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Adequate is not the same as sufficient

Evidence can be the right kind and still not enough of it. Adequacy is about whether an artifact answers the requirement; sufficiency is about whether it covers the scope.

Not all evidence is equally believable

Audit practice ranks evidence by how far it sits from the party with an interest in the outcome. Organizations can choose what their procedures produce, and stronger evidence usually costs no more than weak evidence.