To acquire a position of accreditation, in any discipline requires the person to a level of training and experience that they bear their profession with as little risk as possible fit for their clients practice. For example, should a doctor, a specialist in undergraduate education, by, followed by postgraduate training and experience before reaching any kind of registered status and to be allowed (interesting word in this context, the practice) on the population tothem. Even after this challenge, the same doctor is then required to address other challenges before stretching in a position to its number of companies on the original parameters.
All this is reasonable, and generally ensuring that our health care safe and secure under the watchful eye of the accreditation system. But what about our external auditors?
It is a fact that is typically outside of a few departments - finance - people in the economy can begin as untrained auditors andLegal practice in the same manner as its qualified employees. But this is not the problem, I would to raise here. My concern is for auditors who, in spite of all the independent expert training for accountants not just up to the task.
More and more customers from the certification bodies (registrars) with the performance of the auditing firm, whose services have to pay them, dissatisfied. For many of the other register their organization with minimal inconvenience is no longersufficient. The Art of the examiner is no longer sufficiently established in the training and experience handling their records contain conditions.
ISO 17024 is to establish a mechanism to measure objectively determine competency. By defining expectations for performance and skills, the ability to be a first step in the auditor must provide certification and accelerate, possibly removed from the accreditation process with potential examinerslack of business knowledge and awareness.
Show complaints against registered auditors perform are mostly (90%) Dealing with the auditors on the ground, but their personal skills or knowledge.
The problem in maximizing the quality of examiners for the registration of candidates is primarily in the definitions of auditor requirements, usually by ISO9001, in which literacy is defined as the demonstrated ability to apply knowledge and skills. TrainingTherefore focuses on the acquisition of knowledge and skills for the auditor, who perceived by the registration organization.
In essence what is required, a series of psychometric tests to eliminate potential auditor is no real experience, ability and inclination to apply the tests and valuable to the organization in which they work, lead to. To create such a test would require a detailed knowledge of the necessary attributes of an effective auditorand it is not likely that either the registrar or the examiner will try to register organizations to explore the domain would be.
