When you need it
Prepare before a quality or management-process audit, once the objective and auditee are known. Use it to agree realistic coverage before interviews, site visits and document sampling are arranged.
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Audit Plan
Define audit objective, scope, criteria, team, sampling, schedule, evidence and reporting route.
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Learning
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What it helps you decide
The plan aligns audit effort with the question being examined. It tells participants what evidence is needed and makes sampling limits explicit, reducing scope drift and unsupported expectations of exhaustive assurance.
How to complete it
- Define Audit remit using the objective, locations, period and exclusions. Translate applicable requirements and previous findings into Audit areas and identifiable Criterion sources.
- For each area, specify Evidence sought and Interview role. Explain the Proposed sample basis using risk priorities, available records and actual access constraints.
- Agree Execution and reporting arrangements with responsible contacts. Record Coverage limitations and review competence or independence needs before confirming the audit programme.
Who prepares and reviews it
The audit lead prepares the plan with relevant technical specialists and auditee contacts. The audit programme owner reviews scope and resources; required independence and decision authority depend on the agreed audit arrangements.
A mistake to avoid
Planning an audit around whoever is available, without connecting interviews and samples to criteria, can leave the central audit question unanswered despite extensive activity.
Illustrative example
Illustrative example: a project plans to audit subcontractor material traceability after repeated incomplete delivery records. The plan selects relevant receiving and installation records, names interview roles and identifies unavailable archived batches. The audit owner then decides whether the proposed sample can answer the concern or needs wider coverage.
Document contents
- Audit remit
- Criteria and evidence
- Sampling approach
- Execution and reporting
- Project records
- Preparation, review and approval
Required inputs
- Audit objectives and scope
- Applicable audit criteria and previous findings
- Auditee organization and evidence availability
Practical tools.
Professional judgment.
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