Designed to assist institutions in evaluating the current status of their academic advising program, this manual provides guidelines and materials used to conduct a four-step audit. Following a brief introduction, an overview of the audit procedure is presented. The next four sections, corresponding to the steps in the audit, are presented: (1) Information Gathering, including a detailed survey instrument designed to collect information about the institution, advising in the academic unit or department, advising offices, and overall institutional effectiveness; (2) Evaluation, which provides a scoring key and accompanying explanation for each item of the survey instrument; (3) Analysis, which provides a key for use in grouping item scores by categories and includes guidelines for identifying areas of strength and weakness; and (4) Action Planning, which offers a series of recommendations for further review, study, and action in areas such as the delivery of advising services; the selection, training, and development of advisors; and advising information systems. The final section, which constitutes the bulk of the manual, consists of additional resources for the development and evaluation of advising programs, including six survey instruments; "The Third ACT (American College Testing Program) National Survey on the Status of Academic Advising," by Wesley R. Habley, and David S. Crockett; "CAS (Council for the Advancement of Standards for Student Services/Developmental Programs) Standards and Guidelines for Student Services/Development Programs"; "CAS Academic Advising Self Assessment Guide"; and a 64-item annotated bibliography. (JSP)