Critical Thinking in Report Writing and Recommendations

Field: Auditing | Delivery Method: Self Study | CPE Hours: 1.0

One of the biggest challenges internal audit has is not looking at the root cause analysis and thinking critically when making recommendations and writing reports. In this Audit Discussion I speak with Sara I. James about how auditors can think more critically and things to consider like: is my argument based on the facts, am I using primary or secondary evidence, what do I really know, am I curious or am I allowing biases and assumptions to creep into my work? We delve into what has caused critical thinking skills to be the biggest skills gap in internal audit and what you can do to improve your critical thinking skills.


Field: Auditing
Delivery Method: Self Study
CPE Hours: 1.0
Format: Video


Sara I. James, PhD, CIA is the author of Radical Reporting: Writing Better Audit, Risk, Compliance, and Information Security Reports, a Trainer, Internal auditor, Writer, Editor, Translator, and Linguist with Getting Words to Work®

Visit her website: http://www.saraijames.com and connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saraijames/


Your Instructor


Jason Mefford
Jason Mefford

Jason Mefford is a rock star in internal audit, risk management and compliance. He typically works with Chief Audit Executives (CAE), Audit Committee (AC) members, and professionals in audit, risk and compliance with the technical and soft-skills needed to navigate the land mines of organizations. He takes complicated, confusing & hard things, makes them practical, proactive & simple to improve learning and transformation.


He's been a Chief Audit Executive, Chief Risk Officer, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Board Member, and has trained and consulted organizations all over the world. He is a thought leader in all things governance, risk and compliance (GRC) and internal audit, and is the recipient of multiple awards including:


  • Rising Star in Corporate Governance from Yale University
  • Rising Star in Corporate Governance Award (Finalist) from Corporate Secretary Magazine
  • Thought Leader of the Year (Finalist) from The National Association of Experts, Writers & Speakers
  • Fellow from the Open Compliance & Ethics Group (OCEG) Think Tank


You can learn more about him at: https://www.jasonmefford.com and join him in the Audit Leader Forum™ at: https://bit.ly/AuditLeader


Course Curriculum


  Critical Thinking in Report Writing and Recommendations
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