Audit Report Writing for New Auditors

17th November, 2026 | 13:30 - 17:00 CET
18th November, 2026 | 13:30 - 17:00 CET

Fundamentals first – before bad habits and AI shortcuts set in.

An audit report is internal audit’s business card – for many stakeholders, it’s the only contact with audit they will ever have. Yet most new auditors learn testing first, documentation second, and writing on the job – if at all.

This workshop builds the foundation in the right order: what audit reports are for, who actually reads them, and what those readers need – because stakeholders drive what auditors write. From there, it moves to the audit finding, the building block of every report, and what makes a finding effective.

AI will happily draft a finding for anyone. But a writer who doesn’t yet know what a good finding looks like cannot judge what AI hands them. This workshop builds that judgment – brains first, then AI.

This is a working workshop: activities build the skill of constructing effective findings step by step, with group and trainer feedback – participants leave having written real findings, not just heard about them.

What changes:

–     New auditors understand the why before the how – reports exist to change something, not to document effort.

–     Stakeholder thinking starts on day one – who reads audit reports, and what each reader needs from them.

–     Findings stop being intimidating – writers know the pieces, how they fit, and where to start.

–     First drafts become usable drafts – reviewers inherit workable material instead of blank-page struggles.

–     Confidence arrives early – before the fear of the empty page sets in.

For: New internal auditors – and anyone writing their first audit reports, whatever path brought them to audit.

Next step: Deep Dive: Findings, when they’re ready to go deeper.

Working material: Everything is provided – no prior audits, findings, or reports needed. Participants learn what a good finding looks like from the start – not from past reports sitting in the archive.

Trainer:
Tracie Marquardt is a 2024 and 2025 Beacon Award recipient and sought-after Audit Results Strategist. She helps Chief Audit Executives and their teams transform audit results through communication, leadership, and productivity.

As an audit reporting expert, Tracie addresses audit's core challenge: deriving and communicating results that add value to stakeholders. She guides teams in redesigning outdated audit report templates and builds their capability to deliver exceptional reporting at the intersection of human judgment and AI-driven communication.

Tracie has trained 13,000+ international internal auditors across industries. She is a keynote speaker at audit conferences worldwide.

She launched Inspiring Women in Audit in 2024, the industry podcast amplifying women's voices in internal audit around the globe. The podcast has a supporting LinkedIn community of over 600 internal audit professionals.