Audit & Governance Careers Advice - March 2015
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Posted on Monday, March 23, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
We would all like to be paid more for the work we do. Though you may derive true meaning from your work as an Internal Audit Manager or get job satisfaction in your Credit Risk role, most of us are motivated by fiscal returns. Know what you should be paid Being informed is the best way to know that you are receiving what you deserve. Quietly ask around for what your colleagues are receiving. Do ...
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Posted on Monday, March 23, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
For those of you who are considering embarking on an audit career or changing your role within the industry, you may wish to consider Quality Assurance . Often confused with Quality Control , this strain of auditing involves establishing policies and procedures to ensure an organisation’s standards are maintained and enhanced. To fully contemplate a career in this field, you will need to know ...
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Posted on Monday, March 23, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
A recent ABC investigation has concluded that full time earnings for men and women within the same job continue to be staggeringly disparate. Taking findings from a 2015 Australian Bureau of Statistics report, the ABC found that the distinction between male and female wages for the same occupation is as much as 48%. Of course, naysayers can plead skewed statistics or even that “men work harder ...
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Posted on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
People typically associate auditors with numbers and figures. When thinking of auditors, their mind may conjure an image of an introverted type solitarily hunched over spreadsheets and a calculator. Whether this has ever been an accurate representation of an auditor or merely a stereotype is debatable, but what is certain today is that an auditor cannot hope to thrive in their profession without ...
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Posted on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that as an auditor we do want to do the best job possible. We can make a glut of resolutions in January to develop our career, put in more effort, and change habits from those of apathy to determination but sometime around mid-March those resolutions can deflate beneath the burden of tiredness, lack of motivation, or distraction. It becomes necessary to ...
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Posted on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Many a time on these pages we have asserted that auditing is people-business; we've waxed lyrical about communication , managing up and down, and building relationships. We never said it was easy, so what about those times when it all comes down to one difficult individual? You know the score: someone who just doesn't 'get it', who blocks you, is uncomfortable to deal with, and at the extreme, ...