April 2011
Beginner
504 pages
12h 37m
English
Overview
Improve your audit results and extend your capabilities with Mastering IDEAScript: The Definitive Guide
Run audit programs and data analysis projects with ease. Create a local automated audit system. Meet current audit standards. Do it all with Mastering IDEAScript, the official guide from CaseWare IDEA®.
Designed to help the complete novice develop the skills required to write applications using IDEAScript, this resource starts with simple topics, progressively working up to more complex areas. It helps you understand what automation can help you do and set reasonable goals for working with IDEAScript.
Although basic familiarity with the IDEA® program is helpful in the use of this book's concepts, neither programming skills nor special equipment is required. Here, you'll find plain-English, easy-to-follow explanations for:
Creating your first IDEAScript application
Using the IDEAScript Editor
Writing code quickly and efficiently
Building complete applications without any code at all, using the Macro Recorder
Troubleshooting errors that occur in your application
Performing basic tasks, such as indexing, sorting, and closing your database
Finding information easily within databases
And much more!
Along with a companion website containing all of the scripts found in this book, Mastering IDEAScript: The Definitive Guide is packed with practical techniques and rules of thumb to help you understand the workings of IDEAScript. The days of filling in forms and answering countless questions when running audit programs are over. From now on, let IDEAScript do the work!
IDEA® is a leading provider of data analysis software targeted to auditors to use as a tool for fraud detection and internal control assessment. IDEA® software is used in sixteen languages in more than ninety countries, by major accounting firms, governments, and corporations in all industry sectors, as well as by universities as a teaching tool.
IDEA® is a registered trademark of CaseWare International Inc.
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