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Maximize Risk Management and Audit Efforts Using Online Benchmarking Data

Webinar Delivered on April 25, 2006, 1 p.m. EST

Total Time: 40 minutes

We recently gave a webinar on using external benchmarking data to improve the quality of audit and risk management efforts. Now, you can watch this webinar whenever you like as we have saved the presentation to a Macromedia flash video (readily viewable through your Internet browser). By watching the video, you will learn to:

• Assess the cost and quality of your external auditor.
• Improve your risk management efforts by analyzing industry-specific control deficiency information.
• Perform an improved financial statement analysis by auto-calculating financial trends and incorporating up-to-date industry information.
• Use numerous online data sources in order to view external benchmarking in action.
• Additional Bonus: Receive a free whitepaper at the end of the webinar on the state of SEC filings surrounding the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Click Here To See Video (Macromedia Flash)

To learn more about the external data sources discussed in the video, please see the following websites:

• Audit Analytics ( www.auditanalytics.com ) - Meta-tags SEC filings for easier searching by auditors, insurance companies, lawyers, and companies complying with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations. Ask for Joe Cyr for more information and pricing.
• AuditNet.Org ( www.auditnet.org ) - Organizes libraries of audit programs for re-use on engagements.
• Austin Tetra ( www.austintetra.com ) - Automates the process of matching business partner listings to extensive databases for aligning 220 data elements. Email mike.laduke@austintetra.com for more information
• Hoovers ( www.hoovers.com ) - Allow for company research on business partners. Call Marcel at 512-682-4905, mention AuditSoftware.net, and get a 20% discount
• ProfitCents ( www.profitcents.com ) - Automates all financial period comparisons and ratios, completes an industry analysis automatically, and produces a plain language text-based report.