Adequacy Audit or Document Review:
- System or management audit.
- Determine the extent to which document system represent by the quality manual and procedures meets the requirements of applicable standards.
Compliance Audit or Onsite Audit:
- Seeks to establish the extent to which the documented system is implemented and observed by workforce.
External Audit:
- Performed by company on its own suppliers.
- It may be an adequacy or compliance report.
Internal Audit
- Most important and requires to look on own system, procedures and activities in order to ascertain whether it is adequate and complied with it.
- It provides management with information whether their policies are meet or not.
- It provide line of communication throughout the company.