In <[email protected]>, on
08/03/2012
at 04:37 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:
>Don't blame the auditors.
Why not? A good auditor is a joy forever, but a bad auditor can cause
immense damage.
>And what do you find wrong with the auditor's action in either of
>these cases?
Dictating policy instead of monitoring compliance to documented
policy.
>It has been discussed, repeatedly, in these pages that the proper
>function of an auditor is to assess conformance to standards,
>government or corporate,
But not to devise their own standards.
>Would you shoot the messenger?
Not an honest messenger, but if he writes his own messages then he
isn't a messenger.
>Of course, if the standards
What standards? They didn't cite any.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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