it was actually larry sawyer, the father of modern interlocking said, few sources of friction within the audit department exceed that caused by the process of report writing but i think all of us in the probably bear a few scars from audit reports we try to get out and somebody disagreed with the wording. look, getting consensus with the audit department sometimes the stuff in getting agreement with the agency officials on the findings and recommendations. i've talked about different techniques that can be deployed, the idea of sharing the results so you don't dump all of the odd results on management at the end of a process, of eliminating or reducing the levels of review. large audit organization can often have seven levels of review. amor levels of review you have on a draft report, the longer it will take to get it out. using an editor early in the process. we used to do report them to get them all the way up through the editing process and all of the auditors would agree and we turned over to an editor and they would take it all apart and start all over again. what we employed o