From the course: CISA Cert Prep: 1 Auditing Information Systems for IS Auditors
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Planning an audit
From the course: CISA Cert Prep: 1 Auditing Information Systems for IS Auditors
Planning an audit
- [Instructor] Alright, let's talk about planning an audit. It's important to make sure you plan this all out and follow some kind of process for planning it out because an audit can include a lot of things, and you want to make sure you take care of everything, and have it all thought out ahead of time. There are short-term planning objectives, what are we going to do this year, for example, and there's long-term planning. Well long-term planning is not only what are we going to do beyond this year, it's also where you take into consideration things like long-term mission of the organization, long-term goals. It's oftentimes where you take a risk-based approach to planning the audits and the activities for that coming-up period. The audit universe is a very important term when discussing things like the size and scope of an audit. Audit universe is everything that's going to be involved in an audit, all the business processes, all the assets, all the people, don't forget the people…
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