This post is in response to Xavier and Grant, who were kind enough to push back a bit on a previous post, Abandon ACL and Others? See their comments on that post.
I will respond to some of their points and reveal some more of my thinking as to why I believe that auditors need to become a LOT more technical.
Some may think I am just digging my hole a little deeper, but I’ve always loved the journey.
In this fourth post of the Python Journey, I want to discuss WHY I keep going on these journeys despite poor management support. And how I stay sane doing it.
While this post goes beyond my Python journey, previous journeys have been very similar, so in a sense, it has been one looong journey.
My first journey started with ACL, then came SQL, databases, virtual machines and virtual servers, and a host of other technologies, and finally Python and machine learning, all of which I pretty much learned/am learning on my own.
Not only because my audit management didn’t have much foresight or vision, but also because company management approved and launched tools without much guidance or training. Yeah, really.
So what keeps me going and why do I stay here?
Filed under ACL, Audit, Data Analytics, Data Science, Humor/Irony, Python, Technology
In my first Python post, I described the first steps of my python journey.
In my second Python post, I shared my thoughts about whether auditors could learn programming and Python (yes).
In this third post of the series, I want to describe how my audit management has supported my Python journey (spoiler: poorly).
In my previous Python post, I described the first steps of my python journey.
In this post, I want to respond to Grant’s comments that he left here re: auditors getting into programming, and specifically python.
[For my readers who don’t know, Grant is the founder, President and Chief Architect of Arbutus Software Inc, which specializes in audit analytics (he usually doesn’t mention that he was involved in writing the first versions of ACL too).
So his words have experience to back them up, and while I’m flattered he pops in here and there to comment on my little blog, I don’t hesitate to disagree with him occasionally .]
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been learning Python.
As a result, I haven’t posted for a long while, so I thought I’d crawl out of my Python den and discuss my journey so far. It has been an interesting slither with some sunshine, as well as a few dark days.
My Background
I’ve been an auditor for many years, and before that I managed a data/computer security department (see my ABOUT post for other details). I don’t consider myself a programmer by any means, but have automated several processes with a variety of tools, including ACL, command line, Visual Studio, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Power BI, and other tools.
Filed under Audit, Data Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning
Hi folks, it has been a while since I posted. I’m not dead or in solitary confinement.
I’ve just been busy studying Python, and it has taken a bit of my time.
I’ll post something soon….
Anybody else working on Python?
Filed under Audit
In my last post, I described Why Internal Auditors Should Care about Robotic Process Automation.
In this post, I’ll explore whether RPA can replace analytic packages like ACL, IDEA, R, and Power BI.
That might seem like a strange question, but a few managers and a VP have asked me just that recently. Here’s how I’ve answered it.
Filed under ACL, Audit, Data Analytics, Employment, Scripting (ACL), Technology
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