Why Are the Findings of The Internal Audit Just the Same

Internal audit is one of the activities that must be carried out by organizations that implement a management system. Ideally over time, the quality of the findings and competence of auditors will continue to improve so that the organization will experience continuous improvement. But sometimes we don't encounter this kind of findings, the same and repeated findings often happen, and it makes the auditee or auditor feel bored.

There are several things that can cause this to happen, including:

• Corrective action is ineffective so that the findings are increasingly repeated. As we know corrective action is an action taken after a discrepancy occurs based on the root of the problem that we encounter to prevent the same event from recurring. But sometimes after we do corrective action, the same incident still happens again. This can happen because it is not appropriate in finding the root of the problem so that the corrective action taken is not on target.
• Internal audits are just a formality. Sometimes there are also companies that conduct internal audits just to meet the standard requirements without seeing that there are benefits that we can take from the implementation of internal audits as well. So internal audit is only a formality that we have already carried out the agenda that we have planned as a requirement in the implementation of the management system.
• Focus only on looking for NC. The existence of a mindset that internal audits are used as a means of finding discrepancies can sometimes trigger this. So that the target number of findings becomes the main focus of the internal auditor. They forget that the purpose of conducting an internal audit is to find opportunities for improvement in the management system implemented in the enterprise.
• No evaluation and analysis of the results of previous internal audits. This is important to do to find out the trend of findings in our organization. After that, we group it based on the cause for us to follow up.

From this we can see that the results of internal audits carry an important role in the implementation of continuous improvement in an organization. The recurrence of a finding with the same cause is likened to walking or even running but not changing places aka walking/running in place. We expended energy but there was no progress we got. It is important for us to keep moving even in a small distance.