Sending Recommendations
Audit team members meet to review audit findings and information collected during audit activities. The resulting audit conclusions can indicate a need for recommendations.
A recommendation describes what must be done to correct non-compliance detected during an audit.There is only one person responsible for recommendation in order to assign responsibility precisely.
You can however divide the recommendation into several actions when creating the action plan. Each action can be assigned to a different user.Creating recommendations
Recommendations are created from audit findings.
To create a recommendation:
1. In the work program tree, open the properties of a finding.
2. Expand the Recommendations section and click New.
3. Select:
• a level of Priority
• a Deadline
4. Click OK.
The recommendation appears in the section.
Defining recommendation characteristics
To define the characteristics of a recommendation:
1. In the navigation menu, click My Tasks > Audit > Work Program.
2. Expand the tree of the work program so as to be able to access the recommendation.
You can also access recommendations from the finding properties.3. Enter the text of your recommendation in the Description field.
4. Select the Recommendation Responsible.
The recommendation owner:• specifies the actions to take to ensure recommendation follow-up
• ensures actions are correctly implemented
5. Select a Recommendation Correspondent.
The recommendation correspondent is the point of contact in the audit team of the department in which the recommendation applies.6. Click OK.
Viewing recommendations
Recommendations can be viewed:
• in the page of the finding to which they are attached
• in the Recommendations page of the owner audit
When a recommendation is linked to a follow-up audit, the Follow-up check-box in the recommendation is selected. For more details on follow-up audit, see Creating Follow-up Audits.