What does audit admin actually cost you?

Every audit carries work the client never sees on the invoice: scheduling, document chasing, report QA, certificate issuance. Then the accreditation cycle arrives and the same records get assembled by hand all over again. Put your own numbers in and see what that costs per year.

Audit volume

Audits per year

Billed auditor day rate

€

Back office

People on audit coordination (FTE)

Loaded cost per FTE / year

€

Accreditation upkeep

Accreditation scopes maintained

Prep days per scope, per year

Internal audit & management review, days per year

Valued at €250 per internal day.

Share of evidence work removed

Assumptions

Auditor days absorbed by admin, per audit

That is 17% of a 3-day engagement.

Share of that overhead removed

Contribution margin on resold auditor days

Today, per year

Coordination headcount €165,000

Auditor days lost to admin100 days €120,000

Accreditation upkeep52 days across 2 scopes €13,000

Total non-billable overhead €298,000

Recoverable with TIC OS

Back-office capacity freed0.9 FTE €49,500

Auditor days released30 days, resold €14,400

Accreditation prep avoided21 days €5,200

Annual saving

€63,900

€320 per audit · 22% of your overhead

Nothing here is our number. Every figure above is derived from the inputs you set. We publish the arithmetic so you can argue with it.

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Model: coordination cost = FTE × loaded cost. Auditor overhead = audits × days absorbed × day rate. Accreditation upkeep = (scopes × prep days + internal audit days) × your internal day cost, taken as loaded FTE cost over 220 working days. Savings apply your chosen reductions to each pool, with released auditor days valued at your contribution margin. Results are an estimate for discussion, not a quotation.

What does audit admin actually cost you?

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