Creating Wonderful Workpapers
Course Overview
Auditors perform projects to evaluate an organization’s operations.
As with any evaluation, there has to be sufficient documentation to support the conclusions. For auditors,the evaluation(s) and feedback are documented in workpapers.
Wonderful Workpapers allow auditors to complete projects swiftly and efficiently. Bad workpapers leave you bogged down in audits that are not focused on the right things, take too
long to complete, and are inconsistent with expectations.
- In this session, we will discuss how to create wonderful workpapers.
- First, I’ll tell you my personal workpaper revelation.
- Next, we’ll explore the purpose of workpapers and the types of workpapers.
- Then, we’ll discuss key workpaper characteristics and essential elements.
- Finally, we’ll end by discussing workpaper organization, relevancy, accuracy, and completeness.
Course Benefits
After taking this workpaper training course, auditors will be able to
- Properly document audit work performed
- Create accurate audit paper trails
- Reduce review notes from supervisors
Learning Objectives
After attending this audit training, auditors will be able to:
- Discover the power of proper workpapers
- Identify the purpose of workpapers
- Discover the types of workpapers
- Identify the key characteristics of workpapers
- Identify the essential elements all workpapers should possess
- Build organized workpaper packages
- Explore what makes workpapers relevant, accurate and complete
Course Categories
Auditing
Course Level
Basic, Intermediate
Ideal Audience Auditor - Manager, Auditor - Senior, Auditor - Staff
Delivery Methods In Person, Virtual
Fields of Study Auditing
Course durations (hours)
4, 8