Archive for January, 2021

How can you deal with an angry or upset audit client?

By Andy Kovacs and Emre Dereli

If you have an assurance problem.
If no one else can help you … then we can!

Because we’re the A-Team
your assurance agony aunts!

If you have any questions which you’d like us to answer, or topics which you’d like us to discuss, then shoot us an email to:

TheAPlan@zohomail.eu

We’ll do our best to help you out!

We sure hope you enjoyed this week’s audio podcast episode, and we looking forward to catching up again next Friday!

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The A-Plan Podcast: Season 01 Episode 09

By Andy Kovacs and Emre Dereli

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Are YOUR audit reports unintentionally self-obsessed?

By Andy Kovacs and Emre Dereli

If you have an assurance problem.
If no one else can help you … then we can!

Because we’re the A-Team
your assurance agony aunts!

If you have any questions which you’d like us to answer, or topics which you’d like us to discuss, then shoot us an email to:

TheAPlan@zohomail.eu

We’ll do our best to help you out!

We sure hope you enjoyed this week’s audio podcast episode, and we looking forward to catching up again next Friday!

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The A-Plan Podcast: Season 01 Episode 08

By Andy Kovacs and Emre Dereli

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What are the key ingredients for landing your audit report?

By Andy Kovacs and Emre Dereli

If you have an assurance problem.
If no one else can help you … then we can!

Because we’re the A-Team
your assurance agony aunts!

If you have any questions which you’d like us to answer, or topics which you’d like us to discuss, then shoot us an email to:

TheAPlan@zohomail.eu

We’ll do our best to help you out!

We sure hope you enjoyed this week’s audio podcast episode, and we looking forward to catching up again next Friday!

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The A-Plan Podcast: Season 01 Episode 07

By Andy Kovacs and Emre Dereli

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THIS is why NO ONE reads your audit reports!

By Andy Kovacs
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Most internal auditors do NOT like writing reports. It’s one of those “pain-in-the-asset” chores which takes waaaaaaaaaaaay too long!

And then there are the hours, and hours, and HOURS of review conversations with your Audit Manager – pruning it like a blooming bonsai tree!

All in all, report writing is a MASSIVE procrastination magnet!

But do you know what ALL internal auditors HATE more than writing audit reports?

The suspicion that NO ONE even bothers to READ them after all that time and effort!

Why don’t your readers READ your audit reports?

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What should you do when your process owner is aggressive?

By Andy Kovacs and Emre Dereli

If you have an assurance problem.
If no one else can help you … then we can!

Because we’re the A-Team
your assurance agony aunts!

If you have any questions which you’d like us to answer, or topics which you’d like us to discuss, then shoot us an email to:

TheAPlan@zohomail.eu

We’ll do our best to help you out!

We sure hope you enjoyed this week’s audio podcast episode, and we looking forward to catching up again next Friday!

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