Audit Report Writing

Course ID: 129                         Course Length: 2 day(s)

Overview:

This workshop teaches participants the aspects of writing audit reports. You will learn to: (1) write reports in order for readers to find facts to form decisions, and (2) interest your clients in implementing as many of your recommendations as possible. This course is geared toward financial, operational, internal and federal auditors with less than two years of experience; financial managers; new staff accountants; and new management analysts and consultants.

Objectives:
At the end of the workshop participants should be able to:

• Design a report to solve the problem of multiple
  audiences
• Understand Clear Condition and Root Cause
  Analysis (RCA)
• Explain the effect objectives have on finding
  and message formulation
• Learn to write recommendations for process-oriented
  and results-oriented audits that identify the
  performance aspects and finding elements to be
  developed and form an outline for the report
• Ensure audits are properly prepared, referenced and
  linked to satisfy MQAS (Management Quality Assurance
  Services) and external oversight
• Organize a finding that answers the audit objectives
  using different outline methods and advance organizers
  such as captions and topic sentences
• Draft key points including factual matters that support
  condition statements
• Develop a “User-Friendly” writing style
• Enhance report readability with use of advance
  organizers

Topics:

• What is an audit?
• Internal audits and operational audits
• What is a User Friendly Audit Report
• Audit objectives
• Commonly used units
• Making recommendations clear
• Explaining assumptions
• Reports
• Organizing the report message to answer the
  audit question
• Writing a finding synopsis
• Short Form Audit Report
• Feedback
• Write an audit report
• Review

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