This class exists in these courses :
• IÉSEG > MSc in Accounting, Audit & Control > Semester 2 > 2,00 ECTS

Prerequisites

- General IT knowledge
- Descriptive statistics and econometrics
- Accounting basis

Learning outcomes

Perceive a global IT audit framework
- Realise a preliminary evaluation of risks related to an information system, and assess the risks related to the systems security, the systems adaptability, the activity continuation plan and management of accesses.
- Evaluate the coverage of the risks related to an information system by the appropriate criteria;
- Prepare the right recommendations to be implemented from the identified risks;
- Reproduce an IT audit interview in a real business context.

Identify advanced data analytics techniques through real-life examples (clustering, link analysis, tag cloud and text mining, etc.). The participant should be able to distinguish the main steps in a forensics data analytics approach and suggest the right utilisation for the right situation
- Define the right questions starting from the available data;
- Collect and pre-process data;
- Review models estimations and interpretation.
The students should also be able to use some basic methods packaged in data analytics software’s like R

Class type

Class structure

Teaching methods

• Case study
• E-learning
• Interactive class
• Project work

Assessment

Participation during the interactive sessions, a case study, a personnal project and a written final exam.

Recommended reading

• COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies) -

• ISACA Journal -

• IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT for Superior Results, Harvard Business School Press, 2004 -

Internet resources

• isaca

• GitHub Inc.

• kdnuggets

• Stackoverflow