Audit Planning Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Audit Planning 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 993 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 Planning improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. Does the internal audit service provider prepare an annual report showing value added over the year, systemic issues identified, and trends to better position your organization in the future?
   
   

2. What strategy and culture does the chief audit executive create to align to organizational strategies, help accomplish organizational objectives, and enhance and protect organizational value?
   
   

3. Does the committee consider the audit plans with the internal and independent auditors, along with the extent of control testing to be performed and related concerns and challenges?
   
   

4. Does internal audit prepare an annual report showing value added over the year, systemic issues identified, and trends to better position your organization in the future?
   
   

5. What assurance is provided by internal audit to demonstrate your organization has effective controls over its significant risks, including fraud and corruption risks?
   
   

6. Have transparency into the internal audit risk assessment and audit plans, including activities and objectives regarding internal control over financial reporting?
   
   

7. Does internal audit report functionally for its operations directly to the audit committee via the chair, and administratively to the chief executive officer?
   
   

8. Did the chief audit executive ensure that internal audit resources were appropriate, sufficient, and effectively deployed to achieve the approved audit plan?
   
   

9. Have the results of the updated risk assessment been considered in determining the resources available and the audit plan of the internal audit function?
   
   

10. Has the result of the updated risk assessment been considered in determining the resources available and the audit plan of the internal audit function?
    
    


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 Planning book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Audit Planning 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 Planning Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Audit Planning 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 Planning 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 Planning projects with the 62 implementation resources:


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Quality Management Plan: Have adequate resources been provided by management to ensure Audit Planning project success?
   
   

2. Formal Acceptance: Do you buy pre-configured systems or build your own configuration?
   
   

3. Planning Process Group: To what extent are the visions and actions of the partners consistent or divergent with regard to the program?
   
   

4. Planning Process Group: What is involved in Audit Planning project scope management, and why is good Audit Planning project scope management so important on information technology Audit Planning projects?
   
   

5. Change Management Plan: Are there any restrictions on who can receive the communications?
   
   

6. WBS Dictionary: Is cost performance measurement at the point in time most suitable for the category of material involved, and no earlier than the time of actual receipt of material?
   
   

7. Procurement Audit: Are there appropriate controls in place to ensure that the procurement Audit Planning project complies with relevant legislation?
   
   

8. Human Resource Management Plan: Were stakeholders aware and supportive of the principles and practices of modern cost estimation?
   
   

9. Probability and Impact Assessment: What new technologies are being explored in the same area?
   
   

10. Procurement Audit: Were the documents received scrutinised for completion and adherence to stated conditions before the tenders were evaluated?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Audit Planning project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Audit Planning 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 Planning 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 Planning 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 Planning 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 Planning 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 Planning project with this in-depth Audit Planning Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Audit Planning 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 Planning 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 Planning investments work better.

This Audit Planning 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.