Include, exclude, and generate audits in audit plan

Initially, your draft audit plan is not populated with included audits. You must include your audit plan’s audits.

Overview of audits

The Draft audit plan shows the Budgeted hours you allocated, the Sum of audit hours, and the Remaining hours. Initially the Sum is 0 and the Remaining hours equal the hours initially allocated. These fields update as you add hours to your included audits. The draft audit plan also shows the Details, Schedule, and Resource (Budgeted hours). To include the audits required to complete your audit plan, you can either Include audits or Generate audits.

Linked audit risk assessment

Information about the linked audit risk assessment includes its prioritized auditable entities, the ones included in the audit plan, and the percentage of coverage relative to the prioritized auditable entities section in the audit risk assessment.

Include audits

Perform the following steps to include audits for your audit plan.

1. Select Include audits.

   Any existing audits are listed in the All audits table. You can select existing audits to include (using the Select toggle) or add new audits.

2. Select Add audit.

   The Add Audit screen prompts you to name your audit, describe it, schedule it, allocate budgeted hours and include auditable entities.

3. Name your audit.

4. Describe your audit.

5. Schedule your audit.

6. Add the Resource (Budgeted hours).

   These hours are subtracted from the Audit plan.

7. Select Include auditable entity.

   The Edit scope page appears. Update the selection as needed and select Done to save your changes. See Edit the audit scope.

8. Select Add. The app returns to the Include audits screen.

   The newly added Audit is shown at the top of All audits table.

   The status is Draft.

9. Use the Select toggle to include the audit in your audit plan.

   You can include multiple audits in your audit plan.

   Note

   These changes are automatically saved.

10. When you are finished including audits, select Done.

    The app opens the audit plan Timeline (you can select to view data as a Table). The audit plan status is Draft.

Exclude an audit from the audit plan

1. From the Audit planning screen table view or timeline view select the audit name to open the side panel.

2. From the audit’s side panel, select Exclude from audit plan.

3. Select Done.

   Note

   You can also exclude an audit from the Include audit page by deselecting the include/exclude toggle.

Generate audits

To generate audits to include in the audit plan, perform the following steps.

1. Select the toggle to select the active auditable entities to generate audits to include in the audit plan.

2. Select Generate and include.

   The audit plan timeline shows the audits for your audit plan. The start and end date of the generated audit is aligned with the audit plan start and end date; the name of the audit is derived from the prioritized auditable entity which is linked to the scope of newly generated audit. However, you can open and edit generated audits before proposing the plan.