Process Control 2.5 - Frequency Fields

Hi All,
We have a lot of frequency fields in the PC, could you clarify the purpose and impact ?
1. Operation Frequency in the Control u2013 Does it have any impact on the testing ?
2. What is the impact of the frequencies in the control-rule assignment (and What is the deference, from the technical point of view, of the Compliance and the Monitoring frequencies we set in the control-rule assignment ?)
3. What is the impact of the frequencies in the Scheduler ? (What is the relationship between this one and the ones in the control-rule assignment?)
Thanks in advance

Hi,
The frequency refers to the number of times that you want to test a control over a period of time.The more we test better the confidence level on the controls and its efficacy.Better the confidence level,lesser the smpling size,may be downward revision of the frequency in testing,thus lesser cost of testing and auditing.
As far as the control rule assignement is concerened there may not be any impact owing to the frequency.The rules are configured for facilitting the testing of the controls.This is more of qualitative in nature.
The Scheduler Vs frequency is,we schedule the tests for a frequency as we deem fit.This pertains to auto controls.Barring this there is no relevance between this and the control-Rule assignment.
Regards
Ramesh

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