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CERWIA Certificate in Effective Report Writing for Internal Auditors
This course is designed to help internal auditors to understand best practices in internal audit reporting. This course also provides knowledge to demonstrate your ability to:
Develop a collaborative approach while completing the audit
Enhance your communication skills
Focus on core findings to maximize outcomes
Focus on strategic organizational risks while reporting
Add value for your organization and for the auditee
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Understand key elements of the audit report.
Learn executive summaries approaches.
Write reports with impact and concision.
Produce effective reporting supporting the official report.
Prepare an efficient follow-up process with the organization.
The 5 dilemmas of audit reporting
What is a best practice report?
Top tips – communicating results
The challenges of audit reporting
Grabbing attention
Getting the message across
Getting action
The need for impact
Ideas on creating impact
What management expect – recent survey of chief executive
IIA professional standards
The 35 questions (all based on best practice) – how did you score?
What are the factors preventing the achievement of these best practice measures
30 tips, techniques and ideas to help you score a maximum
- How to get 95% of recommendations implemented
- Use of charts and photos
- Dealing with minor issues
- Future focus
- Order of importance of the issues
- Actions rather than recommendations
- Action plans
Discussion of the implications
How to assess the needs of the audit customers
The role of the executive summary
20 tips for writing better summaries
Targeting the executive summary to the reader
The benefits of writing the executive summary before the main report
Asking a non-technical person to read it
The psychological problem with reports
The need to meet and hopefully exceed management expectations
The need to focus on benefits rather than problems
Marketing the audit reporting process
An example presentation will be shared
Relationships with management
Expressing yourself effectively
The need to drive action
Creating rapport with your customers – tips and techniques
The need to understand the people receiving the reports
Messages rather than content
Outcomes rather than output
Solutions not problems
Auditor and reader mindsets
Why audit reports are taken as a criticism of management
Ways to make the reports more positive
Benefits and deliverables
Conclusions
How to draft a report with impact – discussion of banner headlines and their relative impact
Language and impact
Simple and complex language
The use of ‘power words’ in your communications
How to get on the same wavelength as your customer
Highlighting the issues that matter
Audit observations
New paper on audit observations will be shared
Causes and effects
Keeping it simple
The report process
Writing the main report
Dealing with writer’s block
Audit objectives
Scope
Forming and expressing the audit opinion
Wording tips
Tone
Writing effective coherent sentences and paragraphs
The editing process – tips for success
The power of senior management comments
Circulation lists
Formatting ideas
How to avoid repeating any sections in the executive summary
Words and phrases to avoid
How to reduce the number of words
Why the spellchecker sometimes does not help you
Dealing with the difficulties of the English language
Recommendations and actions plans
Management comments
How to reflect the right issues for the Audit Committee
Audit Committee report examples
The need to be on your customers’ side
Follow up audits – using the action plan
How to get management to take responsibility for actions
Ways to improve the follow-up process
Issuing the report
Presenting or issuing reports including the use of e-mail and the Intranet
Alternative methods of reporting e.g. PowerPoint
Examples of excellent reports will be provided
Reporting performance indicators
Tracking actions
Steps to success
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