The quality of internal audit reporting is often significantly below par. The number of times I’ve been confronted with reports that were too long, too convoluted, trying to prove to the reader the auditor had done a lot of work … are impossible to count. While the internal auditor ideally writes something that is digestible … Continue reading Sharing courses – Internal audit reporting
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Tone & content audit report = f(audience)
Writing an audit report is serious business. But for auditors, it usually is one of the last things to do before closing the audit job and going to the next one. Not all auditors writing the audit report are necessarily familiar with the audience of their report. And that results in a failure to hit … Continue reading Tone & content audit report = f(audience)
Context reporting
Another link to an absolutely worthwhile article. Michael Lopp offers an excellent suggestion in the following article on context reporting. He suggests: "A context report documents the reason why (and to a lesser extent how) you’re completing these actions and I suspect this information is far more useful to everyone involved." I invite you to … Continue reading Context reporting
My audit reporting workflow on a Mac
This is a post about my current audit reporting workflow. It's based on working with an Apple computer. Why Apple? Simple, the software becomes ubiquitous. In the many years I used Windows, I never felt the software was not there. With Apple, I have this all the time. It saves me hours each week because … Continue reading My audit reporting workflow on a Mac
Exploring The Black Box 