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Lecturer: Graham Westwood
This course is offered either as an in-house course or as a scheduled public course, please contact us at info@faculty-one.com if this is of interest to you. The programme can be tailored as required.
Modern internal auditors are now charged with “adding value” to the organisation. It is no longer helpful to do work, report findings and offer recommendations. It is now considered essential to effect change.
This is a difficult aim to achieve, when one considers the independence of internal audit, and realises that auditors are not in a position to take responsibility for undertaking any change. This should always be the duty of line management.
Achieving change when one does not have direct authority is fraught with many behavioural factors which the auditor has to take account of, if success is to be achieved.
This course helps internal auditors to address improvements to the writing process and understand the vital inter-personal “soft” skills which can lead to line management’s implementation of necessary changes arising from an audit.
Programme
Reporting traditions
Implementation problems
The need for and value of reports
Reporting style
Report contents and structures
Word choices and persuasion factors
Report “findings sheets”
Follow -up procedures and analysis of report failures
The “agreed action “principle and negotiation
One day course
09.30 – 17.00
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