The Weight of the Evidence · Chapter 24

Part Seven · Saying It and Leading It

Running the Engagement

Strategy and plan, assembling a team that collectively knows enough, the time budget as a quality question, external experts, supervision and review, and what happens when the reviewer and the team disagree.

Classic traps from this chapter

  1. The strategy is what to do; the plan is how to do it. The strategy is also the basis for deciding whether the audit can be executed at all.
  2. Work allocation and the dates of quality control belong in the strategy. They are professional decisions, documented.
  3. Competence is collective, not individual. No auditor is required to hold every skill.
  4. Sufficient time is a quality control criterion, alongside competence and access to information.

Chapter 24 in full

The traps above are how this chapter ends. The chapter itself works the material through first — the reasoning, the sources with their article and paragraph numbers, check-yourself questions with the reasons under them, and flashcards for retrieval practice.

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