Course detail
Quality System Audits
FSI-XAK-KAcad. year: 2024/2025
The graduate will acquire the necessary overview about the principles and techniques for planning, organizing and conducting a quality management systems audit. Student will learn to manage an audit programme, plan conduct and evaluate an internal audit of the management system. He/she is acquainted with current requirements for the auditor and audit team competence and their evaluation. The lessons are designed in three segments: 1. General audit requirements (CSN ISO 19011); 2. Specific requirements of the audit subject; 3. Practical examples of technological processes.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Attendance at lectures is voluntary, however recommended. Credit is awarded based on final test and semester project.
Aims
The subject of Quality system audits enables the graduates to acquire knowledge about the principles and techniques for planning, organizing and conducting a management systems audit. Students learn to manage an audit programme, plan and conduct an internal audit of the management system. He/she is also familiarised with current requirements for the auditor and audit team competence.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Kafka, T., Průvodce pro interní audit a risk management. Praha: vydavatelství C. H. Beck, 2009. ISBN: 978-80-7400-121-5
Kagermann, H. and all, Internal Audit Handbook. Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008. ISBN 978-3-540-70886-5
Russell, J. P., The Asq Auditing Handbook: Principles, Implementation, and Use. Milwaukee: ASQ Quality Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-87389-666-51
Recommended reading
Fiala, A. a jiní, Management procesů. Praha: Verlag Dashöfer, 2006-2011
Russell, J. P., The Internal Auditing Pocket Guide: Preparing, Performing, Reporting, and Follow-up. Milwaukee: ASQ Quality Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-87389-710-5
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme N-KSB-K Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Guided consultation in combined form of studies
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Course content, introduction to auditing.
- Audits of management systems. Basic terms and definitions. Comprehensions auditing.
- Types of audits. Internal audits, supplier audits, third-party audits.
- Internal audit process, external audit process (process approach, planned audits, audit criteria).
- Audit program. Audit program management process (specific requirements of audit areas).
- Auditing. Characteristic activities during audits (examples of technological and special processes).
- Information collection and verification process.
- Methods of analysis of results, preparation of audit conclusions (examples of technological and special processes).).
- Preparation and distribution of audit reports (examples of technological and special processes).
- Completion of audit (examples of technological and special processes).
- Carrying out follow-up audit. Corrective actions and final evaluation (examples of technological and special processes).
- Competence of auditors. Evaluation criteria for auditors.
- Methods of auditors evaluation. Conducting evaluations of auditors. The process of maintaining and improving the competencies of auditors.
Guided consultation
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Course content, introduction to auditing.
- Audits of management systems. Basic terms and definitions. Comprehensions auditing.
- Types of audits. Internal audits, supplier audits, third-party audits.
- Internal audit process, external audit process (process approach, planned audits, audit criteria).
- Audit program. Audit program management process (specific requirements of audit areas).
- Auditing. Characteristic activities during audits (examples of technological and special processes).
- Information collection and verification process.
- Methods of analysis of results, preparation of audit conclusions (examples of technological and special processes).).
- Preparation and distribution of audit reports (examples of technological and special processes).
- Completion of audit (examples of technological and special processes).
- Carrying out follow-up audit. Corrective actions and final evaluation (examples of technological and special processes).
- Competence of auditors. Evaluation criteria for auditors.
- Methods of auditors evaluation. Conducting evaluations of auditors. The process of maintaining and improving the competencies of auditors.