Description
The course provides a concise overview of how practitioners can improve and diversify their online research by using non-Google search tools. Attendees discover a whole new universe of prime information that is essential in due diligence, enterprise research and financial audits but mostly invisible to Google. Participants walk away with scores of new information sources and streams that will complement their use of Google and sharpen their due diligence skills as trusted business advisers.
In this seminar, you learn about:
- Why Online Research Skills are so critical for Accountants in their roles as Arbiters and Ultimate Deciders of truth
- Why Accountants have a greater ethical standing compared to other professions
- Why you need more than Google to search the web
- Google is great but not perfect
- Vertical vs. Lateral searching
- Online research strategy tips
- General search engines
- Cluster search engines
- Privacy search engines
- User-generated Content (USG) Search Engines
- Image Search
- Podcast search
- Public Records Search
- Company Search
- People Search
- News Aggregators
Who Will Benefit:
Practitioners who want to use more than Google when searching the Internet, and diversify their online due diligence toolbox and strategies.
