Management Action Plan

Detects populated management action plans and corrective action plans that respond to audit findings: the action-plan phrase combined with a finding reference, a named action owner, a due date or an action status. Phrase-only mentions stay discovery-only.

Type

regex

Confidence

medium

Confidence justification

Enforce tiers require populated owner, date, status or reference fields beside the action-plan phrase; governance pages, generic action plans and blank trackers stay at 65. Medium because project action logs with the same fields can match when they use corrective-action wording.

Jurisdictions

global

Regulations

Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)

Frameworks

DISP, ISO 27001, NIST CSF

Data categories

audit, governance

Scope

narrow

Risk rating

4

Corroborative evidence keywords

critical finding, high risk finding, medium risk finding, low risk finding, priority one, priority two, priority three, required action, audit observation, audit exception

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

• MANAGEMENT ACTION PLAN - Internal Audit Report IA-2026-09 Finding ref: 3.2 Agreed action: implement quarterly user access reviews for the payroll system Action owner: Jordan Staffson, Payroll Manager Due date: 31/12/2026 Status: In progress High risk finding; required action tracked to closure. — Populated action plan - reference, owner, date, status and classification (85)
• Corrective action plan Responsible officer: Avery Teston The revised reconciliation checklist will be issued to all branches. — Plan with a single populated owner field (75)
• Remediation tracking - Q3 2026 audit committee update Observation no: OBS-2026-22 Risk rating: Moderate Revised due date: 28/02/2027 Current status: Overdue Audit observation: backup restoration testing for the claims system has not been evidenced since March. — Remediation tracker with observation number, rating, revised due date, status and audit-observation classification (85)

Should not match

• Policy guidance: every management action plan should name an action owner, a due date and a status, and be reported to the audit committee until closure. — Guidance naming the fields without values
• MANAGEMENT ACTION PLAN Finding ref: __________ Action owner: __________ Due date: __________ Status: __________ — Blank action-plan form - placeholder values
• The regulator said the bank's remediation plan was behind schedule, according to a news report on Monday. — News item
• Action plan for the marketing campaign — Generic action plan
• Management meeting agenda — Unrelated
• The public governance page links to a management action plan. — Public page reference
• Template example: management action plan for a high risk finding with required action, owner, due date, and closure. — Template framing

Known false positives

• Project and marketing action plans. Mitigation: Primary requires audit/corrective/remediation action-plan wording.
• Audit methodology guidance describing what an action plan must contain. Mitigation: No populated fields and guidance framing is excluded.

References

• The IIA - Global Internal Audit Standards