1. Purpose of the gate
This gate checks that the system is not only written but running. Before internal auditors spend time on a full audit cycle, the organisation confirms that every process has produced a representative set of records, that the support processes the rest of the system depends on are working, and that process measures are being reported against their targets.
The gate is a check of evidence, not of perfection. Some processes will show weak results; what matters is that the weakness is visible in the measures and that actions have been started. A process that has produced no records yet is not ready for audit.
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