Audit

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːdɪt

Origin

From Latin audītus, from audiō ("I hear").

Full definition of audit

Noun

1. An audience; a hearing.
• MiltonHe appeals to a high audit.
2. An examination in general.
3. A judicial examination.
4. An independent review and examination of records and activities to assess the adequacy of system controls, to ensure compliance with established policies and operational procedures, and to recommend necessary changes in controls, policies, or proceduresNational Assembly audit
5. The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account.
• ShakespeareYet I can make my audit up.
6. (Scientology) Spiritual counseling, which forms the core of Dianetics.
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• 2007 , Handbook of the New Age Chapter New Age and Business: Corporations as Cultic Milieus? , Some spiritual management trainings, aiming at the self-actualisation—or rather self-realisation—in the corporate world, have advocated a rather authoritarian treatment of their trainees. A well-known example is Landmark Education International, Inc., a management-oriented derivate of Werner Erhard's famous seminars called est (an acronym for Erhard Seminars Training) developed in the 1970s. Participants of Erhard's seminars were typically treated as follows ... In an article of the German management magazine Wirtschaftswoche, Landmark was indeed accused of 'brainwashing' ... The trainings of Landmark, Block Training and UP Hans Schuster und Partner thus display strong similarities with the self-improvement seminars of Scientology, which are incidentally called 'auditing sessions', a term taken from the business world.
7. (obsolete) A general receptacle or receiver.
• Jeremy TaylorIt little brook paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud.

Derived terms

• audit ale
• audit house
• audit room

Verb

1. To examine and adjust (e.g. an account).to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court
2. (finance, business) To conduct an independent review and examination of system records and activities in order to test the adequacy and effectiveness of data security and data integrity procedures, to ensure compliance with established policy and operational procedures, and to recommend any necessary changes
3. (Scientology) To counsel spiritually.
• 2011, Diane Saks, Overcoming Celebrity Obsession (page 225)In John's case, I suspect, when he lost Diana he went back to his Scientology church to be audited.
4. To attend an academic class on a not-for-academic-credit basis.