ZOOM Webinar: Report Writing: Communicating Risk-Based Audit Results

This course is designed to help auditors learn techniques to communicate risks, process deficiencies, and opportunities for improvement to management and other interested parties.

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Learning Objectives:

Participants will learn the elements of an audit observation, including elements most useful in selling observations to management. At the end of this program, attendees will be able to:

• Use the 5 elements of an audit issue to write persuasively
• Communicate risks, process deficiencies, and opportunities for improvement effectively
• Sell observations and recommendations to management

Agenda:

1. Leveraging the message to write persuasive reports and findings

a. It all starts and ends with risk

b. Starting with your hypothesis

c. Determining your message from the business perspective to get them to take action

2. Writing audit findings

a. Using and identifying the five elements for issues

b. Translating work performed to stakeholders effectively

c. Providing enough (but not too much) detail in the audit issue

d. Matching issue importance / risk concern with the right tone, language, and word choices

3. Writing, editing, and revising your audit findings and reports

a. Determining your writing, editing, and revision timeline

b. Using peer reviewers

c. Reducing revisions

NASBA CPE:

Official Registry Statement - The language must be in its entirety and without alteration. IIA Baltimore is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.

Program Knowledge Level: Basic

Maximum CPE: 2 Hours

Recommended Field of Study: Auditing

Prerequisites: None

Advanced Preparation: None

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Complaint Resolution Policy:

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IIA Baltimore Attendee Initiated Cancellations:

If a registered attendee needs to cancel their registration, the cancellation procedures are as follows:

• Cancellation Request Received More Than Five Days Prior to Event: Full refund will be credited back to the credit card.
• Cancellation Request Received Between Two and Five Days Prior to Event: 50% of the registration fee will be refunded via a credit towards a future meeting. The meeting must take place within the same fiscal year (September through May).

• Cancellation Request Received Less Than Two Days Prior to Event and No Shows: No Refund

Meet the Speaker: Raven Catlin, CIA, CPA, CFSA, CRMA

Meet Raven Catlin, CIA, CPA, CFSA, CRMA is a globally recognized speaker on auditing, risk, and controls. She leveraged her 20+ year internal audit career and embraced her passions for internal audit and knowledge sharing to start Raven Global Training in 2006. Her training team provides over 200 in-house, on-site, and virtual presentations and training. Raven is a pioneer in Agile Auditing and the author of Agile Auditing: Fundamentals and Applications (https://bit.ly/AgileAuditBook).

Raven is a VCU graduate. Throughout her career, she held internal audit positions with Philip Morris, Bank of America, Freddie Mac, Protiviti, and Jefferson Wells from staff auditor to interim CAE. Full bio: http://www.ravenglobaltraining.com/ravencatlin.