Effective Audit Report Writing
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| Duration: One and one half days |
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This workshop explains the writing techniques needed to produce clear, concise audit findings. The skills taught are those featured as best practices in an article the instructor wrote for the Journal of the Institute of Internal Auditors, called "Write It Right the First Time." Although the program focuses on audit findings, it also provides guidance and instruction on writing effective emails, narratives, memos and letters.
Participants may be asked to provide writing samples to the instructor two weeks before the program.
| Topics include: |
• Creating a logical flow of information
• Emphasizing the impact or risk
• Five grammar issues for auditors
• How to capture the reader's attention in the first sentence
• Making the tone consultative |
• Shunning the tion
• The components of the audit comment
• Using bulleted items effectively in findings
• Writing concise narratives |
| Benefits of attendance: |
• Ability to produce reports that require less editing and rewriting
• Identify the writing styles that produce buy-in from readers |
• Practice applying effective techniques to one's own findings
• Understand the difference between business and academic writing |
| Staff from the following areas should attend: |
• Administration
• Compliance
• Finance |
• Internal Audit
• Regulatory
• Risk Management |
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