Audit vs Diagnosis - What's the difference?
audit | diagnosis |
An audience; a hearing.
* Milton
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
The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account.
* Shakespeare
(Scientology) Spiritual counseling, which forms the core of Dianetics.
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(obsolete) A general receptacle or receiver.
* Jeremy Taylor
To examine and adjust (e.g. an account).
(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)
To attend an academic class on a not-for-academic-credit basis.
(medicine) The identification of the nature and cause of an illness.
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The identification of the nature and cause of something (of any nature).
* Compton Reade
* J. Payn
(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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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)- He appeals to a high audit .
- National Assembly audit
- Yet I can make my audit up.
- 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 roomVerb
(en verb)- to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court
- In John's case, I suspect, when he lost Diana he went back to his Scientology church to be audited .
diagnosis
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Noun
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- The quick eye for effects, the clear diagnosis of men's minds, and the love of epigram.
- My diagnosis of his character proved correct.
- 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.