Conference report — CACS '93: Mickey Mouse auditing

✍ Scribed by Ivan Croxford

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Weight: 228 KB
• Volume: 1993
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0960-2593
• DOI: 10.1016/0960-2593(93)90075-c

✦ Synopsis

A Coopers and Lybrand study of the use of spread sheets had identified some major problems and errors in critical business data. This suggested that the risks in spreadsheet applications may be greater than might have been considered and there was, therefore, a need for auditors to carry out reviews of such applications, testing the data and critically examining some of the assumptions made.

Other presentations on PC networks were provided by Jerry Fitzgerald on 'data communications in a PC environment' and P J Corum on the security and audit issues of Novell Network.