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Goal
Auditinfo.eu offers a special search engine for auditors. Only resources that are relevant to auditors and that offer information without limitations are included in the search engine. You can view a list of these resources via the menu.
Scope
The search engine is designed for everybody who is professionally concerned with auditing. Although different definitions of auditing exist, there are some common characteristics: 1) a judgement is given, 2) the judgement is about the management of risks and 3) the judgement is based on a norm. Financial, internal and IT auditors from Europe are primarily the intended audience for the search engine. In the current version, only resources from Dutch-, German- and English-speaking countries are indexed, as well as resources from international organisations.
Furthermore, the search engine predominantly indexes background information, which auditors can use directly in their work, like articles, standards, norms and slides from presentations. News, announcements of seminars and the like are left out of the search engine as much as possible. To guarantee the reliability of the information, primarily information from professional bodies, supervisory authorities and recognized resources is included. Other resources are checked minutely before they are added to the search engine.
Why this service?
This service has been developed from dissatisfaction with general search engines, because they do not always deliver the right results. A global search leads often to thousends of hits, which have to be evaluated manually to find the right information. On the contrary, with a detailed search there is the risk that not all relevant information will be found; a detailed search has to be repeated several times to get the right results. The goal of a special search engine is to correct these shortcomings.
Advantages and Disadvantages
There are some advantages and disadvantages of special search engines.
Advantages:
- ability to search quicker and more focused in relevant sites
- guaranteed reliable information from manually selected resources
- no unwanted search results, like advertisements and commercial information
Disadvantages:
- only to be used for the field of interest, not for general use
- the risk that the indexed resources are not complete, so that important information is not found