Writing Audit Reports by Objectives (Republic of the Marshall Islands)

Accepted practice in performance auditing is to begin an audit with objectives based on user needs and to develop a report that answers those objectives. This course is grounded on the concept that using audit objectives as the logical, integrated basis from planning through reporting helps you organize your message and write reports that succinctly communicate the audit results. In practice exercises, write audit objectives that, when answered, will tell audit results as a story. In a case exercise, use a report conference to reach an agreement on the message before writing; organize the report message to answer the audit objective and write a finding synopsis.

What You Will Learn

After successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Design a report to solve the problem of multiple audiences
• Explain the effect objectives have on findings and message formulation
• Write objectives for process-oriented and results-oriented audits that identify performance aspects and finding elements to be developed and form an outline for the report
• Organize a finding that answers the audit objectives using different outline methods and advance organizers such as captions and topic sentences

Apply general guidelines for selecting appropriate visual aids

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for the Republic of the Marshall Islands’ Office of the Auditor-General. Audit professionals working in the RMI Office of the Inspector General.

Health & Safety Protocols

For all on-site training in the insular areas, the Graduate School USA's Pacific and Virgin Islands Training Initiatives (PITI-VITI) works closely with local training hosts to ensure that participants, instructors, and training support staff enjoy a safe learning experience. Please note the following:

• Full details of PITI-VITI's health and safety guidelines are available here.
• Local health and safety guidelines for the government of Marshall Islands, which will be hosting this training, is available at http://rmihealth.org/.
• Please contact PITI-VITI Admin at [email protected] with any questions or concerns.

Tuition Fees

With funding support from the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs, courses are available free of charge for government accountability professionals within the insular areas. The course fee is waived and there is no cost to register and attend, Professionals who do not meet the above criteria, please contact [email protected].