Identify the sources of variation in external audit preparation and rank them by effect.
Designing Strategies to Prepare Confidently for External Audit
Learn to design, measure and defend your organisation's approach to external audit preparation.
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5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
The cost of poor quality in external audit preparation is rarely visible in any single budget line. A quality system for the practice within quality and productivity management that exists only for the auditor produces paperwork, not quality. Discussion is anchored to worked examples of this strand of quality and productivity management rather than to abstract argument. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better external audit preparation is rarely technical. It establishes a shared vocabulary for the wider quality and productivity management agenda so that teams can disagree productively about it. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with this part of quality and productivity management. Ambition around external audit preparation outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. Participants take away a working set of documents supporting this strand of quality and productivity management, ready to be adapted internally. It ends with a prioritised list of changes to the quality and productivity management capability that the participant is prepared to defend internally.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Estimate what external audit preparation costs to run properly, and what is lost when it is not.
Map the process behind external audit preparation as it is actually performed.
Set acceptance criteria and sampling for external audit preparation on statistical grounds.
Design a training and briefing approach that sustains competence in external audit preparation.
Benchmark external audit preparation against comparable operations honestly.
Assign clear ownership for each element of external audit preparation across the functions involved.
Who Should Attend
Certification and accreditation coordinators preparing evidence on external audit preparation.
Inspection and testing staff verifying external audit preparation.
Health, safety and environmental staff whose systems integrate with external audit preparation.
Quality managers and coordinators responsible for external audit preparation.
Those responsible for briefing external stakeholders on external audit preparation.
Managers with direct responsibility for external audit preparation within the operating process.
Course Modules
External audit preparation: defining quality in measurable terms
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Making external audit preparation work when resources are constrained
- Set sampling for external audit preparation on statistical grounds, not on habit.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around external audit preparation are understood.
- Verify that improvements to external audit preparation held six months later.
- Agree what will be standardised in external audit preparation and what will not.
Session 2Sampling external audit preparation on evidence rather than convention
- Identify where judgement in external audit preparation is legitimate and where it is not.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether external audit preparation is improving.
- Rehearse the briefing on external audit preparation that would follow an incident.
- Design the internal audit schedule covering external audit preparation.
External audit preparation: mapping the process as actually performed
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Standard work for external audit preparation without deskilling it
- Name a single owner for each element of external audit preparation.
- Train the team handling external audit preparation in the problem-solving method being used.
- Reduce the variation in how external audit preparation is carried out between teams.
- Record what was tried on external audit preparation and did not work, and why.
Session 2Agreeing what good actually means for external audit preparation
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in external audit preparation.
- Write standard work for external audit preparation with the people who perform it.
- Map the process behind external audit preparation by walking it, not by describing it.
- Define the trigger that would require external audit preparation to be redesigned.
External audit preparation: benchmarking and continual improvement
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Control plans for external audit preparation that catch problems early
- Identify the few causes responsible for most defects in external audit preparation.
- Define supplier quality requirements affecting inputs to external audit preparation.
- Measure current variation in external audit preparation before attempting improvement.
- Assemble certification evidence for external audit preparation as work proceeds, not before the audit.
Session 2Solving the defect in external audit preparation that keeps returning
- Anticipate the objections external audit preparation will raise and prepare the answers.
- Compare the cost of external audit preparation with the cost of its absence.
- Benchmark external audit preparation against a comparable operation and record the gap.
- Prepare the summary of external audit preparation that senior management will read.
External audit preparation: structured problem solving and root cause
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Who answers for external audit preparation, and to whom
- Define quality for external audit preparation in terms the customer would recognise.
- Calculate the cost of poor quality attributable to external audit preparation.
- Identify single points of dependency in external audit preparation and reduce them.
- Remove steps in external audit preparation that add effort without adding assurance.
Session 2Reading the current state of external audit preparation honestly
- Confirm that reporting on external audit preparation reaches the people who can act.
- Build a control plan for external audit preparation identifying what is checked, when and by whom.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to external audit preparation.
- Apply structured root cause analysis to the top defect in external audit preparation.
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