Report Writing for the Internal Auditor

Why Attend?

Audit departments’ most visible product is the audit report. In many cases, the quality of the report reflects the eﬀectiveness of the audit itself.

Reports must therefore communicate results clearly and concisely, prompting readers to positive action.

Course Overview Course Outline Schedules & Fees

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