Audit program overview

An audit program is a collection of one or more audits that focus on a specific purpose and are planned over a defined period of time. The audit program provides an overview of the number of audits, the blocked resources, and the overall cost. The audit planner creates the audit program according to the company size, the number of audits, and different scopes of the specified audit program and decides the period of an audit. You can plan an audit to happen over a yearly, quarterly, or daily basis.

Example

Consider a scenario where a company has different organizational units in multiple zones and countries. Each organizational unit has its quality management and rules to be implemented. To get certified by ISO standards, the company needs to compare all the internal audits. To do this, the audit planner creates an audit plan. To compare all the internal ISO 9001 internal audits, the quality management department of the company creates an audit plan for these internal audits.

The audit planner creates a general plan such as FY2022-Internal or a plan as per different zones or organizational units such as FY2022-Internal-MOM-DACH and FY2022-Internal-MOM-APEC.