Clear ownership, follow-up, and evidence for audit and self-assessment recommendations
Audit Actions is a dedicated ZedX application designed to help organisations manage recommendations, actions, and follow-up arising from internal audits, self-assessments, central government audits, and external audit activity.
It provides a single, structured place to record recommendations, assign ownership, track progress, and capture evidence until actions are fully completed and closed.
By focusing on accountability, transparency, and evidence-based closure, Audit Actions ensures that audit and assurance activity leads to real and sustained improvement.
Record audit and self-assessment recommendations
Assign clear ownership and due dates
Track progress and completion status
Attach and manage supporting evidence
Monitor overdue and high-priority actions
Maintain a complete audit trail of activity
Support internal and external audit follow-up
Provide clear reporting for management and boards
Control access using role-based permissions
Audit Actions allows audit findings and recommendations to be recorded clearly, including the source audit, context, required outcome, and priority.
Each recommendation is tracked as a distinct audit action, ensuring clarity on what must be done rather than relying on narrative audit reports alone.
This provides a structured bridge between audit conclusions and operational change.
Every audit action is assigned a clear owner responsible for delivery.
Progress is tracked using defined statuses, such as not started, in progress, overdue, and completed, providing immediate visibility of follow-up.
This ensures accountability is explicit and actions do not stall or become overlooked.
Audit Actions supports the attachment of evidence to demonstrate completion, such as documents, screenshots, or links.
Evidence can be reviewed and approved as part of the closure process, providing confidence that recommendations have been addressed effectively.
This reduces repeated follow-up and supports both internal and external assurance.
Dashboards provide a clear view of audit actions by status, owner, audit type, priority, and due date.
Overdue actions and high-risk recommendations are easy to identify, enabling timely escalation and intervention.
This supports effective oversight by audit teams, management, and governance forums.
Where management self-assessment identifies control weaknesses requiring formal follow-up, Audit Actions can be used to record recommendations as a self-assessment audit, ensuring consistent tracking, evidence capture, and closure.
Where audit recommendations relate to underlying risks, issues, or incidents, Audit Actions can be linked to Risk Registers to maintain visibility of exposure and context.
Where audit actions drive change delivered through projects or programmes, progress can be referenced within Project Portfolios without duplicating action-level detail.