Audit Evidence Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Audit Evidence Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Audit Evidence related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Audit Evidence specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Audit Evidence Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 994 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Audit Evidence improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 994 standard requirements:


1. Is there any evidence of ineffective communication and support of your organizations values or ethical standards by management or the communication of inappropriate values or ethical standards?
   
   

2. Does staff have any evidence to support its assertion that exclusive reliance on analysts forecasts of earnings growth in the dcf model would result in inflated cost of equity estimates?
   
   

3. Does your organization have a succession plan in place to maintain custody over the authorization mechanism in place to access, edit, and extract data stored on the blockchain platform?
   
   

4. Are required records established and maintained in order to provide evidence of conformity to requirements and evidence of the effective operation of the food safety management system?
   
   

5. Is there any evidence of nonfinancial managements excessive participation in or preoccupation with the selection of accounting principles or the determination of significant estimates?
   
   

6. Did the auditors document supervisory review, before the report release date, of the evidence that supports findings, conclusions, and recommendations contained in the auditors report?
   
   

7. Is there evidence of sufficient and timely engagement leader involvement in the audit on the audit file including evidence of attendance at meetings, file notes, review of work done?
   
   

8. Has the member obtained sufficient appropriate audit evidence about whether the opening balances contain misstatement that materially affect the current periods financial report?
   
   

9. Is there documented evidence that changes to organization or staffing levels were evaluated for the impact on prevention program or emergency response program implementation?
   
   

10. Did the engagement team report to management and the audit committee, where applicable, observations on internal control and business issues and was that evidenced on file?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Audit Evidence book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Audit Evidence self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Audit Evidence Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Audit Evidence areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Audit Evidence Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Audit Evidence projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Audit Evidence Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Audit Evidence project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Activity Duration Estimates: What are the options you found to help people prepare for the exam?
   
   

2. Activity Duration Estimates: What is the duration of the critical path for this Audit Evidence project?
   
   

3. Risk Management Plan: Technology risk: is the Audit Evidence project technically feasible?
   
   

4. Quality Audit: Is there a written procedure for receiving materials?
   
   

5. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: What departments are involved in its daily operation?
   
   

6. Procurement Management Plan: Have lessons learned been conducted after each Audit Evidence project release?
   
   

7. WBS Dictionary: Does the contractors system description or procedures require that the performance measurement baseline plus management reserve equal the contract budget base?
   
   

8. Team Operating Agreement: Are leadership responsibilities shared among team members (versus a single leader)?
   
   

9. Initiating Process Group: Are there resources to maintain and support the outcome of the Audit Evidence project?
   
   

10. Risk Audit: The halo effect in business risk audits: can strategic risk assessment bias auditor judgment about accounting details?


 
Step-by-step and complete Audit Evidence Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Audit Evidence project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Audit Evidence project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Audit Evidence project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Audit Evidence project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Audit Evidence project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Audit Evidence project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Audit Evidence project with this in-depth Audit Evidence Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Audit Evidence projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Audit Evidence and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Audit Evidence investments work better.

This Audit Evidence All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.