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Expert Skills for Professionals
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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.
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An Easy-to-Use Manual!
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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.
Peek at the Book:
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?
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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.
It's easy to follow, isn't it?
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Every auditor seeking professionalism and career success
needsDeveloping
Persuasive Findings
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Messages From Your Authors
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Bill Stack
President of TopSkills
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A Perfect Book for Performance Auditors
Successful finding development requires knowing the various types and
how your audit objectives determine those types. It also requires
knowing how the finding elements fit and work together to make the finding
lucid. The easiest way to succeed is to recognize these fundamentals — yet the
number of people who struggle without them for months is amazing. Don't
be one of those people. Be a successful auditor and develop persuasive
findings.
What a Bargain!
All this relevant information in a compact 200-page book for your easy
use is only US$20.95 US$18.95 plus nominal shipping and handling. Who would have
thought all this knowledge and guidance could be such a bargain?
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Your Satisfaction Is Guaranteed!
We believe so strongly inDeveloping Persuasive Findings that
we guarantee you will be pleased with it. If this book is not as described on this web site, we will refund your purchase price. If it contains any physical defects, we will replace it at our cost. Nothing could be safer than this! Read details of our standard product guarantee here.
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Have Questions? We're glad to help.
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WHAT THEY SAY
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"Very useful concepts."
— Mark Fisher, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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"A unique application of finding elements."
— Ricardo Gonzales, San Juan, Puerto
Rico
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"Well laid out explanations of elements."
— David Osborne, Sydney, Australia
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"Thought provoking and inspiring. There are some many more audit types than we thought possible."
— Ellen Hughes, New York, New York, USA
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"Your list of common errors is right on."
— Bill Roberts, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
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"The explanation of financial-related audits is very helpful."
— Leon Sterling,
Dallas, Texas, USA
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