I am looking at creating a procedure manual for the audit department and would like some input. If you have a procedure manual for the audit department, what type of areas are included? I know each bank will be different and I know it will be an ongoing process, but I would like to include as much as possible the first go around.

MackenzieS created one in bankers tools here

Thanks Wendy, I should have looked there. I was also thinking of incorporating other tasks we complete in the audit department; such as Confirmations on dormants and risk assessment procedures.

Sounds like a big job! Are you cloning yourself?

Well, you know I have all of this spare time!

I guess I am just getting tired of explaining everything time and time again to the examiners and auditors...maybe this way I can just hand the manual over.

I actually created a procedures manual that addresses my daily, monthly, and annual responsibilities. I did have some time to kill back in February.....

I am a believer that people like to hoard information in their heads because that somehow makes them indispensible...not me. If something happens to me they have all of my procedures and links to my Word/Excel documents. It came in handy while I was on vacation, my assistant referenced the applicable section in my manual that addressed the 314(a) information requests and she was able to prepare and distribute the information without a word from me.

Its funny, as an Auditor I am always writting in my audit findings that others should have written policies and procedures...and yet I didn't have any myself. I thought maybe it was time.