Compliance and quality auditing are terms often used interchangeably. The difference between compliance and quality auditing is that compliance focuses on the rules, regulations, policies and procedures often required by external bodies such as governments, industry bodies as well as the business itself. Quality auditing focuses on ensuring the condition and operations of a business, particularly its goods and services are of a certain standard, whether that is set by external industry bodies or the business’s desired quality level. Quality auditing revolves around ensuring the business is providing the highest quality goods or services to the end customer, and compliance is making sure the processes of creating the goods or service are of a compliant and sufficient standard. Studying quality auditing and compliance together as a double diploma qualification is the most ideal step to take for professionals pursuing a rewarding and secure career. This is because quality audits are a part of many compliance processes and vice versa.