This award celebrates teamwork of the audit team that has had a positive impact on an organisation's performance.This award recognises exemplary audit work within firms. This award seeks to distinguish the audit advice that has delivered greatest measurable benefit to the client, without compromising professional standards. Entries must demonstrate how they consistently deliver a service beyond business as usual, best practice, added value to the client and deliver cutting edge ideas. The winning team will have a strong sense of collaboration and partnering with the client, in addition to forward thinking, generating improvements and new innovations.
ELIGIBILITY
Open to any audit team operating at an accountancy firm within the region in the last 12 months
Judging Criteria
The awards under this category will be judged against the following key criteria:
- The innovation of the team: Explain how the work of the team has demonstrated innovation.
- Return on Investment: Evidence of the return on investment and how this has been validated.
- Quality of Management: Demonstrate the quality of work and management.
- Impact of the team and teamwork: What was the impact and how was this measured.
QUALITATIVE CRITERIA
- Credit will be given for evidence of the team’s success
- Evidence of their technical ability
- Application of innovative ideas
- Demonstrating quality audit advice for clients
- Testimonial(s) may be provided
METRICS
- Overall Quality (5%)
- People (15%)
- Customer Experience (15%)
- Process (20%)
- Technology (15%)
- Challenges (20%)
- Virtual Tour (10%)
ADDITIONAL CRITERIA
The judges will be looking for evidence that demonstrates how the teams meet the following criteria:
- Clearly communicate why they are worthy winners
- How their achievement fits with their organisation's purpose
- How they have positively impacted their organisation
- Adaptability - How have they adapted their approach/behaviour to achieve what they have?
- What have they overcome to achieve this?
- Communication - How have they shared their goals with the organisation and other team members?
- Collaboration - How has the team involved other departments in their organisation to avoid a silo approach?
- Innovation - How, as a team would they define innovation and how they have used innovation in achieving their goals?
- Appreciation - When and How have they acknowledged everyone's involvement?
Area of Assessment
Impact on client or organisation
Quality of Management
Return on investment
Innovation
