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What are analytical procedures and their benefits?

Abrigo

Analytical procedures are beginning to become more prevalent in the audit world. According to the AICPA, analytical procedures consist of reviewing financial information by studying plausible relationships between data and evaluating it for consistency. They can: • Improve the quality of the analytics. By Jackie McLaughlin, CPA.

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Technology Enabled Data Analytics: Friend or Foe?

Abrigo

With the increased availability of useful data, analytical review procedures are becoming more important during the audit process. For example, greater emphasis on analytics encourages and almost demands that the auditor improve the quality of their professional judgment and skepticism. A WAY TO OVERCOME BIAS IN THE AUDIT PROCESS.

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The most useful (and rarely used) types of data analytics

Abrigo

Data analytics are gaining momentum as they are increasingly being used during the audit process. As auditors know, data analytics are required during both the beginning and the end of an audit. However, analytics can also be employed efficiently and effectively as substantive procedures. type questions. type questions.

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How to increase efficiency and minimize risk in the audit process using analytics

Abrigo

Since leaving public accounting, she has been an internal auditor, a tax preparer and a controller. Analytics can more effectively focus firm resources. Analytics can more effectively focus firm resources. What analytics cannot do is enhance professional skepticism for the auditor.

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Death, Taxes And Digitizing Insurance Payments 

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If death and taxes are sureties, insurance payments rank up there, as people insure homes and autos and apartments against any number of calamitous scenarios. Data analytics plays a role here, termed by Zalewski as “the often-forgotten side of [insurance] payments.”. Consider the process flow of an upcoming payment.

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The Cost of a Commercial Real Estate Loan

South State Correspondent

However, if you are not, or if you want to get both more accurate and granular, then we turn to the Kohl Analytics Group , whose sole focus is to help financial institutions with profitability starting with building a funds transfer pricing methodology. Of course, credit, interest rate, and liquidity risk in these loans need to be deducted.

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The Two Biggest Challenges Public Accountants Face

Abrigo

Data analytics, it appears, can be the remedy for the challenges we face. WHAT DOES THE AICPA THINK According to the AICPA in their 2015 publication Audit Analytics , “data analytics have the potential to transform the way financial statement audits are conducted making them significantly more effective and possibly more efficient.”

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