A review of the new features in Audit Master 3.0 Audit Master 3 is a powerful and effective application that has been developed to provide managers and auditors alike with the ability to conduct and track audits through short term and long term cycles, and to provide historic analysis of these events for process improvement, organization wide. It provides the professional level tools necessary to design, develop, and execute a world-class audits at any organizational level. Audit Master 3 provides an automatic generation of Issues and Problems driven by the reported findings from specific audits, ensuring that an effective notification process has been initiated. It accomplishes this through the use of its independent Corrective Action module, or as an integrated feature of HGI's Corporate Action System, CA-5. The advanced functionality of Audit Master allows you to schedule audits, build audit templates, enter checklist items, and tailor them to match your business needs and notify everyone involved. When you need to create a new audit, you can copy an existing one or drag-and drop checklist items from your growing checklist catalog. As you perform the audit, enter your observations or findings, and then print Corrective Action Requests and the Audit Performance Report. Audit Master keeps track of all the open items until your problems have been resolved.
Key Features
Easily customize Audit Master to meet your company's specifications. Manage available reports, customize field labels and type, establish keywords, insert company logo and control automated version sensing.
The extensive querying feature lets you optimize your use of Audit Master by receiving the exact data you need.
- Reports can be custom configured for a variety of needs. (Using Crystal Reports.)
- Password Protection and User Access Controls allow control of access to data for each user.
- User preferences, such as color coding, automatic login, action alerts and version sensing, can be tailored to a user's specific needs.
- Audit Master provides the advanced user interface feature of drag and drop. This means that in many areas of the program, the user can simple click on a record with the mouse and move it over to another screen.
- Audit Master now contains various settings that will let you customize the way you score and total audits. You have the option of not displaying scores for audit items, score audit items with a single value or score audit items as a score out of a total possible score.
- Audit Master now tracks User Information. The program contains a User List where you can enter detailed information for each employee and assign employees to workgroups. Additionally, user access rights can be established for each workgroup.
Q&A
What is Audit Master?
Audit Master 3.0 is a powerful and effective application that has been developed to provide managers and auditors alike with the ability to conduct and track audits through short term and long term cycles, and to provide historical analysis of these events for process improvement, organization wide.
What are the system requirements?
Audit Master runs on Windows 95/98/NT and requires each user to have a Pentium class PC capable of running modern desktop applications such as Word or Excel. Generally, a P-90 with 32 MB RAM is the bare minimum.
Can I import my existing data into Audit Master 3.0?
Since Audit Master uses Microsoft Access 97, it is often feasible (using standard import capabilities built into Access) to import data. Field names are user-friendly and our databases are well documented. Note: The Harrington Group offers custom data services.
Does Audit Master work with other Harrington Products?
Audit Master 3.0 is tightly integrated with C/A 5. When an Audit Master Database is established, you can optionally have findings stored into a C/A 5 database. C/A 5 gives you extensive, and advanced problem tracking features, added user definable fields, the complete Action System, and problem reporting.
Should I purchase C/A 5 and Audit Master 3 Together?
Audit Master 3.0 and C/A 5 can be used together to find and correct problems throughout your company. Audit Master 3.0 provides you with an easy way to generate, document, and schedule your audits. Once an audit is complete and you have found non-conformances, the Corrective Action process takes over. C/A 5 helps you track, quantify, and resolve any type of non-conformance, ensuring the problems are investigated, solved, and prevented in the future. Together, Audit Master 3.0 and C/A 5 can make your auditing and corrective action tasks successful.
Can I use Audit Master with caWeb?
Yes. Audit Master 3.0 will work perfectly with caWeb. Audit Master 3.0 has been designed to work will all the C/A 5 Corporate Action components.
How do I convert my old database to the new version of Audit Master?
From the Audit List, choose Open Database from the File menu. In the File Name box, type or select the name of the database you would like to open. Then select the Open button. Audit Master will notify you that the database is in an older format. Choose Yes to update the database, or No to cancel the action.
How do I open a Corrective Action for an item ?
From the Item Detail screen, specify the Finding Status (pass, fail or N/A) before opening a corrective action. Notice that the Issue Problem button becomes active when the finding is set. Select the Issue Problem button from the Toolbar. Various fields will appear in the lower half of the screen. Fill in the appropriate information and select Save. Your Audit Master Finding is now opened.
Which databases does Audit Master work with?
Although Audit Master is a VB6 program, it stores all data into the Microsoft Access 97 database components shipped with the application.
Is there a limit on how many records I can add?
No, there is no limit. The only restriction is the size of your hard drive.
When I bring up my Audit List, all or most of my Audits are gone?
A query has been applied to the Audit List. At the top of the Audit List window, choose the "All Audits" query and all audits will appear.
