Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Continuous Auditing Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Continuous Auditing 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 Continuous Auditing specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Continuous Auditing 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 990 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Continuous Auditing improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 990 standard requirements:
- How corporate governance rules shape the internal control practice and the risk management practice and the role played by the internal auditors in the internal control and the risk management?
- Do you have a process to transition continuous auditing activities to continuous monitoring activities in order to embed as key controls directly within your organization process?
- Have you considered all circumstances and factors that exist in the current business environment that impact the use of data analytics in a financial statement audit?
- Do you see that ERP systems improve the internal auditors capabilities by offering the main infrastructure for automating the audit process to be continuous audit?
- Have the implementation and use of ERP systems reduced the time spent on and improved the information related to internal control assurance and risk assessment?
- How can the internal auditors benefit from implementing the ERP systems to enhance role in internal control, risk management and corporate governance process?
- When establishing a quality assurance and improvement program, the chief audit executive should ensure the program is designed to accomplish which objectives?
- Which files, when compared with billing records, would provide the best source of information for determining if all goods shipped are billed to customers?
- Which factor would be considered least important in deciding whether resources should be removed from the legal compliance audit to the operational audit?
- What technology does your organization already have, and if it needs to source a solution, is it looking for an internally or externally hosted solution?
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 Continuous Auditing book in PDF containing 990 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Continuous Auditing 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 Continuous Auditing Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Continuous Auditing 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 Continuous Auditing 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 Continuous Auditing projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Continuous Auditing Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Continuous Auditing project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Quality Metrics: There are many reasons to shore up quality-related metrics, and what metrics are important?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: What proven methodologies and standards will be used to ensure that materials, products, processes and services are fit for purpose?
- Schedule Management Plan: Have the procedures for identifying budget variances been followed?
- Procurement Audit: Does the strategy contain incentives to evaluate the performance of the procurement function/unit?
- Activity Duration Estimates: Briefly describe some key events in the history of Continuous Auditing project management. What Continuous Auditing project was the first to use modern Continuous Auditing project management?
- Activity Duration Estimates: What functions does this software provide that cannot be done easily using other tools such as a spreadsheet or database?
- Procurement Audit: Are copies of policies made available to staff members involved in budget preparation and administration?
- WBS Dictionary: Are retroactive changes to budgets for completed work specifically prohibited in an established procedure, and is this procedure adhered to?
- Scope Management Plan: Is the Continuous Auditing project status reviewed with the steering and executive teams at appropriate intervals?
- Procurement Management Plan: What were things that you did well, and could improve, and how?
Step-by-step and complete Continuous Auditing Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Continuous Auditing project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Continuous Auditing project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Continuous Auditing 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 Continuous Auditing 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 Continuous Auditing 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 Continuous Auditing 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 Continuous Auditing project with this in-depth Continuous Auditing Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Continuous Auditing 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 Continuous Auditing 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 Continuous Auditing investments work better.
This Continuous Auditing 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.
