Readiness
Audit readiness planning
Organise people, records, and open questions before a formal audit activity.
Audit readiness work tests whether the team can explain its program and retrieve the evidence that supports it. The review can sample controlled documents and records, walk through responsibilities, rehearse evidence retrieval, and identify unresolved actions before an external review.
Findings are tied to the agreed criteria and scope. Preparation cannot predict or guarantee an auditor's decision; its value is giving the organisation time to understand gaps, assign ownership, and correct what it is authorised to correct.
Prepare deliberately
Read the scope
Identify sites, processes, dates, baseline, contacts, and requested evidence.
Map availability
Confirm controlled records and responsible people can be reached when needed.
Review open items
Keep missing evidence, exceptions, changes, and owners visible.
Plan the day
Coordinate access and logistics without scripting or obscuring factual responses.
Readiness outputs
Evidence map
A bounded index of requested records, owners, status, and retrieval path.
Participant plan
Availability, role, location, and responsibility for each topic.
Open-item register
Known gaps, questions, changes, owners, and next checkpoints.
Does readiness work predict the result?
No. The formal activity, evidence, scope, and authorised auditor determine its result.
Should missing records be recreated?
No. Preserve history and identify the exception and approved corrective path.