Internal Audit Report Writing

Training Outline

• The International Standards for the Internal Audit Reports
• The objective of the Internal Audit Reports
• Criteria for a good Internal Audit Report
• Main problems when drawing up the Internal Audit Reports
• 7 important characteristics of the Internal Audit Reports
• Factors of audit findings
• Minimum contents of Internal Audit Reports
• Basic rules of Reporting
• Analysis of Internal Audit Reports
• Auditor’s Recommendations
• Techniques for designing Internal Audit Reports
• Best practices for Internal Audit Reports
• Best ways for presenting audit findings and recommendations
• The process of communicating the draft report to the necessary parties and obtaining their responses, audit report approval process, and distribution of the final report.
• Steps for Internal Auditor’s success
• Case Studies
• Analysis of real Reports of various types
• Analysis of practical examples – real cases

Training Style

The programme is designed to deliver knowledge and enhance participants’ skills via short lectures, case-studies, practical examples, real-life simulations.

Participants will also benefit from customised feedback at the end of the programme and take away the knowledge gained to be transferred to their workplace. Most of the training’s time will be invested in analysing a real-life case study that will help participants understand how to create class reports that add value and motivates readers to take corrective actions.