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A Guide to Reviewing Your Organization’s Data Mining and Data Analytics Practices
In the realm of computer science, the term data mining is interchangeable with the term knowledge discovery in data (KDD), and for good reason. There’s a tremendo...
Organizational Risk Assessment — Performed the Right Way
Risk Assessment DefinedWhat is risk assessment? Risk assessment is the identification and analysis of relevant risks to achieving objectives and forming a basis f...
Internal Controls: Why You Need a Vigorous Policy
A Working Definition of Internal ControlsFor accounting, risk and audit, internal controls are a set of accounting best practices activities designed and imp...
The Importance of Best Practices in Goodwill Accounting
Goodwill: An Elusive but Valuable AssetGoodwill might be the most valuable asset on your company’s balance sheet. It might also be the most difficult to place an ...
COSO: Step Up Your ERM, Integrated and Internal Controls
What is COSO? COSO is a framework used by businesses to establish a set of internal controls for integration into their business processes. This set of controls a...
Successful Audit Planning Is a Critical First Step in the Audit Process
While it’s true that no internal audit will ever go exactly according to plan, it is also true that audit planning is a necessary and important part of the overal...
Building and Maintaining a Robust Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Platform
The many ongoing risks that businesses face daily extend well beyond organizational risk and market risk to include a much longer set of risks that can be derived...
Human Resources Best Practices: Tools to Help Meet the Challenge
The ChallengeHuman resources (HR) professionals have a real and ongoing responsibility to the employees of the companies they serve. To the utmost extent possible...
Must-Have Tools for Accounts Receivable Risk Management
Getting to the Core of Accounts ReceivableAccounts receivable (AR) refers to the proceeds or payments that a company will receive from its customers who have purc...
What Is Internal Audit’s Role in Cybersecurity?
Corporations are always thinking about how to protect assets. A few of the white-collar crimes companies must consider include hacking/intrusions (cyber vuln...
