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Technology for Business Assurance
Copyright © 2010 ACL Services Ltd.
ACL Business Case
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Business Case Outline
ACL Introduction Impact to the bottom line – Revenue leakage: Errors & Fraud Primary goals: Why ACL? ACL solution functional diagram
– High level report Analytic packages: prebuilt scripts ACL client results Summary of savings Pricing Sequence of Events
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ACLIndustry Leader21 Years of Business Assurance Solutions
11,000+ organizations in 150 countries
Fortune 100 95%
External Audit : Big 4 Audit firms 100%
Global 500 70%
Fortune 500 85%
Commercial
Public Sector
Public Accounting / Business Services
200+ departments in 37 national governments
500+ regional, state and local governments
Wells Fargo Foothill
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Impact to the bottom line – Revenue leakage: Errors and Fraud
Revenue Leakage Calculator
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Primary GoalsGoal ACL Impact
Proactively monitor risk exposure Quantify errors/revenue leakage through daily/weekly/monthly continuous monitoring. Recover money in a timely manner. Ability to fix controls before problem grows.
Reduce time and resources spent on manual controls testing for SoX 404 Certain repeated SoX controls testing can be performed by ACL on a continuous automated basis.
Reduce time and resources spent on manual processes to report on financials or exceptions Today: Manual process from SAP to Access to Excel. Takes a day to report for each month. Data integrity can be lost due to Excel.Reduce other manual hours spent on error verification (i.e. Check matching to Vendor invoices) – receive error exception report before checks are sent.
Automate data access from SAP and other data sources, run prebuilt tests within ACL, export results/exceptions to: centralized library email notification dashboard reportResults can be exported daily or run on adhoc basis, taking minutes – hours depending on complexity of test.
Identify control weaknesses. Proactively identify control breaches i.e. split transactions, duplicate payments, transactions just below thresholds
Take preventative measures to improve business process controls:Purchase to Payment | Payroll | Travel & Entertainment | Order to Cash | General Ledger
Use proven prebuilt scripts that ACL clients have found the most revenue leakage and fraud in high risk areas.
Alignment with internal and external audit Internal audit can leverage analytics and results for their audit plan.External audit can rely on ACL results, increase effectiveness of audit engagements. Utilize the same solution that the Big 4 uses and is familiar with.
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Continuous Auditing
Access virtually any data source and automate data feeds
Automatically distribute exceptions found during data analysis testing to multiple business stakeholders
Automation – Built-in Analytic Scheduler Server Analytic Processing Power
Content Management – Any File Type
Enterprise Data
SQL
ERP
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High level report example
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Analytics – Areas of Focus
Package: Purchase to Payment (35 scripts)
Category: Requisitions Purchase Orders Receiving Payables Payments
Bundles: Limits – single and split requisitions
Authorization – creating and approving
Data Validity – critical data fields
Segregation of Duties – creator/modifier vs approver
Purchasing limits – single and split PO
Order Authorization – Unauthorized purchaser
Data Validity – critical data fields
Segregation of Duties – creator/modifier vs vendor master record creator/modifier
Two Way Match – quantity variance: goods receipt vs PO
Data Validity - critical data fields
Segregation of Duties – goods receipts creator/modifier vs PO creator/modifier/approver
Limits – single and split invoices
Timing – retroactive PO’s Two Way Match – amount
variance: PO vs Invoice Data Validity - critical data
fields Segregation of Duties –
invoice approver vs PO or goods receipt creator/modifier
Suspect Vendors – prohibited, phantom vendor, unusual activity, 1 time vendors
Unaccrued Liabilities – good receipt w/o invoice after period end, invoices after period end
Two Way Match – amount variance: payment vs invoice
Duplicate Payments - 6 different types
Data Validity - critical data fields
Segregation of Duties – payment approver vs PO creator/modifier
Suspect Payments – manual payments, missing vendor information
# of scripts:
5 6 3 14 7
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Analytics – Areas of Focus
Package: General Ledger (22 Analytics)
Category: Validation & Profiling Journal Entry Testing
Bundles: Validation of Trial BalanceAnalysis of Month End Balances (SAS99)Validation of Control Accounts (SAS99)Profiling of Suspense Accounts (SAS99)
Data Validity Duplicate Journal Entries Segregation of Duties Suspicious General Ledger Accounts Suspicious Journal Entry Dates Suspicious Journal Entry Amounts Suspicious Journal Entry Description Invalid Account Classification Period Close Cut-Off Reversed Journal Entries Temporary Accounts Unreconciled Journal Entries
# of Scripts: 4 18
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Analytics – Areas of Focus
Package: Cost Management (23 Analytics)
Category: Accounts Payable Accounts Receivable Employee Transactions
Bundles: Vendor Payments Duplicate Payments Phantom Vendors Vendor Master Vendor Discounts Purchase Authorization
Limits
Customer Credit Sales Orders to Purchase
Orders
Payroll Travel & Entertainment
Expenses Corporate Credit Cards
# of Scripts: 12 5 6
Starter Pack (10 Analytics)
Utility Scripts
Split Transactions Incorrect Totals Even Dollar Transactions Transaction Aging Fuzzy Name Matches Matched Join High Standard Deviation Transaction Volume Summary Duplicate Transactions Suspicious Date Range
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ACL client results:
Engineering & Construction firm: San Francisco, CA– Purchase to Payment, Travel & Entertainment– Six Sigma focus– Savings of $140K/year in labor hours– Control/process errors especially in T&E
Manufacturing: Becton, Dickinson & Company– Purchase to Payment, Order to Cash and Payroll– First nine months – identified 4K duplicates worth $1.2M– Pre-controls monitoring 5000 control tests – reduced SoX compliance costs– Provided management assurance every procurement transaction subjected to 44
control tests
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ACL client results:
Biopharmaceutical: Talecris Biotherapeutics– P2P, T&E, Pcard, G/L, Payroll, Order to Cash– Manual processes, weak controls over cash mgmt– Found fraud rampant in troubled economy– 5 out of 60 centers = ~ $2M in fraud found
Manufacturing: Illinois– Updated all controls before ACL implementation; found $17K in duplicates
first week– Found plant in China had employees reselling precious metals back to
company (worth in millions)– Due to ACL analysis, putting GPS trackers in trucks to track total distance
and travel time to ensure no drug trafficking
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ACL client results:
Thomson SA: France, EMEA– VAT tax team – existing spreadsheet software had limited file capabilties,
slow calculation speeds, and did not provide Sarbanes-Oxley compliance capabilities.
– “ACL has revolutionized our audit methodology. We can now analyze large data files from SAP and cross-reference the information to find errors and controls gaps” – VAT Manager
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Summary of savingsYear 1 Year 2 (or Phase 2) Total
Recovery of Errors (potential – on low end)Vendor Payments error % by industry + T&E payments error % by # of employees + Fraud %
Ie. $9 050 000 1% of total potential = $90,500
Reduced manual labor hours – Excel reports Ie. 6 hours * $30/hour x 12 months= $2,160
Reduced manual labor on SoX controls testing Ie. 20 hours * $30/hour x 12 months= $7,200
Reduced manual labor hours – Check matching to Vendor invoices
Reduced time extracting data for external auditors
# hours to build and automate 45 control tests in Excel for Purchase to Payment, T&E, Payroll, Order to Cash, General ledger
Total possible estimated soft & hard cost savings* Not including increased areas of scrutiny that are not monitored today
Total ACL solution
Total ROI (excluding full potential of errors/leakage found)
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