A question that came up in SuperUser round-table (4/16/08) …
Should Internal Audit teams create specialty data analytics groups to do all analytics work or should they cross-train their audit “generalists” to use analytics tools?
In favor of the specialty data analytics group -

Highly-skilled data analytics professionals can be leveraged to perform all analytics tasks
Less-skilled audit “generalists” [...]

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During our ACL Power User round-table, we discussed the challenges in rapidly on-boarding new users. We anticipate that this topic will continue to be one of further discussion. We have identified the following training efforts in place at our respective companies:

Send new users to training courses sponsored by ACL or other vendors.
Holding in-house ACL [...]

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Another concern raised at the SuperUser round-table (4/17/08) applied to the “value proposition”. During the conversation, we recognized that the most difficult hurdle to reach when using audit analytics for testing or risk management was in getting the data from its I.T. home and preparing it for use in ACL. This process is [...]

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