Audit Planning and Facilitation

Audits are a challenge. They are time intensive and if not managed properly can cause significant disruption to your daily operations.

Our Audit Facilitation services provide both the facilitation and audit experience necessary to help you get through your audit and minimize the impact to your staff and operations. Our facilitators know how to work with the audit team to finalize an audit approach and plan, keep it on track, build cooperation and collaboration, and keep senior management fully informed of progress.

We will provide our facilitation approach and methodology as a map to prepare your team for the audit, implement effective communication mechanisms and streamline the overall process.

Your DRT Strategies team will:

• Prepare – We understand the audit process and will help you prepare before the audit team arrives.
  
• Plan – We will work with you and the audit team to develop and agree upon an audit plan so you can see the big picture, and assess and communicate progress.
  
• Coordinate – We will bridge requirements and priorities among all parties – internal auditors, external auditors, regulators, business units and other departments.
  
• Track – We actively track the progress of major tasks against the plan, and manage open issues and ensure closure.
  
• Follow up – We coordinate follow-up efforts to clarify auditors’ requests, help you to complete the requests, and negotiate delivery dates to help you manage your time.
  
• Communicate – We build the trust necessary to facilitate and strengthen communication between the audit team and your company representatives.
  
• Streamline – We help you to avoid redundancy and duplication of efforts. For example, we keep track of all documents delivered to auditors and the versions of each so subsequent requests for the same document can be handled quickly, without disrupting your team.
  
• Lead – We are proactive and help to set and keep the pace of the audit.

How can we help you >>