Course Description:

The Audit Report Writing Task

·       Explain Why Audit Reports are Written

·       List the Readers of your Reports

·       Describe How Readers Use the Reports

·       Limitations Placed on Your Reports

·       Importance of Writing Audit Reports

Components of Audit Observations

·       Identify Types of Criteria

·       Create Condition Summaries

·       Determine Levels of Cause and Effect

·       Create Recommendations and Action Plans

·       Components of Audit Observations

Interview and Interrogations

·       Conducting Effective Interrogation

·       Structuring the Interrogation and Interview

·       Purpose of the Investigation and Interrogations

·       Planning and Preparing for the Interrogations

·       Roles and Responsibilities of the Investigator

Audit Report Structure

·       Construct an Audit Report

·       Formats of Writing Audit Report

·       Importance if the Various Sessions

·       Making your Reports Friendly

Quality of Reporting

       ·       Develop Coherence

       ·       Practice Objectivity

       ·       Ensure Sentence Clarity

       ·       Rephrase Technical Terminology

       ·       Write with Readability and Conciseness

       ·       Develop Reports that are Constructive and Timely

Principles of Writing Audit Report 

       ·       Spelling and Grammar Errors

       ·       Proofreading Techniques

       ·       Using Charts, Graphs, Images and Pictures

       ·       Formatting your Documents

FOR WHOM: Internal Auditors, Compliance Officers, Risk Managers, Directors, Heads of Departments, Decision Makers, Business Development Managers, Systems Analysts, Operation Managers, Human Resources Managers and others who perform related functions.