Objectives Steps of operational audit Generally Operational Audit involves following five steps; Advantages Disadvantages Operational audit is a systematic review of effectiveness, efficiency and economy of operation.
Operational audit is a future-oriented, systematic, and independent evaluation of organizational activities.
In Operational audit financial data may be used, but the primary sources of evidence are the operational policies and achievements related to organizational objectives.
[1] Operational audit is a more comprehensive form of an Internal audit.
The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) defines Operational Audit as a systematic process of evaluating an organization's effectiveness, efficiency and economy of operations under management's control and reporting to appropriate persons the results of the evaluation along with recommendations for improvement; see aside.