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Developing Persuasive Findings

How to analyze, organize, assemble and write performance-audit findings that bring results


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  • Compliance findings
  • Economy and efficiency findings
  • Effectiveness findings
  • Internal-control findings
  • Financial-related findings
  • Management-advisory findings
  • Apparent-fraud findings
  • Abuse findings
  • Followup findings
  • Finding elements
  • Common pitfalls of audit findings
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Develop Persuasive Findings Quickly and Easily

Convert this challenging aspect of performance auditing into a quick and easy task with our clear and concise method. Our 15 years experience with training auditors reveal that many struggles result from confusion over the types of findings they are trying to develop — often with diligent auditors literally wasting months of valuable time and resources trying to develop their evidence into the wrong type of finding!YourDeveloping Persuasive Findings will help youachieve success easily andavoid common pitfalls.

Break Free of That Compliance-Audit Rut

Did you know that most audit reports issued by government and internal auditors dwell on noncompliance, but that auditors often doseven other types of audits? YourDeveloping Persuasive Findings will help expand your auditing horizons and provide more useful services to your auditees and third parties.

Develop Real Internal-Control Findings

Too many performance audit findings are missing the point about internal controls, because to many auditors misread the auditing standards regarding them. YourDeveloping Persuasive Findings will help youclearly understand the various roles that internal controls play in your findings.

Break Free of ThatCause Rut, Too

If you've done many performance audits, you've probably gotten stuck on the cause element. That's because it's the most dynamic of the elements, and auditors of often seeing the wrong things while looking right at them! YourDeveloping Persuasive Findings will helpyou control this vexing aspect of performance auditing.

Handle Fraud and Abuse Findings Prudently

Fraud and abuse are mine fields that can cost auditors dearly if they aren't careful. YourDeveloping Persuasive Findings will help you traverse thisnecessary yet risky aspect of auditing so you won't step in the wrong places.

Avoid Common Finding Faults

After 17 years of training auditors all over the United States, we've seen just about every way a solid audit can become an unconvincing finding. One group we know actually had to retract an officially issued report and redo the audit because their findings were so flawed! Your Developing Persuasive Findings will show you these common faults and help youstay clear of them.

Did you know that finding development is the one thing that auditors and managersagree and disagreeon simultaneously? That's right. They all agree that they disagree about findings more than anything else! Overcome that common auditing paradox withDeveloping Persuasive Findings.



An Easy-to-Use Manual!


Find Needed Information Quickly and Easily

YourDeveloping Persuasive Findings is organized and laid out for your easiest use. Information is divided into relevant chapters, and chapters are organized into easy-to-follow sections. Headings and captions help you find information quickly. It's fully indexed for quick reference.

Clearly Written and Easy to Use

YourDeveloping Persuasive Findings is written by professional auditors, trainers and writers, then published by an experienced training enterprise to help you learn by reading and doing. Philosophies and methods used by successful auditors are explained in straight-forward, easy-to-follow English. Visual aids help you grasp the principles, and easy-to-follow exercises help you apply the concepts and methods for experience and learning.

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Table of Contents

Preface: What Is This Book About?
Chapter 1: What Are Findings?
Chapter 2: What Types of Findings do we Write?
Chapter 3: What Is a Compliance Finding?
Chapter 4: What Is an Economy and Efficiency Finding?
Chapter 5: What Is a Program-Effectiveness Finding?
Chapter 6: What Is an Internal-Control Finding?
Chapter 7: What Is a Financial-Related Finding?
Chapter 8: What Is a Management-Advisory Finding?
Chapter 9: What Is a Followup Finding?
Chapter 10: What Is an Apparent-Fraud Finding?
Chapter 11: What Is an Abuse Finding?
Appendix A: Finding-Development Exercises
Appendix B: Common Finding Pitfalls
Appendix C: Finding-Development References
Index

It covers plenty in 200 pages, doesn't it?
Sample Text

Even though every audit report must answer the questions posed directly or indirectly by the audit objectives, numerous audit report fail this test. The more common ways this happens are as follows: (1) The auditors literally forgot what their objectives were over the months of their auditing. (2) Auditors and managers mistakenly bring into the audit seemingly related areas, when they really should have been handled as issues needing further study. (3) Auditors drift into technical areas they are not qualified to audit. (4) Auditors feel compelled to investigate fraud as though they were trained in law-enforcement techniques. All these faults can lead to serious finding weaknesses.

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WHAT THEY SAY

"Very useful concepts."
— Mark Fisher, Chicago, Illinois, USA

"A unique application of finding elements."
— Ricardo Gonzales, San Juan, Puerto Rico

"Well laid out explanations of elements."
— David Osborne, Sydney, Australia

"Thought provoking and inspiring. There are some many more audit types than we thought possible."
— Ellen Hughes, New York, New York, USA

"Your list of common errors is right on."
— Bill Roberts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

"The explanation of financial-related audits is very helpful."
— Leon Sterling, Dallas, Texas, USA



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