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Auditing and Being Audited
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Process Audit
∞A Process Audit is where the companys procedures are validated.
∞Processes are sub-parts of a system. As such, they are typically a part of a system audit.
•Process audits are almost always a part of a larger system(s) audit. This is not to say that process audits are only performed as a part of a larger systems or registration audit. An internal audit may indicate the need to perform a specific process audit, for example.
∞Almost always, one or more other process(es) will interact with any given process. One very important issue to consider is the effectiveness of communications between systems and/or processes.
There is an interesting thread in which these issues are addressed:

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