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Select a Tool

There are various types of audit software tools that can be categorized into the following subsets: 

General Audit - Tools that allow general data analysis on data files. 

Accounts Payable Audit - Tools that are specifically geared to finding recoveries in accounts payable data files.

Business Intelligence - Enterprise solution systems for maintaining and analyzing organizational data.

Computer System Audit Tools - Tools that complete audits of computer system logs from a control and security perspective.

Database/Spreadsheet/Flowchart - Tools that organize and report data.

Risk Assessment - Tools that assist in organizing and enhancing the risk assessment process, prior to using a data analysis tool.

Statistical - Tools that apply statistical routines to data files for enhanced data file intelligence.

 

Please see the Vendor Directory for a list of all tools.

 

 

Case Studies / Articles

  Using Excel as an Audit Software (PDF Format: 1.3 MegaByte File) - With this free step-by-step document, users can no longer say that audit software is difficult.  For now, even a tool as simple as a spreadsheet can and should be used as an audit software.   Also read related press release and article on ITAudit.

  

 

Tools / Links

Vendor Directory - see AuditSoftware.Net's comprehensive list of software vendors to meet your specific needs.

   

Impact of technology on Sarbanes-Oxley efforts. - Gives an overview of the key technology impacts due to the new Sarbanes-Oxley effort.

  

The Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on Enterprise Applications (Approva) - This whitepaper provides a summary of the SarbOx requirements and then how a software package looking for control breaches in an ERP package can be implemented to continuously monitor change.

 

 Will Yancey's Website (Will Yancey)- Website Listing various tools from a data mining, statistics, and sampling perspective.....to name a few.
OLAP Explained (BI3.Net) - Provides a simple explanation of On Line Analytical Processing ("OLAP"), a useful tool to help auditors work with data cubes and drill into such cube's information.

  

 MySQL Audit Software (Christopher Buse)- Zip file containing two presentations on using SQL as an audit tool.  The presentation references MySQL, a free open-source application.

   
The Role Of Confirmations In The Audit Process and How To Automate Them (CapitalConfirmation) - White paper talks to the need for improved confirmations of cash accounts in an audit and a new service that automates the entire process. Access vs. IDEA - A Comparison of Microsoft Access and IDEA showing the strengths and weaknesses of each for use in determining the appropriate tool for the audit task at hand.

  

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