Whether you are a data-driven auditor, a financial manager or a (business) controller, we invite you to join this Machine Learning journey with the Coney Minds team.
In recent years we have integrated data analysis into our Audit and Analytics services. As Coney, we have been at the forefront of further improving data analytics in the broader business assurance domain since 2005. We are ready for the next step: discovering the unknown.
Machine learning gives the power to automate the future and can help auditors & controllers in an impressive way
- Pieter de KokClustering is a Machine Learning technique that involves the grouping of data points. In theory, data points that are in the same group should have similar properties and/or features, while data points in different groups should have highly dissimilar properties and/or features.
Clustering will support the audit process becoming smarter. New insights, highlighted by the Machine. Maybe we will find some unknows, never known before.
– Pieter de Kok
That’s a good question. There’s a lot of excitement and hype in the market when it comes to the use of Machine Learning. Tons of experts and gurus, but the actual true value of Machine Learning is still to be discovered. Just take a fair view at today’s Assurance landscape for example.
Today there is no audit file or internal control program where (internal) assurance is derived from the use of Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence. No. At the same time, we all feel that inexplicable drive and curiosity to discover the power, the potential added value of Machine Learning.
So, let’s work together and start the journey tomorrow. Maybe Machine Learning shows to be:
For the past 12 months we have been working within Coney Minds teams to develop ML Zero. The beginning. We can provide internal auditors, external auditors, financial managers and business controllers with a Machine Learning Portal to upload data sets. In the portal we have trained a number of Machine Learning models on a small scale with the knowledge of today.
The Coney Minds team will guide you step by step throughout the journey. We must also discover and explore the unknown together. We may be the specialist in data analysis, process mining and data visualization, but we are just as much a part of this journey as you are.
We think the journey with Coney Minds will take at least three to five years. The idea is that we will investigate your datasets based on specific audit, controlling or analytics issues within the ML Portal. We do this ‘for free’. In the coming years, we must above all learn ’together’.
For each data set, our data science team members feed back the findings and we investigate the results and adjust the ML models where necessary. We do not charge for this in phase ML Zero.
Only when we make the step from ML Zero to ML Next, the phase in which data sets are periodically analyzed in our ML Portal for an audit, controlling or analytics issue, do we make a price agreement.
If you are interested to join the journey and to discover the unknown, please contact us at Coney Minds per info@coney-minds.nl or call us at Rotterdam office at 010 284 92 88. What will be your investment in year one?
We understand that question, it is a fair and relevant question. What would be the value of finding unknown? We do not know. Because in ML Zero we first work together ‘for free’, the investment is mainly time. Yours time, ours time, we learn, you learn. It is a journey that we go through together.
Only when we move to ML Next phase will we agree further fee fees for the use of Coney Minds Machine Learning portal.