PRINCIPLES OF EXCELLENCE IN INTERNAL AUDIT REPORT WRITING

Content

 The Audit Report Writing Task

• Explain Why Audit Reports are Written
• List the Readers of your Reports
• Describe How Readers Use the Reports
• Limitations Placed on Your Reports
• Importance of Writing Audit Reports

Components of Audit Observations

• Identify Types of Criteria
• Create Condition Summaries
• Determine Levels of Cause and Effect
• Create Recommendations and Action Plans
• Components of Audit Observations

Interview and Interrogations

• Conducting Effective Interrogation
• Structuring the Interrogation and Interview
• Purpose of the Investigation and Interrogations
• Planning and Preparing for the Interrogations
• Roles and Responsibilities of the Investigator

Audit Report Structure

• Construct an Audit Report
• Formats of Writing Audit Report
• Importance if the Various Sessions
• Making your Reports Friendly

Quality of Reporting

• Develop Coherence
• Practice Objectivity
• Ensure Sentence Clarity
• Rephrase Technical Terminology
• Write with Readability and Conciseness
• Develop Reports that are Constructive and Timely

Principles of Writing Audit Report

• Spelling and Grammar Errors
• Proofreading Techniques
• Using Charts, Graphs, Images and Pictures
• Formatting your Documents

FOR WHOM: Internal Auditors, Compliance Officers, Risk Managers, Directors, Heads of Departments, Decision Makers, Business Development Managers, Systems Analysts, Operation Managers, Human Resources Managers and others who perform related functions.

DATE:             14th – 16th May, 2025

                        12th – 14th November, 2025