dbulak said:
Our company president has been trained as an internal auditor. Someone asked me the question "how can he audit when he is in charge of all the people in the company?" My reply was that he is auditing the ISO standard and not directly the people. Am I correct? Would we be open to a third party auditors corrective action for having the president audit? Any help would be appreciated!
If a President/ CEO wants to perform an audit, let him/her. An audit is a fact finding exercise. It gets the auditor to the place where actual tasks are performed. Effective MBWA can come close to auditing. And, is it not tedious for someone to question the President's "independence"? The buck has to stop somewhere and the President is not a bad place (of course, the Board would be even better?)

Considering what it costs in auditee time, I would far rather the President regularly got out to audit than have a registrar come in. It is far more motivating for the Q Prog et al.
And to that original questioner asking, "how can he...", please, get a life! More to the point of Presidents, "How can he/ she NOT!"