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CaseWare IDEA and SmartAudit® in Japan which is global partners of CaseWare IDEA offer instructor-led, on-site and classroom training to new and current IDEA users so they can learn the basics, fine-tune existing skills, or master IDEA.
SmartAudit® provides IDEA learning Center by Online and Classroom Training by OnSite at our meeting room. We continue to deliver valuable training courses for helping progress on your Data Analysis skills to not only our existing IDEA users but also upcoming IDEA users in Japan.

IDEA Data Import

Import is to read data for Analyzing Data by IDEA.

Description : IDEA basic functions

  • How to Import an Excel data into IDEA
  • Easy Import by drag and drop
  • IDEA Append

    Append is to append sevral data IDEA.

    Description : IDEA basic functions

    • Select IDEA data and open
    • IDEA menu > Analysis > Append
    • Input a file name

    IDEA Join

    Description : IDEA basic functions

    Join it to merge two data by using keys.

    • Select IDEA data and open, it's called Primary Data.
    • IDEA menu > Analysis>Join, select Secondary Data
    • Select match keys
    • Check an option in Join
    • Input a file name

    IDEA Summary

    Description : IDEA basic functions

    Summary is to summarizing by some groups which are Emproyee IDs, using Transportations, e.g.

    • Select IDEA data and open
    • IDEA menu > Analysis > Summary
    • Select groups by Summarizing
    • Check on boxes, statistical numbers which are Amount, Average, Standard Deviation , e.g.
    • Input a file name

    IDEA Extraction by Criteria

    Description : IDEA basic functions

    Data Extraction by Criteria

    • Select IDEA data and open
    • Select a cell, and Right click, Help is appeared, Select the menu in the middle, AAA include all records. AAA is depended on the cell you selected.
    • Click OK
    • IDEA menu > Analysis > Direct Extraction
    • Imput a file name

    IDEA Export

    Description : IDEA basic functions

    Export is to export into other file that you can read by other softwares, like Excel and Access.

    • Select IDEA data and open
    • IDEA menu > home > Export

    Visualize

    Description : IDEA basic functions

    Visualize is to visualize by Chart and show statistical number

    • Select IDEA data and open
    • IDEA menu > Analysis > Visualize > Select new Dash bord
    • Select a type of Chart and input required column
    • Click OK and Save

    IDEA Aging

    Description : IDEA basic functions

    Aging is to stratify and summary amount by duration between 2 date

    • Select IDEA data and open
    • IDEA menu > Analysis > Aging, Input reference date
    • Input Criteria, if you need. For example, paying day is null.
    • Select a duration which are 30, 60, 90 days
    • Click OK

    Script No1

    Description : IDEA basic functions

    Script is to Automate your Data Analysis

    • Select IDEA data and open
    • Open a History at Property Area
    • You can see some Scripts, and Select a Script and Right Click
    • Select this script only or all scripts
    • Edit it, if you need
    • Click a play button and run the Script

    Script No2

    Description : IDEA basic functions

    Script is to Automate your Data Analysis

    • Select IDEA data and open
    • IDEA menu > home > Project Overview
    • Select icons of IDEA files and Create Script
    • Edit it, if you need
    • Click a play button and run the Script

    IDEA Pivot

    Description : IDEA basic functions

    Pivot it to visualize a data by using 2 pivot

    • Select IDEA data and open
    • IDEA menu > Analysis > Pivot
    • Move some fields you want to analyse into line fields and column fields

    IDEA Join 5 option

    Description : IDEA basic functions

    Join has important options, it's very valuable.

    • Select IDEA data and open
    • IDEA menu > Analysis > Join, select Secondary Data
    • Select match keys
    • Check an option in Join
    • Input a file name

    IDEA Key Value Extraction

    Description : IDEA basic functions

    Key Value Extraction it to find key values in a field, you can extraction several files by key values at one time

    • Select IDEA data and open
    • IDEA menu > Analysis > Extraction Key Value
    • Click a square box and Click fiels you want to extract
    • Input a prefix name and Click OK

    IDEA Random Sampling

    Description : IDEA basic functions

    Description of IDEA Random Sampling

    • Select IDEA data and open
    • IDEA menu > Analysis > Sampling > Random
    • Input a number of Sampling
    • Comfirm a seed of Random, you can see it in the History
    • Imput a file name

    IDEA Data Search

    Description : IDEA basic functions

    Data Search is to search for specific charactors, and so on.

    • Select IDEA data and open
    • IDEA menu > Data > Search
    • Input charactors you want to search between wild cards, one is asterisk *, the other is question mark ?
    • You can add some criteria by using connectors AND and OR
    • Select some fields you want to search
    • Imput a file name

    IDEA Stratification

    Description : IDEA basic functions

    IDEA Stratification it to create bar chart, you can set the stratified interval

    • Select IDEA data and open
    • IDEA menu > Analysis > Stratification
    • Select some fields that you want to stratify
    • Input increment
    • Click lower limit, upper limit
    • Select an amount field

    IDEA function, data search by @isin

    Description : IDEA basic functions

    @isin is one of the function which IDEA prepares, to search specific charactors

    • Select IDEA data and open
    • Click Criteria at Property Area, right hand side
    • Imput @isin("XYZ", ABC)
    • Input charators XYZ which you want to search
    • Input field name where you want to search
    • For examples, when you want to search "business" in the field that name is "finding fields", @isin("business", finding fields)
    • Criteria can be saved, if you click the icon of disk.

    IDEA benford

    benford law is to check the frequency of the first-digit, second-digit data and so on.

    Description : IDEA basic functions

    • Select IDEA data and open
    • IDEA menu > Analysis > Benford Law
    • Select the field, and click on the check boxes

    IDEA functions

    Description : IDEA basic functions

    Please contact us, if you want to upload IDEA functions. We are always welcomed from hearing our IDEA users. Many thanks.

    IDEA Classroom トレーニング

    新型コロナウイルスの影響で、現在、IDEA Classroom トレーニングは休止しています。
    SmartAuditⓇでは、今後、OnlineのIDEAラーニングセンターを拡充する予定です。

    IDEA アカデミック Program

    IDEA アカデミック Program は、監査業界で活躍するために必要な経験を習得する学生のために、実践的な授業を提供する大学並びに大学院の授業を支援するために設けられたプログラムです。

    このプログラムに参加することによって、学生の皆様方は、データ分析ソフトウェアIDEAに触れることができ、強力なデータ分析ソフトウェアスキルを身に着け、監査業界での活躍が保証されます。

    "My students have told me they’ve gone to second and third-level interviews with firms, and they’re the only candidates who have had experience with data analytics. It puts them way ahead of their competition."

    DENIZ APPELBAUM, MBA, PHD AND ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE AT MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY