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The Audit Report: Yellow Book Style

$90.00

Description

The Audit Report: Yellow Book Style includes a self-study e-book delivered to you immediately upon purchase for 7.5 hours of CPE credit.

Do you seem to get caught in an endless cycle of review and revision on your audit report? In this course, we will diagnose and help resolve the root cause of your problems.

The Yellow Book requires the use of the elements of a finding—and if you use them correctly, your report gets stronger and your process gets shorter, much shorter!

The author, Leita Hart-Fanta, has reviewed hundreds of findings and shares her insights on how to (and how not to!) coach the team to better writing behaviors. We cover IIA, AICPA, and Yellow Book reporting standards as well as tell you how to meet the standards.

Course objectives include:

  • Identify what is causing your team’s problems with report writing
  • Define the possible contents of an audit report
  • Choose reporting expectations including audience, tone, and length that are appropriate for your audit team
  • Contrast the communication philosophies of the audit standard-setting bodies
  • Compare AICPA financial audit reporting standards to GAGAS standards
  • Identify the triggers of an audit finding
  • Differentiate among the elements of a finding
  • Differentiate among the contents of a performance audit report including audit objective, scope and methodology, and audit results
  • Identify the minimum reporting standards per the IIA
  • Order the steps of the writing process
  • Order the steps of planning an audit report
  • Identify the rules that allow for fast drafts
  • Identify the levels of editing and choose attractive formats
  • Judge how to talk to staff about their writing

Program level: Intermediate
NASBA Category of Study: Auditing (Governmental)
Prerequisites: One or more years of audit experience
Advance preparation: None
Who should attend: Auditors
Instructional method: Self-study text with online qualified assessment. QAS SS
CPE Credit Hours: 7.5
Author: Leita Hart-Fanta, CPA

This course is also included in the Audit Reporting Bundle.

This course does qualify for the 24 hour Yellow Book CPE requirement.

READ INSIDE THE BOOK: https://yellowbook-cpe.com/whas-up-with-your-teams-writing.html

Questions? You can find our FAQ here.

What People Say About This Course

“It gave practical applications to the standards.  Most courses just give bullets of what I have already read in the standards without examples or how to apply the rules.”
– CPA in public practice

“Loved the illustrations and well written. Hard to believe I had trouble putting it down to take care of other work-related responsibilities.”
– Internal Auditor

“The summaries of the various auditing standards and the clarity of what to include in the report body. Overall, this is one of the best auditing related courses that I have taken. That is saying a lot because writing has always been my least favorite subject, but it is so essential to my work.”
– County Auditor

“I am always trying to improve my communication and have been told that my tone can be a little too cutting, so this provided many good examples on word choice.“
– CPA in public practice

“The Finding Form that was included will likely provide the greatest benefit to my report writing. It will allow more concise reports.”
– State Internal Auditor

“Very well written. It had a fun tone to it, not just typical spitting out facts in a boring manner.” 
– CPA in public practice

“The chapters on Editing and How to Talk to Folks about Their Writing were great! I am a writer-editor working with auditors. I do my best to be respectful of the auditors and their varying writing styles, and I don’t ever try to change someone’s writing to better match what I prefer. If a sentence is grammatically correct and understandable, I leave it as is! I’ll keep these chapter pages as reminders to myself – I want to be an editor auditors like to work with, rather than someone they want to avoid.” 
– Federal Inspector General

“Excellent review and comparison and contrasts of the various professional audit standards. Also, the suggestions about mind mapping and brainstorming, and the suggestions for the sequences to follow in report preparation.” 
– Public Transportation Auditor

“I liked how well-organized and relevant the course material is.” 
– State Auditor