Value Added Auditing:4th Edition

By Greg Hutchins

What is Value Added Auditing?
Value Added Auditing (540 pages) is a process and risk-based manual for ISO management system and risk-based audits. The manual can be used to conduct performance, operational, IT, cyber, and supply management assessments. The objective of the manual is to enhance: 1. Risk-based, problem solving and 2. Risk-based, decision making. All ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001 companies should read this book to understand and implement Risk Based Thinking (RBT).

What This Book Can Do for You? The Value Added Auditing offers the following benefits to you, specifically explaining:
•How to plan, conduct and report value added audits so that customers are delighted.
•How to clarify and understand the audit customer's requirements.
•How to evolve from audit policing to risk based, decision making.
•How to identify and manage process risks.
•What are the six steps to managing and planning value added audits.
•What is process management and why it is critical to value added auditors.
•How to develop a tailored value added audit questionnaire.
•What are the eight methods of evaluating service internal process controls.
•What are the steps to gaining an understanding of the audit client.
•How to go beyond compliance to business and process improvement.
•What is the most critical red flag in value added auditing.
•What are six techniques for gathering evidence.
•What are six effective steps for testing quality systems and processes.
•What are eight examples of value added audit reports.

Bonus Materials/Resources:
·Access almost 1,500 risk and quality articles through CERM Academy.
·Get free course materials such as using FMEA’s in ISO 9001:2015.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Greg Hutchins
• Release date: Nov 14, 2018
• ISBN: 9781732554597

Greg Hutchins

Greg Hutchins is the founder of 800Compete.com, WorkingIt.com, CERMAcademy.com, QualityPlusEngineering.com, and other startups. Greg Hutchins is the risk evangelist who coined the expression Future of Quality: Risk®. He can be contacted at [e-mail]. Greg Hutchins PE CERM is also the principal professional engineer Quality + Engineering - international supply and quality management firm. He has written best selling books on global ISO standards and risk management. Greg is the author of ISO 9000 (best selling translated into 8 languages published through John Wiley), Value Added Auditing, ISO 31000: Enterprise Risk Management, ISO Risk Based Thinking, Risk Based Thinking, Supply Management Strategies (APICS, ISM, ASQ endorsed and used in certifications), and Standard Manual of Quality Auditing and more than a dozen article international books. Several Hutchins’ books include: Supply Chain Risk Management:Competing In the Age of Disruption ISO 31000:2018 Enterprise Risk Management Risk Based Thinking Risk Based Auditing:Using ISO 19011:2018 Supply Management Strategies:3rd Edition Value Added Auditing:4th Edition Factory and Sourcing Checklists Operational Excellence Handbook:An Enterprise Approach Q+E is the designer and developer of Certified Enterprise Risk Manager® (CERM), CERM CyberTM certificate, and best selling ISO and ERM books. Q+E has deep domain expertise in ISO 31000, ISO 27001, and NIST 800’s. Q+E designed CERM based on its security IP including Critical Infrastructure Protection: Forensics, Assurance, Analytics®; Value Added AuditingTM; Certified Enterprise Risk Manager®; Future of Quality: Risk®; CERM: Risk Based, Problem Solving | Risk Based, Decision Making®; etc. Q+E has been certified by the Department of Homeland Security for Critical Infrastructure Protection: Forensics, Assurance, Analytics®. Q+E has conducted the following Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) risk assessments: •Analytical. Q+E engineers and scientists conduct analytical analyses following Q+E protocols evaluating business continuity, cyber security, and physical security systems against IEEE, NFPA, ISA, PMI, ISO, NIST, COSO, NERC, DIACAP, FISMA, and ASIS standards. •Assurance. Q+E offers the client three levels of assurance: oCompliance. Q+E conducts a compliance audit against appropriate standards and guidance. oAssurance with opinion. Q+E issues an opinion based on the results of a governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) audit or ERM controls assessment. oAssurance with insurance coverage. Q+E conducts an audit and provides the requisite level of due diligence for the auditee to be covered. •Forensics. Q+E provides the above levels of assurance as well as supplies a letter to the regulatory authority averring compliance that criteria have been met.