Mock audit and external audit preparation
For providers with a registration, renewal, monitoring or funding audit ahead.
Prepare for a regulatory audit with a practice review of your systems, records and supporting evidence.
The problem
A mock audit gives your team an opportunity to review its evidence and practise explaining how your organisation operates. We identify gaps and help you prepare a clear action plan before a regulatory audit.
- 01
Discover
- Audit type, scope and timeline confirmed
- Risk profile and history reviewed the way the regulator reviews it
- 02
Diagnose
- Mock audit against every standard in scope
- Evidence framework: what is required, where it lives, who owns it
- 03
Deliver
- Rectify before the audit
- Audit-day coaching and an experienced auditor beside you
- 04
Embed
- Rectification response within the regulator's timeframe if findings remain
- Risk management plan aligned to ISO 31000
Deliverables
- Mock audit report
- Evidence framework and index
- Audit-day plan
- Risk management plan
- Rectification support
Project stages
- Stage 1
Mock audit
- Stage 2
Rectify and organise evidence
- Stage 3
On the day
We agree the project schedule with you before work begins. Regulatory deadlines and assessment times are set by the relevant regulator.
Risk management, step by step (3)
- Establish the context: outcomes, students, sector changes, best practice, market position, resources
- Identify, analyse and evaluate risks and choose treatments: eliminate, minimise, reduce consequences, share
- Develop the risk management plan, then monitor and review it with indicators, responsibilities and resourcing
Pricing
Fixed fee against an agreed scope.
Casual consultation $185 per hour plus GST. Retainers from $1,750 per month plus GST. All prices in Australian dollars. GST is stated on every line.
Regulatory frameworks
CAQA is an independent consultancy. ASQA does not endorse or list consultants.
Case studies
Relevant case studies
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Questions
Frequently asked questions
What does ASQA look at in a risk assessment?
Performance and financial risk indicators, governance indicators such as business planning, ownership transparency and the experience of senior officers, and supplementary indicators including scope, licensed outcomes, overseas students, multiple sites, offshore delivery, subcontracting, fees in advance, students under 18, delivery mode and government contracts.
Changing your compliance consultant?
Send us your current scope and the last audit report. We map what is done, what is open and what is at risk, and quote only the gap. Your evidence stays yours; our fee buys an outcome, not hours.
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