Improving Audit Issue Management

As an audit manager, you do not always want everything related to an audit finding presented to the personnel implementing corrective action. If using a spreadsheet to track audit issues, it can be difficult to get the information to the assignee without giving them access to the entire spreadsheet used for tracking audit issues. Audit issue management can be improved by using AuditFindings.com.

At AuditFindings.com, we understand the problem related to audit issue management and have enabled access-level controls over what fields are presented to an audit issue assignee. Within AuditFindings.com, administrators can control what fields are presented to the personnel assigned to implement corrective action for an audit issue. The administrator can remove fields, enable view-only fields, or allow full editing of fields. This feature greatly improves the audit department’s control over audit issue management.

Some audit issue fields are required to be displayed, such as “Issue Name.” For these fields, the administrator has the option of viewing or editing. Other capabilities, such as adding comments, updating target resolution dates, or attaching files, can be removed completely from the audit issue when displayed to the assignee. These settings apply to the audit issue assignee, but allow authorized personnel access to view and edit all fields. The granularity in limiting access to specific information provides audit managers much more control than using spreadsheets to track audit issues.

AuditFindings.com is a system for managing audit issues. Click here for an overview of the AuditFindings.com system.