentals
How to plan, perform and follow up internal audits of management systems: audit purpose, programmes and plans, gathering objective evidence, grading findings, and professional auditor conduct for industrial and energy organisations.
55m
Total time
4
Competency levels
12
Lessons
What you'll learn
- Explain why organisations audit themselves — checking conformity and effectiveness, not catching people out
- Distinguish an audit programme from an audit plan and describe what each contains
- Prepare for an audit by defining scope and criteria and building a working checklist
- Conduct the audit flow from opening meeting through evidence gathering and evaluation to the closing meeting
- Grade findings correctly as major nonconformity, minor nonconformity, or observation/opportunity for improvement
- Follow up findings to verified closure while maintaining independent, factual and courteous auditor conduct
Curriculum
Progress through each competency level in order.
1
Awareness
- 3mWhy Organisations Audit ThemselvesKnowledge
- 3mProgramme, Plan and the Language of AuditingKnowledge
- 7mAwareness Check: Audit Purpose and TermsAssessment
2
Knowledge
- 3mPreparing an Audit: Scope, Criteria and ChecklistsKnowledge
- 3mThe Audit Flow: From Opening Meeting to Closing MeetingKnowledge
- 8mKnowledge Check: Preparation and the Audit FlowAssessment
3
Skill
- 3mGrading and Writing FindingsKnowledge
- 3mPrepare and Perform a Mini-AuditAssignment
- 8mSkill Check: Findings JudgementAssessment
4
Mastery
- 3mAuditor Conduct, Follow-up and ClosureKnowledge
- 3mLead an Audit Through to Verified ClosureAssignment
- 8mMastery Check: Audit Leadership JudgementAssessment
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