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Audit vs Diagnosis - What's the difference?

audit | diagnosis |

As nouns the difference between audit and diagnosis

is that audit is an audience; a hearing while diagnosis is the identification of the nature and cause of an illness.

As a verb audit

is to examine and adjust (e.g. an account).

audit

English

(wikipedia audit)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An audience; a hearing.
  • * Milton
  • He appeals to a high audit .
  • An examination in general.
  • A judicial examination.
  • An independent review and examination of records and activities to assess the adequacy of system controls, to ensure compliance with established policies and operational procedures, and to recommend necessary changes in controls, policies, or procedures
  • National Assembly audit
  • The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Yet I can make my audit up.
  • (Scientology) Spiritual counseling, which forms the core of Dianetics.
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  • (obsolete) A general receptacle or receiver.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • It [a little brook] paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud.

    Derived terms

    * audit ale * audit house * audit room

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To examine and adjust (e.g. an account).
  • to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court
  • (finance, business) To conduct an independent review and examination of system records and activities in order to test the adequacy and effectiveness of data security and data integrity procedures, to ensure compliance with established policy and operational procedures, and to recommend any necessary changes
  • (Scientology) To counsel spiritually.
  • * 2011 , Diane Saks, Overcoming Celebrity Obsession (page 225)
  • In John's case, I suspect, when he lost Diana he went back to his Scientology church to be audited .
  • To attend an academic class on a not-for-academic-credit basis.
  • diagnosis

    English

    Noun

    (diagnoses)
  • (medicine) The identification of the nature and cause of an illness.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Philip E. Mirowski , title=Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits , volume=100, issue=1, page=87 , magazine= citation , passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
  • The identification of the nature and cause of something (of any nature).
  • * Compton Reade
  • The quick eye for effects, the clear diagnosis of men's minds, and the love of epigram.
  • * J. Payn
  • My diagnosis of his character proved correct.
  • (taxonomy) A written description of a species or other taxon serving to distinguish that species from all others. Especially, a description written in Latin and published.
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  • The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification.

    Derived terms

    * misdiagnosis * overdiagnosis * underdiagnosis * clinical diagnosis * differential diagnosis * physical diagnosis