This document provides an overview of process monitoring and auditing. It defines monitoring as ongoing checking and measuring that can identify needs for a more formal audit. An audit is a systematic, disciplined evaluation of processes and controls to understand performance against standards and identify improvement areas. Key characteristics of audits are that they are formal, independent reviews following professional standards. The document outlines audit planning, testing, validation, reporting, and follow-up of corrective actions. It also discusses pre-audit, onsite audit, and post-audit activities and describes internal, external, and certification types of audits.

1. PROCESS MONITORING
AND AUDIT
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Presented by:
Priyanka Pradhan
M.Tech(SE)
Batch:2013

2. CONTENTS
1. Introduction Of Monitoring
2. Characteristics Of Monitoring
3. Introduction Of Audit
4. Characteristics Of Audit
5. Audit Analysis
6. Steps To Implement Audit
7. Audit Activities
8. Types Of Audit
9. Audit Function
10. Conclusion
11. Reference 2

3. INTRODUCTION OF MONITORING
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4. CHARACTERISTICS OF MONITORING
 Involves on-going checking and measuring
 Can be periodic spot checks, daily/weekly/monthly tests
 Usually completed by operations
 May identify the need for an audit
 Often less structured than auditing
 Accountability for monitoring is typically to operations
 Typically completed by department staff and
communicated to department management
 May involve internal audit
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5. INTRODUCTION OF AUDIT
 Audit is a formal, systematic and disciplined approach
designed to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of
processes and related controls.
 Provides the means to understand performance versus
established standards and identify areas for continued
improvement.
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6. CHARACTERISTICS OF AUDIT
 Formal review governed by professional standards
 Completed by individual independent of the operation
 Formal, systematic and structured approach
 Involves planning, sampling, testing, and validating
 Formal communication with recommendations and
corrective action measures
 Documented follow-up of corrective actions
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AUDIT ANALYSIS
• One-off analysis and
testing
• Automated analyses and
tests
• Managed and deployed
from a central
environment
• Continual execution of
automated audit and
monitoring tests to
identify errors, fraud and
anomalies on a timely
basis

8. KEY STEPS TO IMPLEMENTING
CONTINUOUS AUDITING
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9. AUDIT ACTIVITIES
Three elements:
 Preaudit activities, those done in planning and preparing
for the audit.
 Onsite audit activities by the audit team, from gathering
for and beginning the audit to reporting to management
the results of the audit.
 Postaudit activities, which include documenting the audit
in an appropriate report format and then developing and
executing a corrective action plan to address the
improvement opportunities identified by the audit team.
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10. TYPES OF AUDITING
INTERNAL AUDIT
Performed by trained employee
EXTERNAL AUDIT
Independent audit organization
Certification
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11. AUDIT FUNCTION
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12. CONCLUSION
 Auditing tasks is the determination of compliance of
facts with pre-defined specifications.
 Auditing is the review of an organization’s quality
system in order to achieve quality throughout the
process.
 Audits are the most effective when performed by
qualified professionals who work together and are
focussed on clear objectives.
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13. REFERENCE
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Hill, 1998
[2] Musa, J.D., Iannino, A., Okumoto, k., 1987. “Software
Reliability: Measurement Prediction Application”. McGraw-
Hill, New York.
[3] Pham. H., 2003. “Handbook of Reliability Engineering”,
Springer
[4] Balakrishnan.N., Clifford Cohen; Order Statistics and
Inference; Academic Press inc.;1991.
[5] K.Ramchand H Rao, Dr. R.Satya Prasad, Dr.
R.R.L.Kantham, Assessing Software Reliability Using SPC
: An Order Statistics Approach, International Journal of
Computer Science, Engineering and Applications
(IJCSEA) Vol.1, No.4, August 2011 13

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15. THANK YOU
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