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Power and social role of auditing

1. Define social audit?


2. Purpose of the social audit:
• Multi-perspective: Aim to reflect the views of all those people affected by
Organization.
• Comprehensive: Aim to report on all aspects of the Organization work.
• Participatory: Encourage participation of stakeholders and Sharing of their
values.
• Multidirectional: Stakeholders share and gives feedback on multiple aspects.
• Regular: Aim to Produce on a regular basis.
• Verification: Ensure that the social accounts are audited by a suitably skilled
person and agency.
• Comparative: The Organization can compare its own performance each year
and against external norms or beanch marks.
Power and social role of auditing
Six steps of social auditing :
1. Preparatory activities.
2. Defining audit boundaries and identifying stakeholders
3. Social accounting book-keeping
4. Preparing and using social accounts.
5. Social audit and dissemination.
6. Feed back and institutionalization of social audit.

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