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A disaster recovery plan ( DRP) is a documented process or set of procedures to execute an organization's disaster recovery processes and recover and protect a business IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster. [ 3] It is "a comprehensive statement of consistent actions to be taken before, during and after a disaster". [ 4]
ISA 400 talks about the "walk through testing" or auditing in depth test. This standard was withdrawn in 2004, and has been replaced with the ISA 315, “Understanding the Entity and Its Environment and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement” and the ISA 330, “The Auditor’s Procedures in Response to Assessed Risks” [ citation needed ]
The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) is a ten-item questionnaire approved by the World Health Organization to screen patients for hazardous (risky) and harmful alcohol consumption. It was developed from a WHO multi-country collaborative study, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] the items being selected for the AUDIT being the best performing of ...
A home energy audit is a service where the energy efficiency of a house is evaluated by a person using professional equipment (such as blower doors and infrared cameras ), with the aim to suggest the best ways to improve energy efficiency in heating and cooling the house. An energy audit of a home may involve recording various characteristics ...
Software management reviews are conducted by management representatives to evaluate the status of work done and to make decisions regarding downstream activities. Software audit reviews are conducted by personnel external to the software project, to evaluate compliance with specifications, standards, contractual agreements, or other criteria.
In the control testing stage, audit evidence is used by the auditor to consider the mix of audit test of controls and audit substantive tests. [9] In the substantive testing stage, audit evidence is defined as the information that the auditor needs to support the appropriation of financial statement assertions. [10]
A walkthrough is a scheduled meeting with the author in charge of the model or documents that are set to be reviewed. In addition to the authors, there is usually a group of senior technical staff and possibly business staff that help analyze the model. Typically, there is also a facilitator who is in charge of leading the meeting.
In the United States, Statements on Auditing Standards provide guidance to external auditors on generally accepted auditing standards (abbreviated as GAAS) in regards to auditing a non-public company [ 1] and issuing a report. They are promulgated by the Auditing Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA ...