John Yu is an internal auditor currently assigned to a new internal audit assignment at the HR department. However, he is noticing that HR department audit subjects are not cooperative in assisting his requests. On multiple occasions, he noticed that people are avoiding him. John talked to his audit partner, Michelle, and she informed that HR has always been "unfriendly." Which of the following action should John take? a. Raise the issue to the HR manager and reiterate the authority and objective from the audit charter b. Report the the audit committee directly and communicate the risks of scope limitation due to uncooperative auditee. c. Participate in HR department functions and get to know the audit subjects in order to build better rapport. d. Do nothing, it is important that audit subjects and the auditor maintains an arms-length relationship.
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41. John Yu is an internal auditor currently assigned to a new internal audit assignment at the HR department. However, he is noticing that HR department audit subjects are not cooperative in assisting his requests. On multiple occasions, he noticed that people are avoiding him. John talked to his audit partner, Michelle, and she informed that HR has always been "unfriendly." Which of the following action should John take?
a. Raise the issue to the HR manager and reiterate the authority and objective from the audit charter
b. Report the the audit committee directly and communicate the risks of scope limitation due to uncooperative auditee.
c. Participate in HR department functions and get to know the audit subjects in order to build better rapport.
d. Do nothing, it is important that audit subjects and the auditor maintains an arms-length relationship.
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