The management of a team of auditors involves knowledge of professional standards and leadership of the individuals on the team. Stress and unexpected developments are not unusual events during an audit. The team leaders have to be prepared to react and make decisions that perhaps they have never experienced before.

Please describe what you think are appropriate actions if you were the audit team leader as a manager, and you had the following issues arise on the audit (treat them as individual, unrelated items):

1) Your deadline to finish the audit is in two weeks, and you have five staff working to finish the audit at the clients office. On Monday morning one of your staff members does not show up at the client and is not responding to calls or text messages. What do you do?

2) A junior member of the audit team asks to see you in private he tells you that one of the other staff auditors is spending a lot of time on social media during the work day seems very distracted. What do you do?

3) The timing of this audit is very near the annual personnel review cycle for your firms professional staff. Of your audit team members, you know that one is likely to be asked to leave the firm due to substandard performance, but that will not happen until some weeks after the audit is complete. That person makes a casual comment in the audit conference room about buying a house soon the staff person and their spouse are looking forward to the career with the firm. What do you do?