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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. She shared her expertise in a recent Sageworks webinar, “ How to Increase Efficiency and Minimize Risk in the Audit Process.” Analytics can more effectively focus firm resources.

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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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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 Cut The Phishing Lines That Bind Us

PYMNTS

And, in an effort to overlay another sanity check, said Xie, it can pay dividends to pick up the phone and make sure a request to pay out funds to an account is legitimate — or whether the IRS, to give another example, wants the recipient to pay back taxes amid a slew of emails and phone calls that, at first blush, seem above-board. “I

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COVID and Commerce: Why a Pandemic Will Compel B2B Businesses to Adopt B2C Models

Perficient

If you’re noticing new customers requesting accounts within your business, or new users on your site, you should look at your commerce site analytics and see what these customer demographics look like. How are you handling sales tax in various states that you might serve through a B2C channel?

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Tax Agency Optimization – What Are the Benefits?

FICO

Over the last decade, state and federal tax agencies have increasingly adopted predictive analytics. By deploying mathematically-derived predictive models across historical data and current tax filings, they can segment taxpayers into different collection strategies and select some for audit. So what's the next step?

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Courier Scams – How They Work and How to Fight Them

FICO

These scams are very successful — here’s how they work: 1. How to Fight Back. This week we launched the first analytic models to profile and identify scams , built on the global community of Falcon Fraud Manager customers, the FICO Falcon Intelligence Network. FICO is investing heavily in the global fight against fraud scams.

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