Quality

Professionalism does not occur overnight ... it takes time.
Professionalism is a process that evolves from dedication, high-road ethics, professional growth, and hard work. Integral to this process - and the essence of excellence in the business environment - is quality. To meet the unique needs and corporate culture of your organization, quality needs to evolve and permeate throughout your organization's structure. From the mailroom to the boardroom, quality helps ensure customer satisfaction, investor confidence, effective management, efficient administration, and sound corporate performance.

Setting the Standard for Quality
As the internal audit profession's recognized authority, The IIA is committed to improving internal audit activities worldwide. As evidence of this commitment, The IIA offers external Quality Assessment (QA) services to any organization wishing to go through the process in an effort to validate and/or strengthen its internal audit activity. The IIA not only organizes teams of qualified professionals to conduct external QAs for organizations requesting the service, it also provides the global methodology established for conducting these reviews.

To ensure consistent quality in your audit function and organization, a Quality Assurance and Improvement Program is necessary. The required elements are ongoing and periodic internal quality assessments, external quality assessments, internal monitoring, and assurance that the internal audit activity is complying with the Standards and the Code of Ethics. In order for your audit function to use the statement "conducted in accordance with the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing," your internal audit function must establish a Quality Assurance and Improvement Program that includes both ongoing and periodic internal QAs and undergo an external QA a minimum of once every five years.

Learn More
To receive a no-obligation proposal for an IIA external quality assessment services, please complete and submit an Inquiry Form to quality@theiia.org, or call +1-407-937-1399 if you have any questions. Proposal turnaround time for IIA services is approximately two weeks after we receive all necessary information.