DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR AUDIT (DATA) Clear Choice Seminars, Inc. Asset Based Lending ABL Audit Training Seminars
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The First and Best ABL Specific
Data Analysis Course

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DATA is now part of Intermediate ABL Auditing

Are you or members of your staff still adding up credit memos on a calculator or spending hours calculating ineligibles from thick agings?  Heard about doing this on a computer but can't seem to get the skills needed to make it happen?  Uncertain about how to get the data from the Borrower's computer system?  Stressed-out from a stretched out staff that needs to be more efficient?  Tired of hearing the Borrower complain about the audit fees and travel time?  Would you like to learn how to use inexpensive software tools to get the job done up to 50% faster?  Can you afford to pass this up?  If not now, when your competition can do it faster and cheaper and better? 

Data Analysis Techniques for Auditors (DATA), takes a practical and affordable approach to the advanced analysis of electronic data.  Designed for advancing or advanced examiners, back office staff and CPA’s with a minimum of 30 ABL ineligible calculations or exams completed,.  This is the most advanced ABL audit course in the world.

Instruction is provided by Joseph R. Caplan, CPA, one of the industry’s leading examiners, creator of Intermediate ABL Auditing (the #1 ABL Audit course), ABL-Help, and Managing Director of FinSoft, LLC.  Almost two years in the making and focused from tens of thousands of hours of Audit, computer and DATA analysis experience in the ABL field.

FASTER

Students will learn to analyze agings, sales and cash journals, summarize credit memos, extract data, move data from Borrower systems onto Examiner computers and parse data -- All electronically and in record time.

SMARTER

MORE COMPLETE

The course requires a Pentium class PC loaded with Excel 97 or higher

Featuring a professional spiral bound manual with step-by-step instructions for hands-on examples.   Each example builds upon prior knowledge for constant enhancement and reinforcement of ideas.  Examples use real ABL scenarios and ABL accounting data.

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"Learn What You've Been Missing"

DATA Course Outline
1 Day Course included with Intermediate ABL Auditing

D A Y   O N E
PREFACE
 Objectives
 What is Data Mining?
 Data Mining vs Data Analysis
 Brief History
 Modules and Format
 Keyboard Input
 Menubar and Toolbar
 Course Files


THE PERSISTENCE OF DATA
 Objectives
 Data is Everywhere
 Data Terminology
 Why You Can Get Data
 Persistence Section Review
 Data Proficiency Review


GETTING DATA
 Objectives
 Data Formats and What to Get
 Limitations
 Getting the Data To A File
 Getting the Data From Them to Us
 Virus Paranoia
 Boolean Logic and Wildcards
 Exercise A: PDF2XL
 Getting Data Section Review Quiz
 Getting Data Proficiency Review

EXCEL FOR DATA ANALYSIS
 Objectives
 Exercise A: Good DATA Setup  Habits
 Exercise B: Importing Data to Excel
 Exercise C: Import Troubleshooting
 Exercise D: Basic Sorting
 Exercise E: Multi-Key Sorting
 Exercise F: Advanced Filtering
 Exercise G: Subtotaling
 Exercise H: Formula Tweaks
 Exercise I: Pivot Table Basics
 Exercise J: Pivot Table Tweaks
 Exercise K: Advanced Inventory  Pivots
 Exercise L: VLookup to Compare Lists
 Excel Section Review Quiz & Case
 Excel Proficiency Review

This course moves students from assessing client systems to advanced Excel data analysis and then into detailed testing techniques and fraud hot-spots.  Students will gain timesaving skills to acquire, convert, analyze, summarize and interpret borrower data.  The course is lead by an industry insider with 21+ years of ABL field examination and computer automation experience.

The borrowers are smarter,
you should be too!

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