Beyond Sampling: How Data Analytics Can Strengthen Audit Assurance
About this Event
22 October 2026 | 12:00–1:00 PM
Audit teams are working with more data, often spread across more systems, while facing the same pressure to identify risk quickly and support conclusions with reliable evidence.
Data analytics can help teams examine broader populations, connect fragmented information and focus testing where the risk is greatest.
Join Tariq Islam, Managing Director and Founder of RapidLynx Consulting, for a practical discussion on how audit teams can use data more effectively to assess risk, target testing and strengthen assurance.
Four shifts changing how audit teams use data
From samples to full-population analysis
Reduce the risk of important exceptions being missed by moving beyond limited samples and examining the full available population.
From disconnected data to joined insight
Bring fragmented data together to reveal relationships, anomalies and risk signals that are difficult to see when information sits across multiple systems.
The session will also examine how to maintain a clear trail from source data to conclusion.
From raw data to clearer risk signals
Cut through large volumes of data to identify the patterns, outliers and exceptions that deserve audit attention.
From periodic testing to more continuous assurance
Move beyond one-off analysis and understand what is required to surface risk more regularly across the audit cycle.
Putting the ideas into practice
Learn how technology can support these approaches, with a short Caseware-led example showing how common audit analytics challenges can be addressed in practice.
The webinar will conclude with live Q&A.
Why this matters
For audit teams under pressure to do more with the data they already have, analytics can broaden coverage, focus testing more precisely and strengthen the evidence behind conclusions.
This session is relevant for audit, risk and assurance professionals looking to build a more practical, repeatable and data-led approach to assurance.
Meet the presenter
Tariq Islam
Managing Director and Founder, RapidLynx Consulting
Tariq has close to 20 years of experience across audit, risk and analytics. He has applied analytics across more than 100 audits, held Executive Manager Analytics roles within the audit functions of two major Australian banks, and worked in risk consulting at PwC.
He also develops and delivers data analytics training for the Institute of Internal Auditors Australia.
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