Insights Into Maximizing Your Data Analysis Skills
ISACA Report: Barriers and Enablers to Auditors Accepting GAS
Despite the clear benefits of using a data analytics tool in audits, many auditors have still not embraced the technology. For a recent report titled, ‘Barriers and Enablers to Auditors […]
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Cangemi: Perspectives from Rutgers 40th WCAR Symposium
Michael P. Cangemi is a senior fellow at Rutgers and a founding advisory Board Member of the Rutgers Continuous Auditing and Reporting Lab. The opinions expressed in this article are […]
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Fun & Demos at Professional Development Week Conference
We are still excited from exhibiting at FMI’s 2017 Professional Development Week Conference, (also known as PD Week). The conference is one of the largest learning events targeted to financial […]
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What’s New in IDEA 10.3
The newest release of IDEA is here! Here’s some details on what’s new and exciting about IDEA 10.3—and why you should upgrade now to save time, gain deeper insights and […]
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Using IDEA to Keep Payroll Fraud in Check
I’m at the IDEA User Conference this week and what an opportunity to mingle with IDEA power users and enthusiasts! My first session was led by Audimation Services’ Jill Davies and Carol Ursell on how to use IDEA to detect payroll fraud.
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IDEA Tech Tip: Using @ Functions in Tax Audits
Q: I’m a tax auditor and would like to use IDEA to check sales and purchases records, look at mark-ups and verify that taxes are recorded correctly. Which @ functions can help me when appending files, sorting purchase invoices and linking names with similar addresses?
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Technology Skills: 2018 Audit Team Trends Report
In our newly released 2018 Audit Team Trends Report, where we interviewed six audit industry experts about their views for 2018 and reported on our survey of more than 800 others in the audit field, we found that data analytics was the top technology skill that will be important for auditors to have this year.
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IDEA Tech Tip: Equation Editor and Regular Expressions
Q: I’ve heard that you can use regular expressions in IDEA’s equation editor. Can you show me how to validate a U.S./Canada phone ... Works and Government Services Canada For more IDEA tech tips or to ask your own IDEA questions, visit IDEAScripting.com.
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IDEA 10.3 Webinar Q&A, Part 1
Last week we hosted a webinar to launch version 10.3 of CaseWare IDEA Data Analysis software. Covering the newest features and enhancements included in this release—including Python integration, updates to Character Field Statistics, enhancements to Visualization and more—the webinar generated a lot of interest from our audience. Here are answers to some of the questions our hosts received during the event.
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IDEA 10.3 Webinar Q&A, Part 2
We recently hosted a webinar to launch version 10.3 of CaseWare IDEA Data Analysis software. In part 1 of this series, we answered some of the questions we received from our audience about some of 10.3's features and enhancements, such as Python integration. These are the answers to the last question from attendees.
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