Making Your Audit Reports Professional

– Participants will understand how to organize audit reports

– Participants will see how to write with greater clarity

– Participants will learn how to present complex information simply for readers to comprehend

– Participants will understand the importance of the purpose of the report before they begin writing

– Participants will learn how to use illustrations

– Participants will produce final drafts to make the “write” impression with their superiors

CONTENTS:

*Introduction and Overview

– Top Challenges with Audits and Reports

– Auditor Guidance from the “Standards”

*Components of the Audit Report

– Procedure – Evidence – Reporting

– Executive Needs

– Auditor Needs

– Audit Recommendations

*The Hard Facts: Audit Findings

– Testing Controls

– Risk Ranked Findings

– Effective Audit Findings

*Audit Opinions and Risk Factors

– Big Impact!!

*Audit Report Formatting

– Type Faces and Sizes

– Formats for “Findings” Sections

– Specialized Reporting

*Optimizing the Audit Reporting

– Structure, Content and Organization

– Transitions, Flow and Coherence

– Sentences and Paragraphs

FOR WHOM: All Internal Auditors and Risk Managers in the Public and Private Sectors.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.