The Art of the Audit Finding: Live & Customized

Description

Was your latest audit finding powerful? And did your team enjoy writing it? Findings can be fun to write and read. Yes, I said fun!

By following a few key guidelines on content and organization, you can create an audit report masterpiece your team can be proud to stand behind.

And on top of that, a logically organized audit finding sprinkled with interesting facts and including clear, feasible recommendations can be one of an auditor’s best tools for eliciting change.

This course is centered on the five elements of a finding required by the Yellow Book and the Single Audit, and suggested by the IIA.

Course objectives include:

• Generate concise and logical findings in an hour or less
• Choose the strongest content for your finding
• Choose whether to pursue the root cause
• Create fact-based and control-based tests to support the five elements
• Create auditable and feasible audit finding recommendations
• Choose how much detail to share in the report
• Quantify findings to convey impact
• Edit findings and provide meaningful feedback

Who should attend: Auditors who write or review audit findings
Program level: Basic
Prerequisites: No prerequisites or advance preparation required
Delivery method: Group live
Recommended CPE credit: 8+ hours

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