Auditing to Support a Performance Audit Report: Live & Customized

Do you audit first and worry about the report at the end of the project? Maybe you’ve realized that no amount of editing will fix a performance audit report for an audit that went off the rails. In this course, we will look at the critical components of an audit report and how to create them – as you audit – so that the reporting process is easy – and dare we say it? – fun!

Frequent references to performance audit standards promulgated by the IIA and the GAO will keep us grounded.

Course objectives include:

• Sort out insignificant complaints and focus on significant risks
• Create convincing, implementable and auditable recommendations
• Generate concise and logical findings in an hour or less
• Choose methodologies that support performance audit report conclusions and findings
• Choose the strongest content for your finding
• Decide how much detail to share in the report
• Draft your audit findings and imagine your conclusions at the end of planning
• Format the risk assessment so that it generates critical information for your report
• Quantify findings
• Recognize dangerous tone and language
• Gather the strongest evidence for your most controversial statements
• Establish expectations and guidelines for creating a compelling finding
• Decide when to pursue the root cause
• Focusing the report conclusion on a finite, answerable objective
• Refine the objective and sub-objectives

Program level: Intermediate
Instructional method: Group live instruction
Prerequisites: More than one year of audit experience
Who should attend: Auditors who write or review performance or operational audit reports
Recommended CPE credit: 16+ hours

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