Consulting Services

Our Implementation Services team can help you gain immediate business value from your ACL technology investment. By providing expert technical resources to address specific audit, compliance, and business challenges within your organization, we can assist you in driving and implementing a successful data analysis strategy.

Whether an organization wants onsite help or remote support, our ACL consultants are available to address specific audit, compliance, and business data analytic challenges within your organization. We can help new users get started by efficiently automating ACL data access and designing effective, high-value analytics based on best practice guidance for audit technology. If you are a seasoned user, we can help with new tips and tricks to advance your use of ACL technology. And whether you are an audit manager or a Chief Audit Executive, we can help you implement a sustainable technology program designed to rapidly achieve your organizations audit and assessment goals.

Data Access

• Provide configuration and set-up assistance for ACL Audit Analytics technology
• Creation of a centralized easily understandable repository accessible by all auditors regardless of technical expertise

Needs Assessment

• Facilitate a discussion among key stakeholders to identify and prioritize key control risk areas and associated analytics to address these control risks
• Prepare an Audit Analytics Implementation Program Report outlining an Audit Analytics Solution in an ACL Technology Framework

Script Development

• Automate standard routine and queries for quick and easy release
• Develop custom scripts or applications, allowing you to focus valuable resources on high risk activities

Analytic Design

• Assist with the design and implementation of the most effective approach to integrating ACL data analytic technology into organizational audit and control processes
• Guide your team in defining relevant data analysis tests

Continuous Auditing

• Define the Continuous Auditing functional and technical requirements for your organization
• Configure and test the Continuous Auditing Solution in accordance with your requirements

Packages

Audit Analytics Workshop

Let expert ACL Consultants help you address your most critical control risk areas through effective use and efficient implementation of an ACL Audit Analytics Program. The first step is assessing your needs by identifying and prioritizing your organization’s critical risk areas. Helping to mitigate these risks is the next step through the definition and design of an Audit Analytics solution using industry best practices in an ACL technology framework. Assistance in this package may include:

• Facilitating a two (2)-day Audit Analytics Workshop
• Identifying and prioritizing key risk areas for analytic development
• Defining an automated ACL Audit Analytics solution
• Sharing and guidance on Best Practices in the use of Audit Analytics.
• Creating an Audit Analytics Implementation Program tailored to align with your short and long term audit objectives

Installation, Configuration and Deployment Package

Let us help you optimize your ACL AuditExchange for faster ROI. Our Consultants can quickly and efficiently install and configure your AuditExchange environment enabling faster adoption of this technology within your audit team. For three days (24 hours), assistance in this package may include:

• Configuring Active Directory with IT staff
• Installing AuditExchange software components
• Load ACL objects to the Repository and My ACL Work areas
• Review workflow process with audit team
• Prepare initial offline server scripts for AuditExchange

Jump-Start Package

Get up and running efficiently with your ACL solution. An ACL Consultant on-site for three days (24 hours) to help get you started using and understanding ACL; then you will have an additional three days (24 hours) of remote Script development. Use these additional hours to automate key analysis tests that you plan to use on an on-going basis or to develop more complex routines that you may not have the resources to complete as effectively or efficiently as experienced ACL consultants. For six days (48 hours), assistance in this package may include:

• Optimizing your ACL software installation.
• Accessing and preparing enterprise data
• Coaching your audit team through the traditional learning curve, or providing customized assistance.
• Sharing and demonstrating short-cuts using ACL
• Demonstrating automated Script development.
• Developing (remotely) automated customized scripts, specific to your needs.(five analytics or more, as feasible)

FastTrax Package

We help you optimize the installation, and design and integrate best practices into your audit analytics program to make the most of your new software. Our FastTrax package provides both on-site and remote assistance from an ACL Consultant for a total of 96 hours to help you drive effective use of your software. Depending on your specific objectives, For twelve days (96 hours), assistance in this package may include:

• Optimizing your ACL AuditExchange installation and providing guidance on data security, data control and Best Practices using ACL AuditExchange
• Identifying and prioritizing audit analytics to address key areas of risk
• Preparing your initial set of data to automatically feed the Audit Repository
• Designing new analytics and migrating existing analytics into the Audit Repository library
• Upon completion of FastTrax, estimates can be given for other components of the full ACL Advantage solution.

Continuous Auditing Package

Take your data analysis to a new level to increase automation, drive more results and bottom-line savings. We have the expertise to develop high quality analytics while allowing you to focus your valuable resources on high-risk activities. Either onsite at your organization or remotely, an ACL Consultant will provide support and services to help you meet your audit analysis needs: Following are examples of some automated Continuous Auditing solutions that have been completed for previous clients:

• Statistical Sampling
• ERP Segregation of Duties Analysis
• Payment Risk Analysis
• Purchase-to-Payment Analysis Applications
• General Ledger Analysis
• Fraud Detection and Investigation Applications