Why Internal Audit Should Analyze the General Ledger and Trial Balance (1 CPE)

In this course, Claire Worledge will explain the benefits of analyzing the general ledger and trial balance as part of internal audit risk analysis.  She will show trial balance ratio analysis over time and explore how to identify those “needle in a haystack” unusual and suspicious journal entry transactions.

Learning Objectives

• Learn how correlation can speed up your review of data analytics results
• See how to apply correlated results to form a risk score
• Get ideas for data visualizations that show the risk level per third-party and transaction

Duration: 1 hour (approximate)
CPEs Available: 1
Knowledge Level: Basic
Category: Data Analytics
Prerequisites: None