Audits that close the loop, not just tick a box
Running the audit is the easy half. The half that trips people up is proving every finding was actually fixed. That is the half we built for.
An internal audit programme is only as good as its follow-up. A finding raised in March and forgotten by June is worse than no finding at all, because now there is a record that you knew and did nothing. Certify keeps findings alive until they are closed.
How do scheduled audits get started? +
Set the schedule once. On the due date the workflow opens the audit, assigns it to the auditor, and reminds them. Nothing relies on someone remembering the calendar.
What does the auditor actually fill in? +
A form, on a tablet, walking the floor. Checklist items, a pass or fail, a comment, a photo where it helps. It saves to a SharePoint list as they go.
What happens to a failed item? +
A fail raises a corrective action then and there, linked to the audit. It gets an owner and a due date, and it is tracked the same way every other action is.
How do you prove an audit was closed out? +
Each finding carries its own trail from raised to resolved. The audit is not closed until its actions are. The record shows exactly that, with dates.
The short version
Schedule it, run it on a form, raise actions from the fails, and track those actions to a signed close. The audit and its findings live as one connected record, so closing the loop is the default rather than the exception.