Module 3 of 8 · ~14 min video + quiz
Planning the Audit: Objectives, Scope, Criteria and Preparation
Audits are won or lost before the opening meeting. Initiating the audit, feasibility, the pre-audit document and data review, an audit plan that survives contact with reality, work documents and checklists that guide without blinding, and deliberate sampling — knowing what a sample can and cannot prove.
After this module you can
- ✓Define audit objectives, scope and criteria that make the audit decidable.
- ✓Run the pre-audit document and data review so fieldwork starts informed, not innocent.
- ✓Write an audit plan that survives contact with reality.
- ✓Prepare work documents and checklists that guide without blinding.
- ✓Sample deliberately, and know what a sample can and cannot prove.
The method for this module
- Read Module 3 in the course study guide.
- Standard reading: ISO 19011:2026 — clauses 6.1–6.3 (initiating the audit and preparing audit activities) — in your own licensed copy.
- Watch the video above — the guided lesson that ties them together.
- Take the quiz below, closed notes. Pass mark 80% — below it, re-study what you missed and take a fresh attempt.
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Module 3 quiz
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