Angela J. Maniak
The leading expert in helping auditors and accountants write clear and convincing audit reports.
Slash Your Writing Costs to the Bare Bones
A Workshop Offered by Angela J. Maniak
What You Gain from the Workshop
This unique and results-oriented workshop enables your audit group to:
- Improve report timeliness and streamline the entire reporting process.
- Stop revising reports and start empowering auditors to write effectively.
- Cut the cost of audit report writing.
- Deliver timely audit results to your clients.
As a result of this workshop, you learn how to:
- Issue reports promptly--even before you leave the field.
- Facilitate timely responses and action plans from auditee clients.
- Identify and eliminate any bottlenecks in your reporting practices.
- Reduce the amount of editing you do.
- Measure the cost of delayed reports and achieve higher payback.
Who Should Participate in the Workshop
- Anyone who reviews, approves, or edits draft findings or audit reports
- Anyone who wants to reduce the time and cost of report-writing.
What You Can Expect
This one-day program offers plenty of self-assessment exercises,
immediate hands-on application, discussion of innovative techniques,
and practical action-planning. You receive a comprehensive workbook
containing proven tools you can use on the job.
You will submit and analyze data on your group's report timeliness and
writing productivity so that you can gain immediate results.
Available Workshop Modules
Measuring the Cost of the Reporting Cycle
- Calculating cost and payback
- Self-assessment exercises
- Identifying measurable payback from the reporting process
Analyzing Your Process
- Self-assessment: Report timeliness and productivity
- What's the cost and value of your reports?
- Identifying bottlenecks in the process
- Determining responsibility for report timeliness
Cutting Report Cycle Time
- Establishing a measurable standard
- Measuring timeliness real-time
- Implementing practices to ensure timely reporting
- Establishing accountability for timeliness
Improving Efficiency: How to Reduce the Time It Takes to Write and Review Reports
- Identifying benchmarks for writing and review efficiency
- Implementing guidelines for faster writing and review
- Measuring the time it takes to write and review reports
- Learning how to write it once and review it once
Designing a Process for Zero-Day Cycle Time
- Exercise: How to eliminate bottlenecks or rework
- Exercise: Assigning review responsibilities
- Brainstorming: Achieving new standards for timeliness and productivity
Action Planning
- Setting the standards
- Maintaining the standards
- Reporting on performance
- Calculating payback
For further information:
Angela J. Maniak
191 Prescott Hill Road
Northport, Maine 04849
207-338-0108
angela@amaniak.com
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