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

Most people dread writing reports; they also dread reading reports. What they don’t realize is that the techniques that make writing more readable make it more powerful. This is especially relevant for professionals in areas such as audit, risk, compliance, and information security.

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.

These concepts – the role of culture in communication; the link between logic and language; the importance of organizing thoughts before writing; and how to achieve clarity – may seem academic or theoretical. They’re not. Unless writers understand their own thoughts, actions, and objectives, they cannot hope to communicate them at all – let alone clearly.

This second edition develops these points with additional material on critical thinking, as well as the use of AI in reporting.

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

Most people dread writing reports; they also dread reading reports. What they don’t realize is that the techniques that make writing more readable make it more powerful. This is especially relevant for professionals in areas such as audit, risk, compliance, and information security.

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.

These concepts – the role of culture in communication; the link between logic and language; the importance of organizing thoughts before writing; and how to achieve clarity – may seem academic or theoretical. They’re not. Unless writers understand their own thoughts, actions, and objectives, they cannot hope to communicate them at all – let alone clearly.

This second edition develops these points with additional material on critical thinking, as well as the use of AI in reporting.

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

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

by Sara I. James
Radical Reporting: Writing Better Audit, Risk, Compliance, and Information Security Reports
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Radical Reporting: Writing Better Audit, Risk, Compliance, and Information Security Reports

by Sara I. James

Overview

Most people dread writing reports; they also dread reading reports. What they don’t realize is that the techniques that make writing more readable make it more powerful. This is especially relevant for professionals in areas such as audit, risk, compliance, and information security.

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.

These concepts – the role of culture in communication; the link between logic and language; the importance of organizing thoughts before writing; and how to achieve clarity – may seem academic or theoretical. They’re not. Unless writers understand their own thoughts, actions, and objectives, they cannot hope to communicate them at all – let alone clearly.

This second edition develops these points with additional material on critical thinking, as well as the use of AI in reporting.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781040254134
Publisher: CRC Press
Publication date: 01/31/2025
Series: ISSN
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 272

About the Author

Sara I. James is an internationally recognized expert in internal audit communications. Through her business, Getting Words to WorkTM, 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. Index.

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