The number of quality assurance assessments is expected to rise rapidly over the next few years. For organisations that have not gone through the external quality assurance process in the past, though, it may be difficult to know just how to get started. SSPL can help you to get started relatively painlessly.

• Provide an education on the new Standards, Practice Advisories, and Code of Ethics. This can take up to two days.
  
• Perform an external quality assessment (QA) for your function. A QA may take one to two weeks depending on the size of your audit organisation.
  
• Conduct an independent validation if you have conducted a self assessment. This alternative approach is suitable for small internal audit activities. It takes several days for an external, independent validator to confirm the self assessment results.