{"id":"risk-finding-neutral-rewrite","audience":"compliance","category":"legal-compliance","track":"legal","technique":"tone","level":"intermediate","title":"Rewrite a blaming draft finding in neutral audit language","free":false,"task":"A junior auditor drafted a finding that blames the AP team. Write a prompt that rewrites it as four plain-text lines starting Condition:, Criteria:, Cause:, Effect: with a neutral tone: no blame words such as careless, ignored or wrongly, and no claim of loss. Use the workpaper facts. Under 100 words. The last line must read exactly: Management response: pending","materialLabel":"Your material (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"DRAFT FINDING\n\"The careless AP team ignored the three-way match rule and wrongly paid 9 invoices, costing us $48k.\"\n\nWORKPAPER FACTS\n- Procedure: invoices are paid only after a three-way match (purchase order, receiving record, invoice).\n- Sample of 40 invoices: 9 were paid with no receiving record at the time of payment. Their total value is $48,200.\n- For 3 of the 9, the receiving record was logged after payment.\n- No duplicate payments and no loss have been identified. Goods for the other 6 have not been confirmed yet.\n- The cause has not been discussed with the AP supervisor.","rules":[{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxWords","max":100}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Neutral tone","patterns":["neutral","no blame","careless"]},{"label":"No loss","patterns":["no loss","do not say","loss"]},{"label":"Four labels","patterns":["condition:","criteria:"]},{"label":"Exact last line","patterns":["management response: pending","last line"]},{"label":"Plain text","patterns":["plain","no markdown"]}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Keeping the blame","why":"AI keeps 'careless' or 'wrongly' from the draft.","fix":"Say: \"Neutral tone; avoid blame words such as careless, ignored, wrongly.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Dropping the 3 late receipts","why":"AI merges all nine invoices as the same.","fix":"Say: \"Note that 3 of the 9 receiving records were logged after payment.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Claiming a loss","why":"AI keeps the $48k as a cost.","fix":"Say: \"No loss identified; do not say there was a loss.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Getting markdown back","why":"AI adds bold, headings and bullets by default, which show up as stray symbols when pasted.","fix":"Say \"plain text, no bold, no headings, no asterisks\".","checks":["plainText"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting and usually runs long, so a vague \"keep it short\" lands over the limit.","fix":"Cap each part instead of the total, for example \"each line under 15 words\".","checks":["maxWords"]}],"hint":"Name the banned words, keep the loss out and give the exact last line.","mission":"Rewrite the draft finding without blame or invented loss.","musts":["No blame words","No loss claimed","Exact last line"],"rubricLabels":["There are four lines starting Condition:, Criteria:, Cause:, Effect:, then a last line reading exactly: Management response: pending","Condition states 9 of 40 invoices totalling $48,200 were paid without a receiving record at the time of payment, and notes that 3 of the 9 were logged after payment","The text contains none of the words careless, ignored, wrongly or costing, does not claim a loss, and Cause says it has not been discussed or is not yet established"]}