Question about environmental auditing?

Question

What are the different categories of environmental auditing? What are the advantages and disadvantages of these different audits?

Answer 1

*** Internal audit***

+ Low cost

+ Low organisational disruption

+ Operational familiarities with production line

+ Facilitates communication between organisational sections

- Least independent form of auditing

- Less auditing expertise

- Difficult to identify your own mistakes

*** Cross-department audit***

+ More independent

+ Opportunities for information transfer between departments

+ More audit expertise

- Higher cost

- More disruptive to work schedules

- Less operational familiarity

**** External audits***

+ Most independent

+ Highest level of audit expertise

- External audits are very expensive

- Highly disruptive to work schedule

- Low opportunity for information transfer

- Low operational familiarity

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