Audit & Governance Careers Advice - October 2016

  • Audit Advantage: Motivation, the Force Within

    Posted on Monday, October 31, 2016 by Carol Mclachlan for CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    ‘Good things come to those who wait, better things come to those who go out and get them’, Anon. Motivation: what is it? ‘Motivation’, we use the term glibly, loosely, habitually. We speak of motivating our teams to perform, to hit ever-tortuous deadlines within ever-tougher budgets. And we talk of motivating ourselves to persevere with a diet, stick to the training schedule for a half marathon ...

  • Survey Results: Feeling the Career Fear?

    Posted on Thursday, October 6, 2016 by Simon Wright, CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    Setting the scene By their own admission, auditors and accountants are a conservative breed. Perhaps it’s a combination of having an accuracy mindset and a dislike of ambiguity and risk. Yet, whilst those in the profession can find certainty auditing the numbers, there may be less guarantees and more unexpected challenges as they progress along their career path. It is often said that the way a ...

  • IT Forensics: The Lowdown Part I

    Posted on Monday, October 3, 2016 by CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    Long gone are the days of storing an entire life’s worth of work on one single machine; now any one person may have an entire network of devices linking their data, evolving the way digital forensics experts must approach their investigations. “The Cloud is a major driver due to the way data is shared and synchronised across devices, particularly for investigations. While you may not be able to ...