Why do the complex, judgment-heavy audits still trip me up?

You can run the standard audit without thinking now. The checklist carries you through. But hand you a case with no clean answer, and you stall. You wait for someone else to call it. Or you call it and doubt yourself for days. This is not a knowledge gap. You already know the rules. What you lack is practice making the call when the rules run out. And the nerve to stand behind it once you have. That comes only from doing it — badly at first — with people who will tell you the truth. You are not doing this alone — use that. A team watching you reason through a hard case catches what you cannot see in yourself: where you flinched, where you guessed, where you got lucky. Stop hiding the hard ones from the group. Bring them into the room.