ETQ031
Embed quality checks within engagement workflows so teams own quality throughout execution, reserving central review for complex judgments and thematic oversight.
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Regulations
Centralized Quality Control vs Engagement-Level Responsibility
Business ContextCentral quality teams can provide consistency, specialist review, and independent challenge across the audit function. Excessive dependence on centralized review can encourage engagement teams to treat quality as something verified after their work rather than something they own throughout execution.
Audit TRIZ ResolutionEmbed quality controls within engagement execution while reserving central review for significant judgments, thematic monitoring, methodology compliance, and independent quality assessment. Quality responsibility remains with the engagement team rather than being transferred to the reviewer.
Applicable TRIZ Principles
Principle 25 – Self-Service embeds quality checks directly into engagement-team workflows.
Principle 3 – Local Quality applies centralized review where risk or complexity justifies it.
Principle 23 – Feedback uses central quality findings to improve future engagement practices.
Expected Outcome
Stronger engagement ownership
More efficient central review
Earlier correction of deficiencies
More consistent audit quality
Decision Indicators
Teams rely on central reviewers to identify basic documentation deficiencies.
Quality problems are discovered primarily after fieldwork.
Central quality functions become engagement bottlenecks.
Auditors view review comments as responsibility for improving the work.
Similar quality deficiencies recur across engagements.