Tips for Writing Better Audit Reports By Lisa R. Young, CISA, CISM Effectively communicating audit results requires clear and unambiguous language, evidentiary-based support, and knowledge of the audience that will receive the report. An audit report is designed to provide information, persuade the readers to take action, and convince management to change or improve something. How we say things makes a difference. A well-written audit report is a call to action, whereas a poorly written report can result in erroneous action or no action …
So You Want to Be an IT Auditor? Practitioners need a combination of technical and people skills to forge a career in auditing technology. Cliff Donathan A recent news headline asked, “Is Knight’s $440 million glitch the costliest computer bug ever?” According to the CNN Money article , in less than one hour, a defect in Knight Capital Group’s software caused its computers to execute a series of orders that were supposed to be spread over several days. “Computers do what they’re told,” says Lawrence Pingree, an analyst at Gartner. “…
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