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Audit Programs

An Audit Program groups related audits together — for example all audits planned for a fiscal year, a themed audit series, or all supplier audits for a specific category. It provides a planning envelope with a shared time horizon.

Audit Programs List Report with code, title, description and the planned period per programme

Creating an Audit Program

Section titled “Creating an Audit Program”
  1. Navigate to Audit Programs (Auditprogramme) in the Launchpad
  2. Choose Create (Anlegen)
  3. Provide:
    • Title — e.g. “Annual Internal Audit Program 2026”
    • Code — short identifier for the program
    • Description — optional free-text description
    • Planned Start / End Date — the overall planning horizon
    • Applied Norm Standard — the norm standard the program is planned against; audits created inside the program inherit it as their default
    • Risks and Resources — optional notes on risks to the program itself and the resources needed to run it (see Scope & Resources)
  4. Optionally assign the organisational units covered by this program in the Scope Org Units (Geltungsbereiche) tab
  5. Save as Draft

Adding Audits to a Program

Section titled “Adding Audits to a Program”

Within an Audit Program:

  • Use the Create Audit (Audit erstellen) action to create a new audit directly within the program
  • Audits created this way are automatically linked to the program

All audits in a program are visible in the Audits tab of the program object page.

Audit Program object page with the Audits tab showing linked audits

When to Use Programs vs. Individual Audits

Section titled “When to Use Programs vs. Individual Audits”
Use Case Recommendation
One-off audit Create a standalone Audit
Recurring or themed audit series Create an Audit Program and add audits inside
Annual audit plan One Audit Program per year with audits added as they are planned

Tips

Section titled “Tips”
  • Completing a program does not automatically complete its child audits — manage each audit’s lifecycle independently
  • Use the program’s Change History to track all modifications with timestamp and user

Next Steps

Section titled “Next Steps”
  • Program Lifecycle — the status flow, its allowed transitions and who may trigger them
  • Scope & Resources — which organisational units a program covers and what puts its execution at risk
  • Evaluating a Program — the retrospective once all audits have run their course