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Mission Statement
The mission statement begins to define how this is going to be achieved. An example of a mission statement for internal audit addressing the prior vision would be:
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By identifying qualified internal auditors to fill the audit positions and providing them with an induction coarses so that they know their around the company, establish an audit department that will be able to meet all the internal auditing needs of the company. |
Mold the different people into a team so as to ensure that they will support one and other instead of competing against one and other and to structure the team in such a way that they will be able to provide holistic audit reports. In order to provide world class service,
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To identify weakness in the individual auditors and to send them on training to address those weakness. Cross training may be of value as it could be of assistance to the line auditors to have some understanding of the computer audit environment and visa versa. |
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Furthermore, world class audits cannot be produced without the audit team being continually updated and informed of the latest audit techniques and specialised knowledge in their area of expertise. (This is ar equirement of many proffesional bodies). |
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To allow the audit staff to attend workshops that are provided by their proffesional bodies so as to network with other people of similar interests. |
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To send the auditors on training courses on the various environment that they will be auditing so as to enhance their ability to obtain the data that they require and to understand the processes prior to performing the audit. These training courses can be considered as audit preparation and billed accordingly. |
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Audits will be planned in such a way as to dovetail in order for the audit department to provide a single report. |
The time spent in training both specialised and process training will provide the client with more effective efficient and timely audits as the auditors will be familiar with the client's systems.
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To identify weakness in the individual auditors and to send them on training to address those weakness. Cross training may be of value as it could be of assistance to the line auditors to have some understanding of the computer audit environment and visa versa. |
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Furthermore, world class audits cannot be produced without the audit team being continually updated and informed of the latest audit techniques and specialised knowledge in their area of expertise. (This is ar equirement of many proffesional bodies). |
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To allow the audit staff to attend workshops that are provided by their proffesional bodies so as to network with other people of similar interests. |
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To send the auditors on training courses on the various environment that they will be auditing so as to enhance their ability to obtain the data that they require and to understand the processes prior to performing the audit. These training courses can be considered as audit preparation and billed accordingly. |
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Audits will be planned in such a way as to dovetail in order for the audit department to provide a single report. |
The time spent in training both specialised and process training will provide the client with more effective efficient and timely audits as the auditors will be familiar with the client's systems.
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To perform risk assessments as part of the audit preparation so as to identify high, meduim and low risks as part of the audit planning. (Care must be taken in risk assessments due to the possiblity of partisan motives.) |
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To provide the client's with cost effective solutions to the areas of weakness that have be identified during the audit. |
For the company to gain recognition for its audit department by the writing of articles for professional inhouse magazines and by participating in the presentation of seminars.
[AS YOU CAN SEE THE TRAINING AND EXPOSURE WILL MEET THE DEPARTMENTS REQUIREMENTS. The audit conducted will be of far more value as they will provide the business management with quality instead of quantity. This will not de reduced substantially as the auditors will be more profincient in obtaining data and identifying inadequate (or over controlled processes)]
In order to meet this mission statement objectives and goals need to be set.
An objective is that to which action,thought and feeling are directed.
A goal is a terminal point. (this can be achieved by completing several objectives.)
Thus the mission is achieved, by completing certain goals.
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