non-Certified Internal Auditor |

Today I’m starting my long way to perfect internal audit software. It would be long way, because I have no experience in software projects But, as far as I remember, everything should start from understanding the need.

So, my perfect audit software should have the following functionality (it is draft and new Internal Audit Tasks would be added). It is based on simple circular model of Internal Audit (cool name, huh)

a) You see issue
b) You start review (project)
c) During review you see new issues and go to “A”
b) Things you are able to review bring recommendation
c) Recommendation go to action plans
d) Action plan is completed by responsible (or not)
e) No issue, voila!

To simplify understanding, as usual, process flow comes.

So, stucture of data for internal audit software could be as folows:

1) Projects
- Define projects
- Define tasks in the project
- Assign tasks to employees
- Track status of tasks
2) Issues
- Define issues in the project
- Assign issues to employees of IA
- Track issues status
- Define recommendation for the issue
- Prepare Action plan
- Assign action steps to employees
- Track Action step completion
- Link issue to started project
- Show direction of the issue (Issue initiated project or project revealed issue)
3) User rights management
- View / create projects
- View / create tasks
- View / create issues

So, since this moment I will (irregularly) post here reviews of soft, which I was able to review. Mostly free ones. Sometimes, if internal audit software vendors would be so generous - I will test ones, for which other people normally pay.

At the end of the day youll see ranked software, one of them will fit all my requirements. But it is in future. Far future