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Tax Compliance; Enhancements with Analytics

FICO

Tax agencies have a limited amount of resources to pursue tax compliance activities (collections and audit). Because of this resource limitation, they are required to build criteria to determine which individuals and businesses to select for audit and which collection cases to focus their efforts on. Three Types.

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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. What analytics cannot do is enhance professional skepticism for the auditor. Jackie McLaughlin, CPA, started her career in a Big 4 public accounting firm.

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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. Can current employees act as resources, or do you need to look at hiring new ones? Are you currently able to accept credit cards?

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How Data Guides A New Era For The ERP

PYMNTS

The enterprise resource planning ( ERP ) system has been a staple of corporate finance operations for years, acting as a central repository of data and a hub to initiate a range of processes, from accounting to procurement. But the ERP of today doesn’t look like it used to.

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