FAQ
The word audit comes from the Latin auditus, where audire translates as "to hear."
In the field of quality management, the term has become established. Here it is meant that a person listens when another person reports.
However, the auditor must have considerably more skills than just listening.
The ability to grasp and analyze interrelationships and, based on this, to derive questions by means of appropriate discussion of the company's management system (MS) is particularly important.
In addition, an auditor needs a broad knowledge of quality standards and methods, a high level of analytical ability as well as a lot of professional experience in order to correctly classify what is presented to him or examined and to confirm or not the fulfillment of requirements from quality standards, customer-specific requirements, internal specifications or legal/regulatory requirements, resulting in so-called non-conformities and the need for action by the management.
Thus, if management has corporate responsibility for meeting all requirements, auditors help identify where there are deficiencies in the company in meeting requirements and thus risks to the company, and highlight these in the audit report for management.
Unfortunately, the audit has not always been treated with care in recent years. In the minds of many, it has the character of an audit or evaluation of work performance.
The actual purpose of the audit - to achieve continuous self-improvement and to avoid risks for the company - is often neglected.
In the field of quality management, the term has become established. Here it is meant that a person listens when another person reports.
However, the auditor must have considerably more skills than just listening.
The ability to grasp and analyze interrelationships and, based on this, to derive questions by means of appropriate discussion of the company's management system (MS) is particularly important.
In addition, an auditor needs a broad knowledge of quality standards and methods, a high level of analytical ability as well as a lot of professional experience in order to correctly classify what is presented to him or examined and to confirm or not the fulfillment of requirements from quality standards, customer-specific requirements, internal specifications or legal/regulatory requirements, resulting in so-called non-conformities and the need for action by the management.
Thus, if management has corporate responsibility for meeting all requirements, auditors help identify where there are deficiencies in the company in meeting requirements and thus risks to the company, and highlight these in the audit report for management.
Unfortunately, the audit has not always been treated with care in recent years. In the minds of many, it has the character of an audit or evaluation of work performance.
The actual purpose of the audit - to achieve continuous self-improvement and to avoid risks for the company - is often neglected.
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