Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
Efectuamos nuestra revisión
English translation:
We performed this/the review/audit
Spanish term
Efectuamos nuestra revisión
Efectuamos nuestra revisión por espacio de cuatro semanas de trabajo, tiempo en el cual se revisaron todas las operaciones del proyecto, para llevar a cabo estas revisiones nos personamos en las oficinas del proyecto, lugar que funcionó como base de operaciones del equipo de trabajo de la firma auditora.
My try:
We conducted our examination during a four week period, time during which all the project operations were examinated?
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Proposed translations
We performed this/the review/audit
Suggested translation:
We performed our review/audit in a four week period, in which all project operations were reviewed.
To perform this review/audit, we went to the project offices, which served as a base of operations for the audit firm engagement team.
Comments:
"Trabajo" is often used by CPA firms to refer to an "engagement" in English.
"Equipo de trabajo" is "Engagement team"
Other examples of "engagement"
Socio encargado - Engagement partner
Gerente encargado - Engagement manager
Hope this helps.
Over 29 years of translating almost exclusively for big 4 and 2nd tier international CPA firms
we performed our review
we performed the audit
Here is my translation for the first segment of the text:
We performed the audit over a four work week interval that consisted of auditing all the project operations.
I translated the second clause as a defining clause and changed it from passive voice to active voice, so it would sound more natural to a native English speaker audience because active voice is typically preferred over passive voice.
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philgoddard
: I don't think it matters whether you say performed, conducted, carried out, or anything else.n
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We conducted our audit
Oh, and it took them four work weeks, not three... Also, "time during which" sounds a little strange. You could say ", during which time", or better yet, end the first sentence with a period, take a deep breath, and begin with ". During that period, we reviewed/audited..."
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Note added at 3 hrs (2018-07-13 02:30:44 GMT)
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Actually, "We conducted the audit" would sound better; no reason to use "our", as Andrew aso mentioned.
We conducted our review
A standard expression used on reporting documents from EY, KPMG, etc.
https://www.google.com/search?q="we conducted our review" ey...
https://www.google.com/search?ei=8lNIW7nkDemTgAaribzgDg&q="w...
Discussion
We conducted our audit work during a three-week period, time in which all the project operations were examined. In order to conduct these revisions, we visited the project facilities, which served as headquarters of the audit firm’s task force.
In this case I translated "nuestra revisión" and "our audit work", "... examinado" as "examined", but I'm not sure if the "revisions" part is ok.