Audit Report Writing and Communications Strategies

October 18, 2007

DATE:  October 18, 2007

PRESENTER:  Lisa Sonpar, PEF Associates

PLACE:  Rutgers Graduate School of Management,  Avenue, Newark, NJ (see directions below)

TIME:

• 8:30AM — 9:00AM Registration

• 9:00AM — 5:00PM Session

• 12:00PM — 1:00PM Luncheon

ATTIRE: Business Casual

CE CREDITS: 8

COST: $200.00 Members  $300 Non-members (Continental Breakfast and Lunch included) Please indicate any dietary requirements

Registration:  Please complete the Registration form ( www.njisaca.org/form_registration.htm )

Audit Report Writing and Communications Strategies

 Seminar Details

This seminar applies risk-based auditing techniques to develop audit reports that are informative and convincing, add value, and drive action. Each participant receives a workbook containing explanations and examples from actual audit issue sheets and reports, and a laminated audit report guide.

The workshop breaks down report writing into strategic and structural elements covered in five modules. Examples of topics covered follow:

1. issues from facts and test results collected during fieldwork. Sample concepts covered 

2. Reporting issues, not symptoms 

3. Understanding how root cause analysis applies to audit reports  

4. Providing the reader with convincing, value-added risk statements 

5. Determining how much and what type of support to include in audit comments 

6. Developing specific, measurable, achievable, reliable, time-bound recommendations or action plans 

7. Simplifying audit comments by recognizing and reducing audit jargon, confusing words and phrases, and pompous, unnecessary language.

Speaker- Lisa Sonpar

Lisa Sonpar, CISA, received her BA in Accounting and Finance from Marist College (Valedictorian) and her MS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. For over 15 years, she has been involved in technology auditing, consulting, and audit training. She was a systems analyst/consultant with Andersen Consulting (now, Accenture) and conducted internal training workshops. After that, she joined Chase Manhattan Bank as an EDP Audit Officer, where she performed pre-implementation reviews, audits of production application systems, and conversion integration reviews. She also developed and taught several workshops to financial and systems auditors. In 1999, Ms. Sonpar joined PEF Associates as a trainer and consultant.

October Directions -

 Rutgers Graduate School of Management, 190 University Avenue,

Newark, NJ 07102

From New Jersey Turnpike:

• Take exit 15W to I-280 West to Exit 14B (ML King Blvd.) after drawbridge

• At bottom of exit ramp, turn left and continue at stop sign

• At stop sign, turn left on to ML King Blvd.

From Garden State Parkway:

• Take exit 145 to I-280 East, Newark-Harrison

• Once on I-280, stay in the right lane, following signs for Harrison

• Continue to Exit 14, ML King Blvd. Take this exit and make a right at the 1st light onto ML King Blvd.

Once on Campus.........for more details, please see the Interactive Campus Map http://maps.rutgers.edu/maps/default.aspx?campus=2     Select “Management Education Center” behind “Ackerson Hall”

To Parking Deck I:

• Proceed straight on ML King Blvd. to Central Ave. and turn left

• Proceed to 1st traffic light and turn right on to University Avenue

• Parking deck is on your left (parking fee is $10 —arrive early to avoid the lines to enter)

To Management Education Center (MEC):

• MEC is situated between University Avenue and Washington Street,next to Ackerson Hall

•  Walk back down University Avenue to MEC from Parking Deck

• Go to Room 203

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