The document provides an overview of ACL software products and services offered by DataConsulting Ltd. It outlines their expertise in data analytics and ACL. The presentation agenda includes an overview of ACL products such as Desktop, AX Core, Direct Link for SAP ERP, AX Datasource, Acerno, AX Gateway, and AX Exception. It demonstrates how the ACL software suite can help organizations achieve different levels of audit contribution from basic to continuous monitoring.

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ACL Products: An Overview
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Agenda
 Who we are
 Services
 ACL
 Demo
 Questions
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 Data Analytics Specialists
 Expertise in Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM), continuous
auditing, business modelling, and spreadsheet assurance
 Expertise in ACL
 UK Reseller & Implementer
 Certified consultants and trainers
 Over 35 years combined experience of ACL
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 Ad-Hoc support
 Co-Source
 Outsource / Data Analytics bureau
 Certified training
 Coaching / Workshops
 Resource placement
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ACL Products
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ACL Desktop
Key Benefits
 Analyse entire data populations for complete assurance
 Identify trends, pinpoint exceptions, and highlight potential areas of
concern
 Locate errors and potential fraud
 Identify control issues and ensure compliance with organisational and
regulatory standards
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ACL Desktop
Key Benefits
 Age and analyse financial or any other time sensitive transactions
 Cleanse and normalise data to ensure consistency and accurate results
 Automate analytic testing and receive immediate email notification of
results
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ACL Sample Applications
 Purchase to Payment: Duplicate payments, segregation of duties,
requisition & purchasing limits, vendor master
 Order to Cash: Prohibited customer, unauthorised discounts, credit
limits, missing sales order
 Purchasing Card: Invalid employees, duplicate purchasing cards,
exceed transaction limit
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ACL Sample Applications
 Travel & Entertainment: Transaction limits, split transactions, prohibited
merchants, commission checks, weekend & holiday transactions
 General Ledger: Validation of trial balance, duplicate journal entries,
suspicious journal entries, reversed journal entries
 Payroll: Invalid/Unauthorised employees, overtime approval, retirement
& termination
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ACL AX Core
Key Benefits
 Automation for greater efficiency
 Server security and speed
 Centralised working environment
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ACL AX Core
Key Features
 Automate analytics through the built-in AX Core scheduler – as easy as
booking a meeting
 Network multiple servers to create virtually limitless analytic processing
power
 The AX repository allows for the central storage of all audit content
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ACL AX Core
Key Features
 Direct database interface for secure, read-only access to databases
 AX Core Client – An interface allowing the more specialized users to
create and manage engagements
 Security and user rights for the AX central repository, managed through
Microsoft’s Active Directory
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ACL Direct Link for SAP ERP
 Helps solve data access challenges by enabling direct and seamless
access to your data
 Certified for integration with the SAP ERP application
 Gain independence and flexibility by selecting and extracting the SAP
ERP data you need, when you need it, while minimising your reliance
on busy IT resources
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ACL Direct Link for SAP ERP
Key Benefits
 Direct, Seamless Access
 Automatic Formatting
 Data Integrity
 System Security
 Focused Queries
 Automation
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AX Datasource
 Add-on component for ACL AuditExchange that provides streamlined
data access
 Powered by Informatica® PowerCenter®, the worldwide market leader
in Extract, Transform and Load technology
 Provides audit teams dramatically expanded and streamlined data
access capabilities that support automated data extracts and the ability
to mask sensitive data
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AX Datasource
Key Benefits
 Streamlined data access for more efficient and effective enterprise data
audits
 Get the right data at the right time
 Confidence in the security of sensitive information
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AX Datasource enables organisations to
 Extract data from ERM and CRM systems, databases and industry-
specific data format libraries
 Easily schedule and execute data extracts directly into the AX
repository
 Create data mappings using the visual transformation tool
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ACL Acerno
 Add-in for Microsoft Excel that is designed for working with data
analysed in ACL Desktop or AuditExchange
 Designed especially for auditors, Acerno makes Excel more efficient for
investigating audit findings
 Seamlessly integrate results into working papers
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ACL Acerno
Key Features
 Identify the data
 Understand the data
 Research the data
 Integrate results
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AX Gateway
 Provides audit with an intuitive web interface within the AuditExchange
repository
 Teams can focus on value-based audits by reviewing relevant audit
content, running analytics and uploading supporting documentation
without requiring any existing ACL Desktop experience
 Advanced integration with Microsoft Office® productivity tools
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AX Gateway
Key Benefits
 Point & Click Web Interface
 Advanced Integration with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
Visio and Project
 Increase Automation
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AX Exception
Key Benefits
 Support continuous auditing and monitoring
 Increase internal audit’s value to the organisation
 Remediate issues quickly
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AX Exception enables organisations to
 Distribute exceptions to business stakeholders for review and resolution through
a web-based interface
 Schedule automatic updates of exceptions
 Securely add supporting file attachments to any exception
 Assign exceptions to specific persons or roles for follow-up
 Configure resolution process stages and escalation timelines
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AX Exception enables organisations to
 Provide secure, read-only view of analytic details
 Create an audit trail with extensive logs and the ability to enter notes
 Filter exceptions for review and analysis and support basic trending, pattern
identification and management of false positives
 Integrate with several popular reporting tools
 Provide management with overall status view
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ad hoc repetitive continuous
Foresight Level 5
Monitoring
Level 4
Automated
Audit Contribution
Insight Level 3
Managed
Level 2
Applied
Level 1
Hindsight Basic
Sophistication
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AACM Technology
1. Basic 2. Applied 3. Managed 4. Automated 5. Monitoring
ACL Desktop
AX Core
AX Gateway & MS Add-ins
AX Exception
Direct Link
AX Datasource
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