The modern business and accounting landscape requires professionals to exercise and elucidate skills and understanding across many different avenues for both internal teams and external client communications. The strategic use of data visualizations has become an indelible resource for top auditing firms to represent complex datasets quickly and effectively. Review five audit areas that benefit […]
Author Archives: Brian Lewis
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Feb
Feb
Presented by our partner Crystallize Analytics Introduction Preparing adjusting entries often involves a lot of journal entries, staff input and tedious work. This common pain point can be avoided with the use of adjustment-only secondary ledgers in Oracle® E-Business Suite (EBS). As a more efficient processing of adjustments, adjustment ledgers reflect only adjustments without affecting […]
Webinars On-Demand
Now You See It: Understanding and Using the Power of Exploratory Visualizations to Gain Insight into Your Audit Data
27
Jul
Jul
Modern ERP systems can contain millions if not billions of transactions and balances. Auditing that volume of data efficiently and effectively using traditional sampling and tabular methods is difficult if not impossible. Moving beyond the traditional charts and graphs have long been a tool to allow auditors to illustrate audit findings and results, exploratory data visualization techniques can allow you to gain insights and identify audit issues that spreadsheets and sampling cannot. In this webinar, you will learn three exploratory data visualizations that you can immediately incorporate into your audits.
25
May
May
Are spreadsheets still a part of your IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) reporting process? For most companies, the answer is yes – thanks in large part to the complex requirements of IFRS, spreadsheets were often put in place to bridge the gap between the reporting differences in ERP systems and IFRS during the initial conversion […]
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Your AP Data is Telling You Something: Five Analytics to Identify Duplicate Payments and Other Irregularities
08
Sep
Sep
Patterns exist in your accounts payable data that can indicate overpayments, duplicate payments, or other errors. This webinar will teach you five easy analytics that you can perform using Excel to identify some of these patterns.
17
Apr
Apr
Data protection and security protocols have become more robust in the last two decades. This has been driven both by increasing incidents of data breaches – statutorily acts such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Gramm-Leach- Bliley Act, Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITEVH) Act, Health Insurance Portability and […]
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Ace your Audit: Preparing Your Oracle® E-Business Suite for a Financial Audit Webinar
29
Apr
Apr
Automation continues to transform whole industries – and finance and audit are no exception. Specific to the financial audit, most of the high-volume, routine, non-judgmental activities in real time are being transformed by software, leaving audit professionals more time to do what they do best: analyze results and make expert judgement calls. This webinar focuses on the framework and standards under which audits are currently conducted, and will showcase real-world examples where automation streamlines workflows to transform the entire audit process.
03
Nov
Nov
There are ways to leverage Oracle® E-Business Suite to run industry standard audit procedures and proactively identify areas of non-compliance in advance for a smoother audit process. Here are our recommended tips to Ace Your Audit: Know Why Automation is Important: Know how audit automation can facilitate current and future audit frameworks and standards and […]
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Oct
Oct
Automation continues to transform whole industries – and finance and audit are no exception. Specific to the financial audit, most of the high-volume, routine, non-judgmental activities in real time are being transformed by software, leaving audit professionals more time to do what they do best: analyze results and make expert judgement calls. This webinar focuses on the framework and standards under which audits are currently conducted, and will showcase real-world examples where automation streamlines workflows to transform the entire audit process.
26
Oct
Oct
For most companies, annual financial statement audits are an unavoidable part of business and remain the gold standard of assurance to stakeholders. These annual audits can be quite burdensome for the accounting team. In addition to daily business demands—the accounting team generally needs to prepare and pull schedules, load extracts, and provide supporting documentation. Due […]
