Overview
Clarity-Impact-Speed: Delivering Audit Reports That Matter
Sally Cutler has done it again. In this exciting new handbook, Cutler updates report-design and report-writing techniques, enabling you to construct clear and persuasive audit reports that address current and emerging demands. These strategies work whether your organization is small or large, your internal audit activity is long-standing or newly established, and you are a for-profit, not-for-profit, or government organization.
R1201,28
Item No.: 1085
ISBN: 978-0-89413-709-9
Publisher: The IIA Research Foundation
Publish Date: 2011
Authors: Sally F. Cutler
Media: Paperback
Page count: 144
Produce timely, clear audit reports that wow executives. These design and writing techniques will help your team put together reports that provide impactful information.
Leverage Cutler’s expertise. Take advantage of the realistic examples and practical checklists that bring the concepts alive and will aid your team in producing timely, clear audit reports with impact. Follow Sally as she walks you through key strategies for:
· Evaluating readers and their needs.
· Developing messages.
· Rating audit observations, reports, and the overall status of internal controls.
· Aligning the report design with the organization.
· Structuring and formatting reports for today’s readers.
· Writing clearly and concisely.
· Managing tone.
· Streamlining the writing and review process.
Sally Cutler is an acknowledged expert on audit reporting writing. Her expertise in document design, reporting processes, and writing quality has benefited the host of internal audit, controls, and compliance groups where she has consulted and provided training throughout her career.
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Forward
Preface
Executive Summary
Chapter 1: Introduction to Reporting
Chapter 2: Report Design: Structure
Chapter 3: Report Design: Formatting
Chapter 4: Macro Opinions on Internal Control
Chapter 5: The Reporting Process
Chapter 6: Writing Quality
Chapter 7: Strategies for Reviewing and Editing
Appendix A: Pertinent Sections of the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing
Appendix B: Common Problems with American English Grammar, Punctuation, and Mechanics
Appendix C: Writing References
Exhibits
