As audit (lat of. "Hearing") investigation procedures are generally designated, which serve for it, to evaluate process cycles regarding the fulfilment from requirements and guidelines to.

The audits are accomplished by an AUDI gate.

In this sense the term was originally used in the personnel management. Today in nearly all ranges from companies or organizations occasionally audits are accomplished (see internal revision): Financing, information management, data security, customer management, quality management, environment, management and/or guidance of an enterprise/an organization (see management audit), work satisfaction, compatibility by family and occupation etc.

Depending upon range with an audit the actual condition is analyzed or however a comparison of the original objective with the actually achieved goals is determined. Often an audit is to serve also to seek out general problems or an improvement need so that they can be eliminated.

Management systems

When the setting-up, certifying and maintaining of management systems audits play an important role.

The audit types are differentiated according to different criteria.

Distinction after the audit article:

• Complianceaudit (examination of the agreement with a set of rules, question catalog)
• System audit (the management system regards)
• Process audit (individual processes regard)
• Product audit (the product regards on the basis customer expectations)
• Project audit (regards the progress of a project)

Distinction after the status of the AUDI gate:

• Internal audit (1st party; that AUDI gate is coworker of the organization, in which the audit is accomplished)
• Supplier audit (2nd party; usually of the management-assigned of a customer with its supplier)
• Certification audit (3rd party; of an independent AUDI gate of a certification body, as for example by the ULD in things data security)

Audit in connection with certifying of management systems:

• Voraudit for the statement of the certification ability
• Certification audit with examination of the documents and the fulfilment of the set of rules on the basis a question catalog, which can be certified
• Monitoring audit (one accomplishes usually annually) to the monitoring of the further development of the management system
• Repetition audit or Rezertifizierung one accomplishes with most management systems every 3 years

Software

In the information technology the examination, whether an enterprise for the used software possesses a sufficient number of licenses, is called audit. Systematic examining of source code on careless implementations becomes as code audit, which systematic search for potential safety gaps called in programs or IT-infrastructure Securityaudit.

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• Market review to CAQ systems of Qualitainer
• International Organization for Standardization
• German Institut for standardization registered association.

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