Some tips: Learn the details of the business you're auditing Ask questions before requesting some tie-out that does not exist Know which people to ask specific questions Stop looking for random shit just to fill billable hours

Also, just because you need so and so by such and such date, does not mean that we're going to go out of way to adjust our set schedule for you. You can send emails to me and my manager, we don't give a fuck because you're not going to issue an unfavorable opinion letter and lose our business. Actually, I go out of my way to make the in house B4 auditors feel like the biggest idiots (they are). To all the underpaid and overworked Kool-Aid swallowers, go ahead and downvote me.