The Sample - What Is Scope Creep?
In this episode of THE SAMPLE, Leita Hart-Fanta, CPA answers the question, "What is scope creep?" Isn't that a funny title? It's not so funny when it happens to you, however. We'll go over some tips to help you avoid this.
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Welcome to The Sample, a quick discussion of auditing concepts and terms that will help you do your work. Conducting an audit in accordance with auditing standards is no small feat and I want to support you. We'll be referring to the GAO (https://www.gao.gov), IIA (https://na.theiia.org/Pages/IIAHome.aspx) and AICPA (https://www.aicpa.org) literature to bolster our conversations. Let's get started.
This episode, we answer the question, "What is scope creep?" Isn't that a funny title? And this funny picture. It's not so funny when it happens to you, however. When your project goes off the rails, because you saw a shiny object and you decided to go look at it and it's going to make your audit report all bizarre.
Here's your objective and scope in this bigger bubble, and then these smaller bubbles represent things that are outside of your objective and scope, and when you see something like that, when you see something that's outside of your objective and scope, you have to formally take care of it. I'm going to draw a little picture to illustrate this. Watch my fabulous drawing skills here.
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