Dan Meyer at Tick Marks has brought my attention to a KPMG survey that reports audit committees are becoming more concerned about IT risks on financial reporting. 90% believed that IT oversight deserved more time at audit committee meetings. By constrast, 80% of committee members were satisfied with audit committee oversight of management judgments and […]
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IT risks should be a focus">Audit committees recognize IT risks should be a focus
June 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Category: Governance
Tags: audit committee, Governance, IT, management, oversight, risk, strategy, Tick Marks
Mind maps made productive for public accountants
March 20th, 2007 · 2 Comments
I’m a huge fan of visualizing things. Things like data. Data is fun, sure, but not as fun as a data visualization. Pictures are worth a thousand words, and pretty pictures have gotta be worth at least 1,001. What’s helping me visualize data these days? Mind maps. That’s because there are two really cool web apps that […]
Category: Web
Tags: audit, engagement, relationship, risk, visualization
Emerging markets are exciting, but risky
August 3rd, 2006 · 1 Comment
I’m in full study mode now, preparing for the final exam on the way to a Chartered Accountant (CA) designation here in Canada. I wrote a case yesterday about a company that needed a certain high tech piece of equipment to compete in a globalizing and consolidating industry, and was considering two opportunities. They could […]
Category: Business
Tags: Bolivia, developing, emerging, instability, investment, market, risk, socialism, South America, Venezuela
