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Sara I. James

...Getting words to work^®

• Radical Reporting: Writing Better Audit, Risk, Compliance, and Information Security Reports
  (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2022)

Recent articles

• ‘An Active Voice in Internal Audit Reports Inspires Action’ (co-authored with Richard Chambers)
• ‘Reporting Before, During and After Covid: Build better reporting on better relationships’ New Perspectives, 42/5, pp. 6-9
• ‘One-page wonders’ (Audit & Risk magazine) - page 62
• ‘Breaking Down the Audit Report’
  (available to IIA members only)
• ‘Is the internal audit report dead...or merely resting?’
• ‘Effective communications - Conversations with Non-Executive Directors’
• ‘Effective communications - Accountability’
• ‘Effective communications - the report and the reporting process’
• ‘Using digitised information – more important (and risky) than ever’
• ‘Independence and objectivity’
• ‘IA at a distance: conducting audit engagements remotely’
• ‘Chief Audit Executive and the Audit Committee: no surprises in surprising circumstances’
• ‘Communications with stakeholders’
• ‘IR35: get ahead for 2021’
• ‘Presenting information to the board for strategic decisions’ (International Standards guidance)
  (available to IIA members only)
• ‘Auditing non-financial risk in cultural and heritage areas’
  (available to IIA members only)
• ‘IR35: inclusion of the private sector’(co-author)
  (available to IIA members only)
• ‘Top tips: making culture part of your audit DNA’
  (available to IIA members only)
• ‘GDPR as BAU: Are your processes in place?’
  (available to IIA members only)
• ‘GDPR: What? When? Why?’
  (available to IIA members only)
• ‘Top tips for auditors: Writing about risk’
  (available to IIA members only)
• ‘Writing the Right Report’ ACCA e-bulletin
• ‘Are your words working?’ Business Comment (page 12)
• ‘Language and Leadership’ the Performance Collective website