The Auditor Career Pathway and the Case for the Vanishing Auditor
By Peter Holtmann The prospect of a clear and well-developed auditor career pathway is an…
Auditor Competence: Too Many Chiefs, Not Enough Indians?
by Peter Holtmann. Here’s an inflammatory statement I keep hearing about auditor competence: “Good” auditors…
Exemplar Global Issues ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 Transition Requirements
Exemplar Global Certification has released its ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 transition requirements. All Exemplar…
Managing Audit Programs: Establish the Need and Strategy
by J.P. Russell. Managing audit programs is covered in ISO 19011’s clause 5—Managing the audit…
Basic Statistics for Auditors
By Lance Coleman. This excerpt from Lance Coleman’s new book Advanced Quality Auditing: An Auditor’s…
Ethics in Auditing
By Peter Holtmann. How do we define ethics in auditing? For most people, ethics serve…
Auditing Survey Shows Cracks in the Glass Ceiling
by Peter Holtmann: From our recent global auditing survey of auditors and their career paths,…
Conducting the Audit Follow-Up: When to Verify
by J.P. Russell: This column is devoted to a review of ISO 19011 topics. I…
Auditing a Subsystem: Auditing Internal Meetings
by Russell T. Westcott: You’ve probably heard these vocalizations in your organization: I hate meetings.…
Selecting and Training Internal Auditors
by Craig Cochran: Selecting and training internal auditors will have significant impact on the success of…