Description:
Transform your audits and analytical skills to high gear. This course concentrates on the science and art of discovering and analyzing patterns, identifying anomalies, and extracting other useful information in data underlying or related to the subject matter of an audit through analysis, modeling, and visualization while planning or performing audits. The course is also applicable to financial managers and program evaluators looking for patterns and correlation, cause and effect relationships, impact analysis and possible fraud assessment.
Duration:
3 days
Level:
Intermediate
Who Should Attend?
Auditors, financial managers and program evaluators with three years of experience and seasoned professionals with limited exposure to the subject matter.
Prerequisites:
- Analysis Techniques for Auditors (AUDT7900)
Credits:
1.8 CEU's, 24 CPE'sLearning Outcomes:
- Explain the importance of data analytics in auditing
- Identify patterns and outliers for audit
- Describe the difference between structured and unstructured data
- List difference of common data analysis tools
- Establish "reasonable assurance" that audit data can be used to service the audit objective
- Describe and comply with federal law and agency regulations
- Satisfy Government Accountability Office (GAO) standards for data validity, reliability, and integrity
- Discuss multiple tools, including descriptive statistics, Benford's Law, correlation, etc.
No sessions scheduled
Other Recommended Courses:
- Practical Statistical Sampling for Auditors (AUDT8112)
- Analysis Techniques for Auditors (AUDT7900)
- Using Metrics to Assess Performance (AUDT8027)
- Audit Evidence and Documentation (AUDT7011)
- Auditing Performance Outcomes (AUDT9012)
Module 1:
- Consideration of Data Validity, Reliability, and Integrity under Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards
Module 2:
- Data Integrity
Module 3:
- Descriptive Statistics
Module 4:
- Graphs
Module 5:
- Outliers and Their Description
Module 6:
- Other Anomalies
Module 7:
- Correlation
Module 8:
- Hypothesis Testing