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Add Quality to Your Audit Reports: Techniques and Standards

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A well-written audit report is critical to getting management’s acceptance of your findings and their agreement with your recommendations. Our upcoming webinar discusses the seven audit report quality elements and how to write areport that adds value to your clients’ businesses . The webinar covers the following key areas: ·          A review of the audit checklist and standards related to audit report quality ·          A detailed review of each of the seven report quality elements ·          Various quality report exercises LEARNING OBJECTIVES The objective of this operational audit report training is to: Provide a review of the operational audit process and standards related to audit report quality Provide a detailed review of each of the seven report quality elements: Accurate Objective Clear Concise Constructive Complete T...

Writing Quality Audit Reports: Techniques and Standards

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OVERVIEW How well you communicate the audit observations is critical to getting management’s acceptance of your findings and their agreement with your recommendations. A well written compliance audit report adds value to your clients by providing information that is: Accurate Objective Clear Concise Constructive Complete Timely In addition to audit reports, these elements can apply to all kinds of writings including: Executive summaries Fraud investigations Consulting reports Memos General correspondence WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND The objective of any report is to provide important information to management in the area reviewed. It represents the end result of weeks of reviews, analyses, interviews and discussions. The quality of that report will have an impact on how well the report is understood and accepted. A report with the best information and recommendations may not be acted upon if the report is poorly written and hard to understand. Poor quality re...

Putting the Quality in Audit Reports

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OVERVIEW How well you communicate that information is critical to getting management’s acceptance of your findings and their agreement with your recommendations. A well written audit report adds value to your clients by providing information that is: Accurate Objective Clear Concise Constructive Complete Timely In addition to audit reports, these elements can apply to all kinds of writings including: Executive summaries Fraud investigations Consulting reports Memos General correspondence WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND The objective of any report is to provide important information to management in the area reviewed. It represents the end result of weeks of reviews, analyses, interviews and discussions. The quality of that report will have an impact on how well the report is understood and accepted. A report with the best information and recommendations may not be acted upon if the report is poorly written and hard to understand. Poor quality rep...