And now, something completely different ...

For years, I kept receiving the same question from new auditors:

"𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲?"

It sounds simple.

But when you start thinking seriously about it, the question opens a much deeper topic:

Where do audit questions come from?

- How do you transform a procedure into verifiable audit criteria?

- How do you design checklists that are useful, not mechanical?

- And how do you move from observations to reliable audit conclusions?

These questions led me to create a new course:

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 — 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗢𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀

The course is designed especially for auditors with limited experience, and focuses on very practical methods, including:

- Designing clear audit objectives

- Translating procedures and requirements into verifiable elements

- Writing different types of audit checklists

- Understanding what to audit in the procedure, the process, and the results

- Using sampling to reach conclusions you can defend

Some of the approaches presented in the course are things I have never seen written in books or taught elsewhere; they come directly from many years of auditing practice.

In the video, I explain why I created the course and walk through the main modules and ideas.

If you are starting your journey as an auditor or mentoring new auditors, this may be useful.

Note: From time to time, I run workshops for Lead Auditors. In the last one, someone asked me how I design my audit plans. I like this type of question very much. When we learn something well, we tend to forget what it feels like not to know. Questions like this bring us back to the practical side of our profession.

This topic is not part of this course, but I intend to publish additional modules in the future that address questions like this and illustrate how I approach them in practice. 

Launch scheduled for next week.