In the past few years, I have published several books and have had the opportunity to work with professional editors. I submitted my manuscripts with a bit of trepidation. I hoped they didn’t red-line my work and call me a hack! If they viciously cut out whole sections of my manuscript, I wouldn’t meet their […]
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Keep the Big Picture in Mind When Reviewing Working Papers
Working paper review has to be one of my least favorite tasks—ever. Often it is very difficult to understand what the auditor was thinking and to retrace their thought process by looking at a set of working papers. It often takes hours just to get a sense of the overall purpose of the working papers. […]
2018 GAO Yellow Book Revisions
The 2018 GAO Yellow Book has been reformatted and tweaked in a variety of areas. But by far, the biggest change to the GAO’s Yellow Book is the addition of the Green Book. The Green Book is all about internal controls. I have lovingly been called a ‘control freak’ a few times by my friends […]
Executive Summaries for Performance Audit Reports
The executive summary of a performance audit report provides readers with a short, complete document highlighting important information included in the detailed performance audit report. We create executive summaries because we assume that our readers don’t have the time to read our full report and we want to make sure they walk away with a few […]
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