Understanding ASQ-CQA -Body of Knowledge
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Audits<br />
Types <strong>of</strong> Quality Audits IC<br />
External<br />
Secondparty<br />
audit<br />
on<br />
Supplier<br />
First-party<br />
Client<br />
Secondparty<br />
on<br />
you<br />
Desk<br />
Department<br />
Internal<br />
Functional<br />
Third-party<br />
audit for<br />
certification<br />
desk audit or document Review<br />
A desk audit or document review is an audit <strong>of</strong> an organization‘s documents. It can be<br />
conducted at a desk since (1) people are not interviewed and (2) activities are not observed.<br />
If auditing a new area, function, or organization, a desk audit must be conducted<br />
prior to a process or system audit to verify that documents meet requirements specified<br />
in the audit criteria or standards. The document review verifies that there is<br />
an adequately defined process or system prior to the full process or system audit.<br />
Findings from a desk audit or document review help ensure that audit program<br />
resources are used efficiently. It would be very costly if an audit team arrived to do a<br />
system audit, only to find out that the established system was not adequate. Also, a<br />
desk audit or document review may be conducted periodically or when documents<br />
(processes) are changed to verify the adequacy <strong>of</strong> the changes.<br />
Charlie Chong/ Fion Zhang
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