Career Advice - October 2015
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Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It's conference season It's crazy conference season and as a veteran circuit speaker, this is the peak time of my working year. Closely akin to the external auditor's January equivalent (those of us with the glut of December year ends and insane international reporting deadlines), it feels like a full twelve months are compressed into just six weeks. But this year I'm taking a new perspective, ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
All well-appointed within the heart of Europe, Belgium , Luxembourg and the Netherlands represent prime breeding ground for internal audit jobs , and 2015 has seen the demand for the internal audit function strengthen as companies refocus their energies away from cost-cutting and towards investment, financial control and strategy changes. Located in the heart of Europe and regarded as the ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Both Germany and Switzerland are well reputed for offering an exceptional standard of living, and for professionals looking for internal audit opportunities in either region there is a rich market across both commerce and industry and financial services . Widely reputed as offering the highest quality of living in the world, Switzerland is at the top of most internationally flexible auditors’ ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2015 by Carol McLachlan for CareersinAudit.com — No comments
You know how it is when someone in your office starts coughing and sneezing? You're sympathetic, offer them some kind words of commiseration, but all you can really think of is 'please don't give it to me'. We're all familiar with, (and wary of,) the infectious symptoms of physical disease - and we are naturally inclined to take defensive action. But did you know that emotions and behaviours can ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Both Germany and Switzerland are well reputed for offering an exceptional standard of living, and for professionals looking for internal audit opportunities in either region there is a rich market across both commerce and industry and financial services . The first point to note is that while gender imbalance in the workforce is essentially a global issue, the German government in particular are ...
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Posted on Friday, October 9, 2015 by Simon Wright, CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Setting the Scene In the wake of a number of corporate scandals this millennium, Enron and WorldCom arguably being the most notable, the question of ethics and professional standards for the accounting profession has understandably come under much greater scrutiny. To some degree, different industry bodies and governments have been proactively tackling this issue over the past decade. For ...
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Posted on Thursday, October 8, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
Cyber security career opportunities in the UK are at their highest as technologies evolve at lightning speed and hackers of every kind find ways of undermining their integrity just as quickly. With an undeniable shortage of cyber security experts in the UK market , employers are quick to assert the types of individuals they are interested in attracting and the skills that make for a coveted ...
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Posted on Tuesday, October 6, 2015 by CareersinAudit.com — No comments
It would take a particularly news- and social media-deficient individual to not have heard about the most recent and high profile cyber security breach; the impact of extracurricular marital dating site Ashley Madison’s data leak was felt round the world. The fate of companies including Ashley Madison, Fiat Chrysler and Dixons Carphone, all targeted by hackers in the past quarter alone does ...