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最初由 cccxue 发布
[B]ITAudit is "Value Added Services, ", in BIG 5, it is only internal service department, when you try hard to perform Business cycle review, CAATs, Please think the true value of your testing. At least the audit fee is fixed, right?
If it is Financial audit, SAR is enough for Depr. testing; while substantive testing for Stock, or sampling for Stock NRV are enough, your hard calculaiton on Stock or FA is only value added services. Just image, when you find out 1-2 errors, audit told you it is minor errors, there is no impact to financial statement, you can only issue "management insights", hope that client buys in another consulting or assurance project", what a pity.
In China, IT audit is not mature, IT audit department is just part of audit dept. (3 out of Big 4), you are sharing your audit department revenue, your brother in audit smile at you....
While, if for consulting services, your CAATs work cannot compare to OLAP, DW consulting from local consulting or global consulting firm; while for IT audit, you cannot say you are IT Strategy, IT Implemention consultant. Ha.... [/B]
Yes, you are quite right. I am always confused about the role IS audit is playing. But now I am not confused again. In many cases, client's management does not care much for the financial statement. They do not care much for bad debt provision, stock provision, cut off or something. You know, these things do not mean anything to the client's business. While they like very much the management insights. So IT auditor's involvement is always proven to be a good way to improve service level and have more sales opportunities. To auditors, IT auditors have a lot of opportunities to know how the client runs its business and learned many things, which makes them feel much better than finanical auditors.
I think IT auditors can be good internal auditors instead of consultants |
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