Audit Management
The objective of Audit Management is to prepare, plan, execute, monitor, and report audits in an overall corporate audit context. The overall audit context details the chronological sequence of all audits, which can be a multi-year audit plan. Each audit is structured chronologically in order to coordinate the individual audit tasks. You can model audit templates in an ARIS modeling environment to simplify master data maintenance. This allows audit templates to be reused when a similar audit is to be performed later. An audit consists of the following phases.
Planning
During audit planning, the audit template and the audit steps are specified. Hierarchy elements can be assigned to the audits and audit steps to specify the scope of the audit. The audits are generated when the start date for the audit period is reached. The roles responsible are informed that new audits (with the Open status) are available for editing.
Preparation
After an audit template was transferred or created the audit preparation begins. In this phase, the audit owner can edit various attributes of the audit and the audit steps, for example, detailing the audit scope. Audit steps can also be added. Preparation ends when the audit owner sets the status of the template to Released. The assigned audit steps then also have the status Released. The audit step owners are notified by e-mail that new audit steps exist.
Execution
The audit step owner edits the audit steps. The audit owner can still edit the audit and the audit steps. These changes are displayed to the audit step owner with a note. Audit steps can be added, removed or changed. As soon as an audit step is completed by an audit step owner, the audit step can no longer be edited by the audit owner either.
An audit can only be completed by an audit owner.
Evaluation
The reports for the evaluation of audit results are defined in Evaluation.
For detailed information on modeling guidelines, refer to the Modeling Conventions.