APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING AND MANAGING INFORMATION AUDITS

摘要

A computer-based method and apparatus for auditing a database (114). The invention conducts an audit as specified by a user defined project (118). The project (118) indicates focus groups, filters, skews and whether to count blank entries. The auditor (100) selects a sample of the database (114) described by the project (118). The project descriptive utility (120) presents the sample to the user (116) in a standardized set of reports or on-line forms. The user (116) then determines the number of errors contained in the sample and communicates these data to the database auditor (100). Finally, the database auditor (100) charts areas of accuracy and inaccuracy by field and focus groups and indicates which inaccuracies are due to process errors and which are due to user errors, which indication allows the user (116) to efficiently and effectively correct database inaccuracies.