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Introduction to audit data analytics (ADA)

How audit data analytics can be a game changer for our profession

Created byGarth Sheriff
BeginnerUpdated Jan 26, 2021

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleDefining audit data analytics (ADA)
  • check_circleGuiding the profession into the audit data analytic mindset
  • check_circleApplying ADAs, including data visualization, through a customized software walkthrough
  • check_circleExploring the future of ADAs for the audit profession

About This Course

This introductory on-demand course will examine how auditors traditionally use analytic procedures such as means, modes, and variance analysis. Collectively these traditional techniques are referred to as summary statistics. However, audit data analytics are much more than summary statistics. We will define and explore the term "audit data analytics" or ADAs. We will then walk-through ADAs' application, including data visualization techniques using a custom programmed software.

The application of the ADAs has the potential to be a transformative change to how auditors perform testing. The change is analogous to Major League Baseball's journey to embracing data analytics to help make decisions captured in the book and film Moneyball. This video aims to help auditors move into a data analytics mindset to unlock the opportunities of integrating ADAs into an audit engagement.

Course Content

9 activities • 8 videos • duration: 1h 27m

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Introduction-Part11 videos • 5 min
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What is audit data analytics: Definitions-Part11 videos • 6 min
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What is audit data analytics: Debrief of CM01-Part11 videos • 8 min
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ADA and the Canadian Auditing Standards-Part11 videos • 4 min
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ADA walkthrough: Audit Analyzer-Part11 videos • 20 min
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Interview with Michael Thomas-Part11 videos • 20 min
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Benefits and challenges (SWOT Analysis)-Part11 videos • 11 min
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ADA Mindset and SMART goals-Part11 videos • 10 min
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Final Quiz-Part11 quiz

Your Instructor

Garth Sheriff

Founder of Sheriff Consulting

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I am the founder of Sheriff Consulting which specializes in the development and delivery of accounting, auditing and foundational skill courses and workshops. Teaching and working with professionals in diverse and dynamic learning environments has been my passion and experience for over 10 years. As a qualified Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) and U.S. Certified Public Accountant (CPA), I work with finance and accounting professionals in both the U.S. and Canada to meet their training and development needs. My goal has always been to create an engaging and interactive learning environment. To help my own path of continual improvement in achieving this goal, I have also received training and worked as a professional actor. I am a member of ACTRA (the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists) and a graduate in improvisation from the Second City Training Centre. http://sheriffconsulting.com/

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

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    Yes it matches

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    Keith M.
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    Excellent introduction course. I really enjoy Garth's approach and presentation style. I will definitely be looking for more of his courses.

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