Welcome to IRCA's quaterly e-zine.

As companies demand more from their audit, Anil Kumar looks at how innovation will play a huge role in the industry over the coming century

Unwieldy and sometimes irrelevant, Maata Outi of SGS explains how her company came up with the single food audit

After four years of IRCA's accelerated learning courses, Bob Scotney assesses past challenges and looks forward to the possibilities ahead

Paul Hardiman takes a look at the automotive industry quality management specification and explains how it's shaped up

A case study of IMS implementation at one company leaves the head of the audit programme, Gail Sheppard, singing the praises of the humble camera

Do you practice what you preach? Is your auditing ethically up to scratch? See how you score on our APG quiz

A cynic, unrealistic or a know it all; what kind of auditor are you, asks Aanas Ruhomaully?

Nigel Wickens wonders whether the ‘process nuts’ stick with ISO 9001:2000 and the real world return to BS5750:1987

Chief executive of the Association of British Certification Bodies, Tim Inman, talks about his organisation's campaigns and his belief that auditor competence is being overlooked by some accreditation bodies