Certificate in Effective Report Writing for Internal Auditors

Course Overview

Transform your audit impact with our Effective Report Writing for Internal Auditors Course.

This program recognizes the audit report as the most valuable product, reflecting audit effectiveness visibly. Emphasizing the pivotal role of high-quality reports, that communicate results clearly and concisely.

Elevate your proficiency in crafting impactful reports, meeting the highest standards while contributing to overall audit effectiveness, our course goes beyond documentation to establishing skills that lead to positive actions.

Who Should Attend

This course is suitable for all auditors required to produce and review audit reports.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Distinguish barriers to effective written communication and identify ways to overcome them
  • Identify the target audience and adapt writing accordingly
  • Structure the audit report for greater impact
  • Present audit findings in a clear and concise manner
  • Produce a concise and compelling executive summary
  • Learn ways to review their own and others’ work constructively and efficiently

Course Content

What makes a report effective?

  • Good practice in plain language writing
  • Techniques to improve writing under pressure

Techniques to organize information gathered during fieldwork

  • Traditional report structure
  • Mind-mapping
  • Outlining

Findings (also called issues or observations)

  • Principles of and approaches to writing findings
  • Risks vs. failed controls
  • Root cause analysis
  • Critiquing findings
  • Crafting findings

Executive summaries

  • Introduction to the principles underlying executive summaries
  • Critiquing executive summaries
  • Crafting executive summaries

Preparing the final product

  • Format, layout and templates
  • Reviewing
  • Content vs. mechanics
  • Peer review techniques

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Course Code DU1011 Category
Location: Dubai, UAE
Duration: 5 Days
Language: English
Cost: 15,770 SAR
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