Professional Development Workshop on 5 & 6 January, 2024 ( 13 CPE )

The ISACA China Hong Kong Chapter would like to invite you to this one-and-a-half day-Workshop:

Advanced Written Communication Workshop for Internal Auditors Information Design: Information StructureTM in Audit and Risk Assessment Reports

Conducted by The Communication Group Ltd.

The Workshop in December, 2022 was full. This Workshop will be repeated on the following dates in 2024:

Dates
5 January Friday, 2024
6 January Saturday, 2024

Time

9:00 am – 6:00 pm

9:00 am – 1:00 pm

Venue:

Lecture Hall, 4/F Duke of Windsor Building

15 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong

Non-Members HK$3,450

Cost: ISACA Members HK$3,150

For reservation, please email the Reply Slip on the next page to tcgroup@netvigator.com
Early Bird Registration: You will get a discount of 10% for registering on or before 23 December, 2023 Introduction:

We often hear from partners or directors of companies that auditors spend too much time writing reports and that the Head of Audit and senior managers spend too much time editing and polishing their team’s reports. Therefore, the overall aim of the Workshop is to provide auditors and managers with a theoretical framework and a set of practical guidelines to:

• cut down the amount of time auditors have to spend on reports

• reduce the amount of time planning, organising, drafting and discussing reports and

• reduce the amount of time in interviews and meetings

  Yet still produce reports that are well received by all levels of readers!! Objectives:

• Learn how to save time and money by structuring information in audit and risk assessment reports in a more “linguistically scientific” way

• Learn how to design and structure information so that your reports are clear and logical, and easy for the reader to understand after reading them for the first time

• Learn how to Plan, Organise, Draft, Revise, and Edit your own reports by following this Five Step Writing Process

• And as a result, develop a set of communication skills that will help you write more effective reports that get results and action, and get the immediate approval of your boss

  (The guidelines provided in the Workshop can be applied to reports written either in English or Chinese or in any other languages)

  Workshop Methodology: Input integrated with analysis of sample audit and risk assessment reports
  The Advanced Written Communication Workshops for Internal Auditors are designed and developed jointly by Madeleine Behan (M.A.) and Anthony Behan (M.A.). They are Communication Consultants and Discourse Analysts specialising in Information Design: Information Structure. Anthony and Madeleine Behan advise companies on the design and structure of their advanced spoken and written business communication, in particular, company financial and audit as well as risk assessment reports. Anthony Behan is the Founder and Managing Director of The Communication Group. He has an MA in Applied Linguistics specialising in Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics.

  After conducting Seminars/Workshops for ISACA, IIA and HKICPA, John Swire and Sons (Hong Kong & Beijing), HSBC Group Audit (Asia Pacific Region), Hang Seng Bank, ICBC (Asia), MTR, Hospital Authority, DBS Bank (Hong Kong and Indonesia), ICBC (Asia), PwC, Grant Thornton (Hong Kong and PRC), the Link Management Ltd., the Sino Group and Wal-mart, China among others, they would like to share their views on Information Design and Information StructureTM in audit and risk assessment reports with the internal audit community. Their specialized areas include a research study into the application of Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics in both spoken and written business reports.

  CPE Hours - 13 Certification: Participants will be awarded a Certificate of Achievement on completion of the Workshop