2 steps backward.
It never fails. Take a process and automate it. Hurray, progress... in walks internal audit. Well see here, now you have to establish controls for the automation and test them.
End result, the work saved in automation results in new work just to show automation is working. Brainstorm.. hey let's add these scripts to automate these control tasks. Hurray.
- in walks internal audit... So.. how do you know those scripts are doing what you say they are doing. You need some controls and test that they are functioning properly....
The cycle never ends.