CHAPTER 6: SHADOW-WORK

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Figure 7: Archetype identification

As auditors, we often find ourselves in circumstances that are different, confounding the very best practices or checklistsat our fingertips.

•   Employees should not be set up as vendors in the system, yet there were no other means of reimbursing expenses.

•   Backups have been configured to run nightly, but the recent slew of notification emails revealed failures over the course of multiple days.

•   A newly implemented intrusion detection tool has been disabled due to an overwhelming number of false negatives.

•   An augmented round of approvals has yet to preclude errors from arising ...

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