Audit and Due Diligence: Priorities and Best Practices

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Course Description

Overview

Learn how to prepare the paperwork, people, and processes to make an independent audit run smoothly.

Syllabus

Overview

Avoiding pitfalls and implementing strategies
Goal of an audit and due diligence

1. Priorities

Rocks and sand: Completeness
Accuracy with teams
Independence
Guidelines and standards

2. Pitfalls

Copyright and IP disputes
Legal issues
Wasting assets
Lack of expertise: Dunning-Kruger effect

3. Best Practices

Project management
Checklists
Version control
Interview priorities
Boots on the ground and technology
Using technology
Leveraging experts
Knowing your limits
Open communication

Conclusion

Next steps

Taught by

Jason Schenker

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