Course Objectives

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Target Audience

This course is suitable for all auditors required to produce and review audit reports.

• What makes a report effective?
  • Good practice in plain language writing
  • Techniques to improve writing under pressure
• Techniques to organize information gathered during fieldwork
  • Traditional report structure
  • Mind-mapping
  • Outlining
• Findings (also called issues or observations)
  • Principles of and approaches to writing findings
  • Risks vs. failed controls
  • Root cause analysis
  • Critiquing findings
  • Crafting findings
• Executive summaries
  • Introduction to the principles underlying executive summaries
  • Critiquing executive summaries
  • Crafting executive summaries
• Preparing the final product
  • Format, layout and templates
  • Reviewing
  • Content vs. mechanics
  • Peer review techniques

This course hasn't been scheduled yet, however you can request for In-House training