This is an audio version of a blog article.

The original article was published here: https://riskinsights.com.au/blog/data-confident-internal-auditor-software

In this episode, we discuss software for using data in audit.

Links: 

• Risk Insights Blog
• KNIME
• Power BI

For more advice on analyzing data for audits, you can find The Data-Confident Internal Auditor on Amazon, with bonus resources available at data-confident.com. 

The book aims to demystify the use of data in internal audits through practical, step-by-step guidance. 

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This is an audio version of a blog article.

The original article was published here: https://riskinsights.com.au/blog/small-data-5-ways-to-extract-value/ 

In this episode, we discuss the use of small datasets for audits, and 5 ways that auditors can extract value from smaller sets of data.

Links: 

• Risk Insights Blog
•  The UK Government used open data to save £4m in 15 minutes

For more advice on analyzing data for audits, you can find The Data-Confident Internal Auditor on Amazon, with bonus resources available at data-confident.com. 

The book aims to demystify the use of data in internal audits through practical, step-by-step guidance. 

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This is an audio version of a blog article.

The original article was published here:
https://www.riskinsights.com.au/blog/4-audit-data-approaches

In this episode, we discuss four broad approaches to using data as part of audits.  These apply to both internal audit projects and performance audits.

Links: 

• Risk Insights Blog
• Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative (CTDC)

Note: The original article contains an image and a visual.
This audio version of the article includes a short explanation of each, but it would be easiest to see them in original form in the written version of the blog (link above).

For more advice on analyzing data for audits, you can find The Data-Confident Internal Auditor on Amazon, with bonus resources available at data-confident.com. 
The book aims to demystify the use of data in internal audits through practical, step-by-step guidance. 

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This is an audio version of a blog article.

The original article was published here:
https://www.riskinsights.com.au/blog-1/data-for-efficiency-in-audit

In this episode, we discuss how auditors could use data to achieve four separate sets of efficiency outcomes.  For the audit team and for their organizations and stakeholders.

Note: This article contains an Auditviz (a data visualization). For this audio version of the article, we will provide a short explanation of the graph, but it would be easiest to see the graph in its original form in the written version of the blog (link above).

Other links mentioned in the article:

• share intel and data among the team
• going beyond the initial remedial action

For more advice on analyzing data for audits, you can find The Data-Confident Internal Auditor on Amazon, with bonus resources available at data-confident.com. 
The book aims to demystify the use of data in internal audits through practical, step-by-step guidance. 

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This is an audio version of a blog article.

The original article was published here:
https://www.riskinsights.com.au/blog-1/relative-vs-absolute-to-combine-performance-or-risk-indicators

In this episode, we discuss how to understand combined relative performance across two or more performance or risk indicators.

Note: This article contains several graphs.  This audio version of the article includes short explanations of the graphs, but it is easier to see the graphs in their original form in the written version of the blog (link above).

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This is an audio version of a blog article.

The original article was published here:
https://www.riskinsights.com.au/blog-1/audit-data-governance-5

In this episode, we discuss principle 3: Maximizing benefits - data and analytics within Internal Audit.

Links in the article:

1.   Why you need to govern the use of data, within the I.A. team, in a different way.

2.   Why we must share data, that is collected or used for audits, with the whole audit team.

3.   Principle 1: Security and open access.

4.   Principle 2: Quality.

5.   5 core assurance analytics challenges

6.   "false positives" approach in this article.

For more advice on analyzing data for audits, you can find The Data-Confident Internal Auditor on Amazon, with bonus resources available at data-confident.com. 
The book aims to demystify the use of data in internal audits through practical, step-by-step guidance. 

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This is an audio version of a blog article.

The original article was published here:
https://www.riskinsights.com.au/blog-1/audit-data-governance-4

In this episode, we discuss principle #2 – Quality - for data and analytics governance within the Internal Audit function.

Links in the article:

1.    Why the use of data within the IA team (e.g., for audits) should be specifically, and differently, governed. 

2.    A point of view about keeping access to data - that is collected or used by the audit team - open to the whole audit team, where appropriate.

3.    The 3 key principles and principle 1 in detail.

For more advice on analyzing data for audits, you can find The Data-Confident Internal Auditor on Amazon, with bonus resources available at data-confident.com. 
The book aims to demystify the use of data in internal audits through practical, step-by-step guidance. 

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3 key principles for Data and analytics Governance within Internal Audit (DGIA).
A core set of guidelines that we, as internal audit professionals, can check ourselves against in planning for and using data and analytics.

This is an audio version of this blog article - the 3rd in the DGIA (Data and analytics Governance within Internal Audit) series.

LINKS

• This article (the original written version)
• The first article in the DGIA series
• The second article in the DGIA series
• The Core Principles for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing, as articulated by the Institute of Internal Auditors. Accessed here, at the time of publication of this article

For more advice on analyzing data for audits, you can find The Data-Confident Internal Auditor on Amazon, with bonus resources available at data-confident.com. 
The book aims to demystify the use of data in internal audits through practical, step-by-step guidance. 

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