ACL is offering FREE training as part of their bootcamp series, which started in September 2011. The training consists of a video presentation that includes ACL demos. The best part is that you do NOT have to be a current ACL customer or even have a copy of ACL.
The purpose of the series, according to ACL, is to teach basic skills and deal with common problems that ACL users encounter. Each session lasts about 30-40 minutes, followed by a Q&A session. The bootcamp is led by Shane Grimm (see his blog comment here).
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Auditors use the following secrets and tricks to ensure that control owners can’t run and hide. If you do audits of any type and don’t use these tricks, you might want to consider adding them to your toolbox. If you are the one getting audited, beware!
Here’s some of my favorite sneaky tricks:
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Always test the test plan and make sure it actually tests the control or risk being assessed. And make sure the tester (especially when you are observing the tester rather than performing the test yourself) actually follows the test plan.
During a segregation of duties (SOD) test for an expense report approval system, an auditor was observing a client perform a test. The client was supposed to enter his user ID into the Approver field to demonstrate that he could not approve his own expense report.
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