Faculty of Business, Communication and Finance
Designing & Writing Internal Audit Report
28th October – 1st November 2024 – Rotterdam
26th – 30th February 2025 – Rotterdam
This course gives the participants the distinctive opportunity to go through the processes in the preparation and writing of an internal audit report.
Most importantly, participants will understand how audit recommendations are presented to enable management use them for decisions. Participants will come of this training with better oral and written communication styles. Above all, it covers all levels and types of internal audit reporting
Course Objectives
At the end of the course, participants should be able to:
- Understand the procedure for the presentation of an internal auditor’s report
- Acquire the necessary report writing skills with practical examples
- Draw a detailed analysis of the structure of an internal auditor’s report
- Learn the principles of time, personnel and financial resources distribution used in an internal auditor’s report preparation
- Learn how to use illustrations
- See how to write with greater clarity
Target Participants
Managers and staff who use internal auditor’s report in their work, who want to optimize the process of internal auditor’s report preparations and to create well written reports that can be used to bring about positive change and improvements.
Outline
- Internal Audit Report Design Principles
- Application and Analysis of Professional Standards of Internal Audit
- Audit Opinions and Risk Factors
- The Hard Facts: Audit Findings
- Stakeholder Requirements and Structuring Reports to Meeting their Needs
- Information Sources for the Audit Report
- Report Purposes and Elements: Content and Logical Structure
- Defining Report Structure and Topics based on User’s Expectations
- Writing Audit Finding: Different Styles
- Effective Audit Communications
- Selection of Key Findings to Include in the Report
- Selecting the Right Style and Method of Presenting Information
- Audit Report Formatting
- The Internal Audit Report Writing- Toolkit (Executive summary recommended format, writing of recommendations of an internal auditor: grammatical and stylistic peculiarities, preparing to present an internal auditor’s report: editing and self-editing, presenting an auditor’s report: using text and graphics, strategies for answering questions, reconciliation of an action plan.
- Case Studies
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