Make your audit reports more dynamic by using parallelism: Similar words, phrases, bulleted lists and other grammatical elements to emphasize similar ideas in a sentence.
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Active Voice: How Does My Computer Know?
Active voice is generally preferred over passive voice, but there are some instances when you want to use it in an audit report.
Independence is Required of a CPA Performing Yellow Book Audits
It is no surprise that independence is required of a CPA performing Yellow Book audits, but what does surprise many CPAs is how directly the GAO addresses one bad habit that CPA’s continue to engage in.
How to Apologize
In this episode of THE SAMPLE, Leita Hart-Fanta, CPA shares a simple way to apologize, while building your relationship with your auditee.
What Do You Talk About in an Audit Entrance Conference?
The audit entrance conference may be the first time the auditee sees you and has a chance to interact with you. So, you don’t want to go in cold.
What Is In The Background Statement?
A background statement could belong in the back of your audit report in an appendix instead of blocking the reader’s path to the good stuff.
How to Fight the Bureaucracy
In this episode of THE SAMPLE, Leita Hart-Fanta, CPA discusses how to fight the bureaucracy.
Audit Quality Control Standards per the GAO’s Yellow Book
If you are currently part of the AICPA’s peer review program, the Yellow Book’s audit quality control standards won’t surprise or annoy you.
How to Audit the Police
Why audit the police? Public scrutiny of law enforcement operations is currently at unprecedented levels. In this short article, Dan Olson and Erin Kenney explain how to approach an audit of the police.
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