AI-Powered Audit Planning - Efficient Course Overview

Summary

This four-hour, hands-on audit planning course teaches participants how to apply AI tools for audits, including ChatGPT, to make ISO 9001:2026 internal audit planning more organized and efficient. The course focuses specifically on planning activities where AI can provide practical assistance, such as gathering background information, identifying relevant inputs, drafting audit plans and schedules, preparing communications, and creating planning templates. Participants will practice writing effective prompts and refining AI-generated materials to align with their organization and audit objectives. The course does not cover using AI to conduct an audit, develop audit questions, evaluate evidence, or make audit conclusions.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

- Recognize internal audit planning activities that can benefit from AI assistance.

- Write effective prompts that provide the context needed to generate useful planning materials.

- Organize information about the processes, departments, locations, and activities included in an ISO 9001 audit with the assistance of AI.

- Draft clearly defined audit objectives, scope, and criteria using AI-supported methods.

- Identify potentially relevant ISO 9001:2026 requirements through carefully constructed AI prompts.

- Incorporate previous audit results, process changes, performance information, and organizational risks into AI-assisted planning activities.

- Generate a preliminary internal audit plan and schedule based on the audit’s scope, timing, and available resources.

- Create pre-audit document and record request lists tailored to the processes being audited.

- Prepare clear pre-audit communications for process owners and other participants.

- Customize and verify AI-generated planning materials before putting them into use.

- Apply appropriate safeguards to protect confidential, proprietary, and sensitive information when working with AI tools.