Social auditing aims to reflect the views of all stakeholders affected by an organization through a comprehensive, participatory, multidirectional, and regular process. It verifies social accounts that measure an organization's performance against its own past performance and external benchmarks to improve accountability. The six steps of social auditing are preparatory activities, defining audit boundaries and stakeholders, social accounting bookkeeping, preparing and using social accounts, conducting the social audit and disseminating results, and providing feedback and institutionalizing social auditing.
Social auditing aims to reflect the views of all stakeholders affected by an organization through a comprehensive, participatory, multidirectional, and regular process. It verifies social accounts that measure an organization's performance against its own past performance and external benchmarks to improve accountability. The six steps of social auditing are preparatory activities, defining audit boundaries and stakeholders, social accounting bookkeeping, preparing and using social accounts, conducting the social audit and disseminating results, and providing feedback and institutionalizing social auditing.
Social auditing aims to reflect the views of all stakeholders affected by an organization through a comprehensive, participatory, multidirectional, and regular process. It verifies social accounts that measure an organization's performance against its own past performance and external benchmarks to improve accountability. The six steps of social auditing are preparatory activities, defining audit boundaries and stakeholders, social accounting bookkeeping, preparing and using social accounts, conducting the social audit and disseminating results, and providing feedback and institutionalizing social auditing.
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.