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Report Writing for the Internal Auditor
DATE
01 - 01 Jan, 1970
LOCATION
To Be Determined;
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 Objectives
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By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Distinguish barriers to effective written communication and identify ways to overcome them
- Identify the target audience and adapt writing accordingly
- Structure the audit report for greater impact
- Present audit findings in a clear and concise manner
- Produce a concise and compelling executive summary
- Learn ways to review their own and others’ work constructively and efficiently
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
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