General discussion

Jeff Sorenson, the new IDEA product manager has a blog post at the CaseWare Analytics web site about understanding bad data and using the bad data file.  You can find the post here: https://www.casewareanalytics.com/blog/idea-tech-tip-understanding-bad-…

Interesting video on the CFE web site by the vice president of internal audit at Cambell Soups.  She talks about using data analytics (namely CaseWare) in her Internal Audit Shop.  You can find the video here.

I just saw an interesting blog post on the CaseWare Analytics web site.  Some reasons why Excel isn't a good fit as a statistical tool.

http://www.casewareanalytics.com/blog/excel-good-statistical-tool-maybe…

One of the biggest changes in IDEA 10 is the addition of visualization and discovery to the application.  Alain Soubliere who is the Chief Product Strategist for IDEA is blogging about it at the CasewareAnalytics site.  You can find the first part here:  http://www.casewareanalytics.com/blog/visualize-your-success-idea-part-1

I am currently at the 2016 IDEA users conference called Bright Insights.  It is a two and a half day conference in Orlando, Florida.  I presented this morning with my friend Sunder Gee on "Concepts to Automations: A Collaborative Approach" which talks about how we have collaborated over the years on creating IDEAScripts.

The Director for Product and Corporate Marketing at CaseWare Analytics, Anu Sood, is blogging about the conference over at the CaseWare Analytics web site.  So for she has posted four blogs:

Greetings
I am getting started as an  Idea Scripting and Training Contractor after leaving Caseware recently. 
Any thoughts, leads, support greatly appreciated and anything I an do to help out as I am new to Brian's site here but hope to become a regular.

Interesting blog by Alain Soubliere over on the CaseWare Analytics web site: http://www.casewareanalytics.com/blog/data-analytics-secret-tool-savvy-…

The following code, generated by Excel 2013 VB, with the nessassary changes , will not work: 
 
    wbOut.ActiveChart.SetElement (msoElementPrimaryCategoryAxisTitleAdjacentToAxis)
ex.Selection.Caption = "Month"
    wbOut.ActiveChart.SetElement (msoElementPrimaryValueAxisTitleAdjacentToAxis)
  ex.Selection.Caption = "Revenue"
 
The Category Axis title is ok, however Idea will not let you add title to the Value Axis.

Interesting article in accounting today about getting management to buy in with the use of Data Analytics.  http://www.accountingtoday.com/accounting-technology/news/getting-the-b…

David Coderre who is a long time data analytics guru is writing a blog about his career.  He recently retired from the Canadian Federal Government.  You can check out the blog here: http://caats.ca/blog/