Effective Audit Report Writing - Seminar / Kurs von Frankfurt School of Finance & Management gGmbH

Interactive lecture, discussion, individual and group exercises, case studies. Day One: 

• Know your target audience
• Overview of in-house written documents
• Overview of in-house writing formats and styles
• Writing and presenting written material 
• English language tips: appropriate structure, false friends and inappropriate translations 
• Using appropriate internal audit and in-house terminology
• E-mail etiquette
• Writing exercises
• Common variations in audit report layout
• Paragraph structure
• Using tables and graphs in order to present findingsDay Two: 
  • Audit rating scales and opinions with translations for readers
  • Conciseness and readability
  • Preferred in-house rules of expression, sentence structure and grammar
  • Tone and choice of words 
  • Writing clear, concise executive summaries 
  • Using effective language for power point presentations 
  • Reviewing and revising internal audit reports 
  • Drawing-up an individual written English language action plan
  • Individual feedback on participant written documents

You will discover how to write a clear, coherent audit report in fluent English. The course focuses on a structure for writing up observations that will enable you to maximise audit viewpoint. You will become familiar with strategies that will help you be as concise as possible and improve readability. You will communicate greater value to your readers.