Audit Scope
What is Audit Scope?
The extent and boundaries of an audit, including the locations, organisational units, activities, and processes to be audited, as well as the time period covered by the audit.
Terms that appear alongside audit scope
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as audit scope. The number is how many controls name both.
- audit 5 shared controls
- compliance 4 shared controls
- remediation 3 shared controls
- iso 27001 3 shared controls
- risk assessment 2 shared controls
- iec 27001 2 shared controls
- audit report 2 shared controls
- certification 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern audit scope
What the standards actually require on audit scope
Requirements naming audit scope across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
The organization shows that its second-party auditors are competent. They satisfy the customer's specific requirements for auditor qualification and show that they understand: the automotive process approach and the risk-based thinking within it;
iatf-16949-2016-quality-management-system-for-automotive-production::7.2.4 · 7.2.4 Second-party auditor competency →Those managing the programme should make sure there is an evaluation of: whether audits are happening on schedule and the programme's objectives are being met; how well the audit team members perform, team leader and technical experts included;
iso-19011-2026::5.6 · Monitoring the audit programme →Where the site handles products or materials outside the audit scope, such as by-products, they must be controlled so they create no safety, authenticity or legality risk to in-scope products.
brcgs-global-standard-for-food-safety-issue-9::6.1.7 · 6.1.7 Out-of-scope products and materials controlled so they create no risk to in-scope products →Confirm during each audit that the organisation meets every standard, regulation, contract clause and statutory obligation inside the audit scope, and record the outcome for each one.
CCM-A&A-04 · Requirements Compliance →Guidance: the auditee's relevant management system documented information should be reviewed to gather information for understanding its operations and preparing audit activities and work documents, and to get a picture of how extensive the documentation is so...
iso-19011-2018::6.3.1 · Performing review of documented information →The auditor examines the documented ISMS scope: that it was set considering the 4.1 issues, the 4.2 requirements and the interfaces and dependencies with activities of other organizations, that it is available as documented information, that it is consistent w...
iso-iec-27007-2020::A:4.3 · Annex A: auditing ISO/IEC 27001:2013, 4.3 Determining the scope of the information security management system →Questions people ask about audit scope
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