Utilize Big Data Analytics Now
How you can use the benefits of Big Data, by incorporating internal and external sources, to improve analytics in your audits
Big Data is "big talk" these days. Computing power and the “Internet of Everything” has advanced dramatically over the last decade. In this informative 2-hour training, we discuss how to obtain and import data from a variety of internal and external free sources to improve their audits and help departments take those first steps towards the Big Data Revolution.
Specific learning objectives include:
- Understand how to maximize your own internal data before looking for external sources
- Review some of the top Big Data sources being utilized by finance professionals today
- Discover a world of free information on business partners and research the company in a sample case study format, using no more than an Internet browser.
- Combine structured accounting data analysis with unstructured textual analysis of words, combination of words, and emotive tones.
This 2-hour training includes downloadable templates, so you can follow along with the practical examples.
This is a previously recorded AuditNet® webinar with Jim Kaplan and Rich Lanza
Your Instructor
AuditNet® is the Global Resource for Auditors, and serves the global audit community as the primary communications resource with an online digital network where auditors share resources, tools, and experiences including audit work programs and other audit documentation.
As the first online portal for the global audit community, AuditNet® has been at the forefront of audit websites dedicated to promoting the use of technology. http://www.auditnet.org/
Jim Kaplan, the founder of AuditNet®, became a Certified Internal Auditor in 1984. He has continuously promoted and encouraged the use of technology and the Internet for audit productivity.
As an active member of the IIA, he has held many positions at the local and International level. He is a founding member of the Northern Virginia Chapter and served as Chapter President in 1989. He retired from his government audit director position in 2005. He is the founder and President of AuditNet®, the global resource for auditors, and has been identified as an Internet for Auditors pioneer. Jim's contributions to the profession were recognized by the IIA (2007 Bradford Cadmus award) and the Association of Local Government Auditors (Lifetime Achievement Award). In addition to the IIA, he is a member of the Association of Local Government Auditors and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.