Recent corporate accounting and financial scandals have led to sweeping regulatory changes — and dramatically increased audit requirements. Whether you are an outside auditor or part of the internal audit team, your audit process is under intense scrutiny as never before.

One strategy for staying accountable is to set up a project schedule and milestones to help you monitor the audit process. To be effective, the project plan must include detailed tasks, roles and responsibilities, and critical dependencies — as well as draw attention to checkpoint meetings and critical target dates.

The links below take you to the tools and information you need to help plan a successful audit process.

• Plan the audit process (Article)
  Develop an audit process strategy for your firm.
• Audit preparation process (Template)
  Use this Project template to manage and organize the audit preparation process.
• About the Audit preparation process template for Project (Article)
  Learn more about using the Audit preparation process template.
• Import Project data to a Visio timeline (Article)
  Show audit process milestones and other Project data in an easy-to-understand Visio timeline.