Radical Reporting: Writing Better Audit, Risk, Compliance, and Information Security Reports

by Sara I. James

Overview

This small volume provides the tools and techniques needed to improve reports. It does so through addressing crucial concepts all too often overlooked in the familiar rush to perform tasks, complete projects, and meet deadlines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032727530
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	01/31/2025
Series:	Security, Audit and Leadership Series
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sara I. James is an internationally recognized expert in internal audit communications. Through her business, Getting Words to Work(R), she delivers tailored report-writing and other training to internal audit, risk, compliance, and information security teams worldwide (www.saraijames.com). With over 30 years' academic, teaching, writing, publishing, and corporate experience in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East, she brings a wealth of varied yet specialized expertise to clients and audiences. As a member of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (UK and Ireland) Technical Guidance Working Group, Sara has produced many governance, risk, and internal audit advisory pieces. She has also produced articles on clear writing for industry journals and spoken at numerous audit conferences and heads of internal audit forums. In 2022, she was named one of Richard Chambers' Internal Audit Beacon award-winners. Finally, Sara has been fortunate to live, study, and work in different countries, including the US, the UK, France, and the then-Soviet Union, and speaks five languages. These experiences and skills give her invaluable insight into cross-cultural communication and global organizations. She is also regularly asked to contribute scholarly essays, articles, and conference papers on language and literature.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Author

Introduction

Part 1: Words in the mind

Chapter 1: Communication and culture

Chapter 2: Communication within and among teams

Chapter 3: Clarity – the theory

Part 2: Words on the page

Chapter 4: Clarity – the practice
Chapter 5: Planning

Chapter 6: Structure and layout

Part 3: Words into action

Chapter 7: Findings or observations, and recommendations

Chapter 8: Executive summaries

Chapter 9: Reviewing – making the gain outweigh the pain

Conclusion

Resources

Editorial Reviews

‘If I were giving out an award for "book of the year" for internal audit professionals, I would certainly award it to her outstanding manuscript: Radical Reporting: Writing Better Audit, Risk, Compliance and Information Security Reports.’ - Richard Chambers, Former President and CEO, The Institute of Internal Auditors

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