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What Makes a Good Auditor

What Makes a Good Auditor. Prepared and Presented by Frank Crawford, CPA Crawford & Associates, P.C. www.crawfordcpas.com frank@crawfordcpas.com. What Makes a Good Auditor?. This session will look at the attributes that GOOD auditors possess

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What Makes a Good Auditor

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  1. What Makes a Good Auditor Prepared and Presented by Frank Crawford, CPA Crawford & Associates, P.C. www.crawfordcpas.com frank@crawfordcpas.com

  2. What Makes a Good Auditor? • This session will look at the attributes that GOOD auditors possess • We will also look at the attributes of EXPERT auditors • The group will rank the attributes in order of what they think will is important • We will compare your rankings to a study conducted in the U.S. • We will develop a “catch phrase” to use from this point forward to identify the attributes necessary in all GOOD and EXPERT auditors

  3. Good Auditor Attributes(in no particular order) • Creative Inquisitive • Thinker Common sense • Organized Intelligent • Judgment Fair • Informal Informal • Knowledge Experience • Confidence Flexible • Logical Decisive • Good listener Looks at alternatives • Objective Analytical • Responsible Perceptive

  4. Good Auditor Attributes(Assign a number from 1-22, in order of what you think is the most important attribute to the least important attribute for a good auditor ) • Creative Inquisitive • Thinker Common sense • Organized Intelligent • Judgment Fair • Informal Informal • Knowledge Experience • Confidence Flexible • Logical Decisive • Good listener Looks at alternatives • Objective Analytical • Responsible Perceptive

  5. Good Auditor Attributes (your order)

  6. Discussion of results

  7. Expert Auditor Attributes (in no particular order) • Creativity Methodical • Know’s what is relevant Problem simplification • Physical appearance Experience • Inquisitive Energetic • Assumes responsibility Makes exceptions • Communicate expertise Decisiveness • Perfectionist Problem selection • Warm and friendly Stress tolerance • Adaptability Self confident • Current knowledge Perceptive

  8. Expert Auditor Attributes (Assign a number from 1-20, in order of what you think is the most important attribute to the least important attribute for an excellent auditor ) • Creativity Methodical • Know’s what is relevant Problem simplification • Physical appearance Experience • Inquisitive Energetic • Assumes responsibility Makes exceptions • Communicate expertise Decisiveness • Perfectionist Problem selection • Warm and friendly Stress tolerance • Adaptability Self confident • Current knowledge Perceptive

  9. Expert Auditor Attributes (your order)

  10. Discussion of results

  11. Create a catch phrase… • Using some combination of the first letters of the first word of each set of attributes, create a catch phrase that we can use to identify a good auditor and an expert auditor • Something like “Smart and Sassy”, or Sharp and Good Looking”

  12. The letters to use • Good auditor letters • O, L, J, I, I, G, F, F, P, L, C, T, A, C, C, R, O, D, C, I, E, K • Expert auditor letters • P, P, W, M, P, E, M, P, I, C, C, S, S, D, E, P, A, C, A, K

  13. Let’s pick the best catch phrases… • Good auditor • Expert auditor

  14. Questions

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