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CAREER BOOT CAMP FOR AUDITORS Job Offer? Think Carefully Before Saying Yes by Robbie Miller Kaplan Finding the "right job" can be as tough as finding the "right mate." Most people don't jump at the chance to pair up just because someone asks - and this should be true for the job offer too. Most people think carefully to identify and describe the qualities they desire in the "right mate." It is crucial to exert a similar effort when unemployed and seeking a new job. Looking for a job is too difficult to have to do all over again next year. For the rest of the tip click here! Good luck! Each month the AuditNet® Newsletter includes a career-related tip from Robbie Miller Kaplan, author of How to Say It in Your Job Search. If you like these tips, check out her books! For more career tips go the Job-Resources Web site. Risk Management: Faster, easier, more natural risk management: 7 time saving ideasby Matthew Leitch All around the world there are organizations in the public and private sector doing risk workshops and writing risk registers. The techniques used have only just begun to develop and there is still vast scope for improvement. In particular, most organizations can do their risk management in faster, easier, more natural ways, yet still get the same or better results. For the rest of the article click here. Looking for Auditors? If your company has any audit job vacancies that you are looking to fill, have your HR people contact AuditNet® to post the job and search for candidates. Using the jobs section helps support AuditNet® as well! For more information click here. AuditNet® Resource List UpdatesPlease let us know of links that are not working! AuditNet® StatisticsFor those who like to wade through the details on how popular AuditNet® is, click here for the current stats or go to the online WebTrends report.
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The Auditor's Guide to Internet Resources, 2nd Edition! AuditNet® Internet Boot Camp for Auditors Searching by Keywords In order to be a successful searcher you have to know the right
keyword or combination of keywords to use for a search engine.
Choosing the right key word can open the lock for successful Internet
searches. That is why I recommend that auditors have a thesaurus or
synonym dictionary available for reference when searching. For example
how many ways can you think of when conducting a search for fraud or a
fraud guide? Here are a few examples besides the obvious “fraud” or “fraud
guide”: Wouldn’t it be nice if we had an online tool that provided
inter-relationships between words? Well actually there is a Web site
that was launched for this specific purpose and it is called KwMap (www.kwmap.com).
KwMap.com is a complex keyword refining tool, aiming to help you
discover new keywords. It is a fact that search engines can only help
you in finding something if you know the right keywords. KwMap.com runs on a multi-gigabyte database of keyword inter-relations. You can search all common concepts and you will be presented with related keywords. It then provides you with a list of links to related sites. Stay tuned for the next Internet boot camp tip from the auditing Internet guru! Audit Work Programs Corner Auditors Sharing Audit Programs and Working Papers The following audit programs, ICQs, checklist
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AuditNet® What's New This Month? New pages were added to AuditNet® this month for Service Efforts and Accomplishments Reporting and Balanced Scorecard for Auditors. There is a new monograph on Audit Working Papers now available. For these resources and more go to the AuditNet® Online Virtual Audit Library (OVAL) Fraud/Forensics Business Identity Theft: The Latest Twistby Judith M. Collins Identity theft is rapidly becoming the most pervasive financial as
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Will you pass the Software Compliance test? by Rob Harmer
Many auditors are well aware of software licensing issues and the
requirements to manage your software licenses so that you can
demonstrate that you have legitimately purchased what you have
installed. However some auditors are not up to speed on the issues,
and some find it difficult to budget for resources (labor and
software tools) to enable checking to occur across an organization,
as it is not seen as a priority issue to consider.
If you can answer the following questions and are better than 90% confident you know what is installed can be verified by proof of purchase records etc , then don't bother taking the quiz! For the rest of the story click here.
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