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.

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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
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