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To discuss how we can assist your organization, please call us toll free at: 1.866.254.0000 Outside of the United States, please dial: +1.973.854.4684Preparing for a SAS 70 Audit
The following tools are provided to help service organizations assess their own preparedness for a SAS 70 audit as well as assess potential vendors.
AUDIT PREPAREDNESS TOOLS
SAS 70 Audit Preparedness Checklist
A listing of issues that all service organizations must tackle prior to engaging
a SAS 70 audit firm.
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Is Your Organization Ready for a SAS 70 Audit?
Discover the common organizational characteristics that have historically led to
successful SAS 70 audits.
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10 Keys to a Successful SAS 70 Audit
A description of service organization attributes known to significantly improve
the SAS 70 audit experience.
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10 Ways to Hinder a SAS 70 Audit
A description of service organization attributes known to negatively impact the
SAS 70 audit experience.
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VENDOR EVALUATION TOOLS
SAS 70 Solutions recognizes that the SAS 70 audit concept is a vague topic to many service organizations. Many service organizations have no idea as to which questions should be posed to potential vendors, or which requirements should be incorporated in the competitive bidding process.
In response to these issues, SAS 70 Solutions used its collective professional experience to create the following collection of tools. These tools are designed to improve the vendor selection process for all service organizations, even those that do not select SAS 70 Solutions as their audit firm of choice.
Integrating these tools into a vendor selection process greatly increases the likelihood of satisfaction with the selected audit firm. Additionally, these tools help ensure that service organizations avoid the “pitfalls” that are common to this process. By requiring audit firms to provide logical information in a uniform format, service organizations arm themselves with the critical details necessary to choose the audit firm that best suits their individual needs.
Vendor Interview Questionnaire
This tool contains a collection of critical questions designed to facilitate the
initial conversation between a service organization and a licensed CPA firm. The
responses to these questions provide service organizations with significant insight
as to the SAS 70 experience of the audit firms being considered. The results of
this pre-screening process are the identification of the audit firms that meet the
desired qualifications, as well as the identification of those firms that should
be excluded from any subsequent competitive bidding process.
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Request for Proposal (RFP) Template
The most comprehensive SAS 70 Request for Proposal (RFP) template freely distributed
on the Internet. This document is designed to obtain the same background information
as the Request for Information template, as well as a specific proposal to perform
one or more SAS 70 audits for the service organization. This tool requires that
bidders provide information in a uniform format so that the service organization
can easily compare the capabilities across all vendors.
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