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Traits of highly effective quality assurance and improvement programs

According to a recent paper released by the IIA Audit Executive Centre in North America, highly effective Quality Assurance and Improvement Programs (QAIPs) have the following three traits:
1. They have dedicated staff who are passionate about quality assurance and improvement. This person or group of individuals is responsible for performing the internal self-assessment, gathering all information in preparation for the external QA, and performing ongoing monitoring of the internal audit activity.
2. They leverage the use of technology and invest in the right technology tools based on the internal audit activity’s quality assurance and improvement needs. Tools are used to document all internal audit work papers as well as secure information in a central location.
3. They have the support of senior management and the audit committee. Getting the support of these two entities is especially important when performing an external QA and in ensuring internal auditors are on board with quality assurance activities.

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Quality Assurance & CPE

Did you know that quality assessments are an approved CPE activity? Find out more:
Quality Assurance and CPE

 

Quality Conformance across Australian organisations

The following series of 6 articles comment on the more interesting aspects of the IIA-Australia’s assessments of conformance across 35 Australian organisations between January 2007 and June 2009:
So where did we go wrong - Common breaches of the IIA-Australia Standards
What do you mean we need an internal audit manual
Internal Assessment. Yeah, we did one of those once
Hey can you stop looking over my shoulder like that
Of course I'm authorised to do that
Its okay. I've got it all right here in my head