APC034
Assign separate personnel or timing to advisory and assurance roles to preserve independence requirements under IIA Standards.
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Regulations
Early Audit Involvement vs Independent Post-Implementation Assurance
Business ContextEarly involvement in major projects can help audit identify risks before systems, processes, or controls become difficult to change. Extensive participation can later make independent evaluation difficult because auditors may be reviewing decisions they previously influenced.
Audit TRIZ ResolutionSeparate advisory and assurance roles by responsibility, personnel, timing, or review structure. Early audit participation focuses on risk identification and control objectives without owning design decisions, while subsequent assurance is performed independently where self-review risk would otherwise arise.
Applicable TRIZ Principles
Principle 1 – Segmentation separates advisory and assurance activities.
Principle 2 – Taking Out removes management design and implementation responsibility from audit participation.
Principle 19 – Periodic Action changes the audit role as the project moves from design through implementation to operation.
Expected Outcome
Earlier identification of project risks
Preserved independent assurance
Clearer responsibility boundaries
Reduced post-implementation control failures
Decision Indicators
Auditors design controls they later test.
Project teams request audit approval for management decisions.
Audit avoids projects entirely until implementation is complete.
Independent reviewers question prior audit involvement.
Responsibility for design deficiencies becomes unclear.