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Writing Audit Reports by Objectives

Course Category Audit

February 13 - 14, 2025

3:00 a.m.

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On-Site

This course will be delivered on-site in American Samoa.

Registration is open to insular government professionals.

This course is desgined for the American Samoa's Territorial Audit Office

Course Description

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 agreement on the message before writing; organize the report message to answer the audit objectives, and; write a finding synopsis.

What You Will Learn

Learning Outcomes:

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 methods and advance organizers such as captions and topic sentences
Apply general guidelines for selecting appropriate visual aids

Who Should Attend

Auditors who want to enhance their report-writing skills.

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].

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February 13 - 14, 2025

3:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

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CPEs - 16 Credit Hours

On-Site, American Samoa

TBD, American Samoa

Instructor

Drummond Kahn

Portland, OR

Drummond Kahn serves on the faculty of the Graduate School USA, training auditors and financial managers in the U.S. and overseas. Since 1990, Mr. Kahn served in federal, state, and local government auditing positions.

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