Today is the fourth day of the Chinese New Year, and also the day I will start to go back to the office to work, however, I am only able to get the morning train ticket as all the other classes have been fully booked, so I apply with my manager to work from home and he approved it, so after reaching KL Sentral, I straight went to my room and start my laptop and get ready to start the first day of working from home. The thing I need to do today is to conduct the Prym Consumer Sdn Bhd’s kick-off meeting, I went through the documents of the previous year and noticed that it only has the CAATs document but there is no ITGC document even the audit working paper can be found. I then proceed with whatever I had, I then start to conduct the meeting, but suddenly the internet connection is poor luckily I am able to rejoin the meeting and continue to conduct the meeting, my manager then joined the meeting. After that we noticed that actually most of IT control is handled by the German headquarters, then my manager know about it and told the client that we will try to confirm this thing with the auditor and will come back to the client after that.
Then my manager told me that for this case, we are no need to do ITGC work as we can request the auditor of the Germany group to provide the ITGC report, we can then use it as the ITGC report for Pyrm Consumer, he will then ask the auditor to prepare a memo and send it to the group auditor.
Main things that have learned
-How to handle if the company’s IT is controlled by its group company as there will be
no need for us to do any ITGC work.
Comment/idea/opinion
It was my first time to try working from home and I would say there is pro and cons to this practice, the good is it is convenient as it saves time for me to dress up and to travel to the office but the bad is somehow there will a poor internet happened and it will affect if you are having a virtual meeting with the client. I will still prefer to work in the office, as for me, it will be more productive if you can meet with your colleagues or superior face to face, things can be done faster, but work from home still can be applied but only for those who are in need for it. Besides, my manager also suggested that I listen to and watch more English dramas so that I can improve my communication skill in English, I appreciate his advice and will try my best to improve it.
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