Quality of your Internal Audit function: independently assessed.

Two services for the quality of your Internal Audit function: Quality Improvement (targeted enhancement on Design and Improve) and External Quality Assessment (the IIA-mandated assessment, per Standard 8.4). Both delivered independently, both reporting to the audit committee and Chief Audit Executive (CAE).

Quality Improvement or a full EQA?

We help you choose, based on your QAIP status, audit cycle and audit-committee requirements. A first conversation is quickly arranged.

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Frequently asked questions

What does Internal Audit Quality cover?

Two services: the External Quality Assessment, required at least once every five years under Standard 8.4, and Quality Improvement, which you scope yourself and which is independent of that cycle.

What is the difference between Quality Improvement and an EQA?

An EQA is the formal, five-yearly assessment with an external verdict: its framework and outcome are fixed. Quality Improvement is a separate service with an open scope, where you decide what gets improved and whether a standard is involved at all. QI is not a stage in the EQA cycle.

Which should I choose?

If the mandatory five-yearly assessment is due, an EQA. If you want to improve something concrete, whether that is the whole function or a single component, Quality Improvement. Neither presupposes the other: QI is equally valid with no EQA in sight.