INFORMATION AUDIT FOR DECISION PROCESSES

Originating from the Latin auditum - as the endeavor of listening, verifying and recommending - generally the audit translates into a rational and independent contribution to the homeostasis of the audited system. It is a modern buzz word, applied to various systems, from the traditional ones - financial, accounting etc. - to the informational, decisional, communication, bureaucratic ones etc. Under the informational-decisional context, the audit knows specific developments, built on the quality aspect of data or on the stages of the information life cycle. In the following we will present theoretical and practical aspects of information auditing for decision processes, through a case study. The presentation highlights the logical and structural frame of the information audit stages, from planning and definition of the mission to the evaluation and writing the audit report.