Using the industry standard Audit Command Language (ACL) designed by the company founder, scripts can easily and quickly be created to automate repetitive manual tasks. Effectively get the attention of an executive audience by conveying the significance of analysis results through compelling, yet easy to create, data visualizations that provide additional business context, not just transactional data results.Įliminate manual effort and quickly help achieve significant cost savings by automating data import, export and analysis tasks. The business can also be reassured of the integrity and validity of results as a detailed audit trail of all analysis activities is always being recorded.Īnalysis results don’t resonate with upper management unless they’re presented in an executive context. From transactional databases, spreadsheets, flat files, business applications (including SAP ERP and SAP CRM) and more, ACL Analytics’ depth and breadth of connectivity helps ensure complete data coverage for increased business assurance regardless of the disparateness and variety of information sources.
ACL Analytics provides connectivity to a broad range of data sources. With so many disparate data sources in the enterprise, being able to capture relevant transactional data for a complete view of the business is no trivial task. Add to this the importance of easily sharing, presenting and distributing analysis results to stakeholders and the search for an effective analysis solution becomes even more challenging. The key goal behind the analysis is to identify data discrepancies that need more investigation – this requires more sophisticated capabilities than just summarisation and aggregation. However, data analysis specifically for audit, financial control and compliance is easier said than done. Whether the objective is to provide business assurance, improve controls, or ensure compliance, it will be difficult to draw any credible conclusions to help the business without analyzing the underlying data in detail. Internal audit, financial control and compliance professionals are faced with the challenge of reliably achieving objectives while addressing uncertainty and acting with integrity. Cleanse and normalize data to ensure consistency and accurate resultsĭata analysis doesn’t have to be an arduous, manual task.Age and analyse financial or any other time sensitive transactions and.Identify control issues and ensure compliance with organisational and regulatory standards.
ACL Analytics (formerly ACL Desktop) is recognized worldwide as the leading standalone data analysis software for audit and financial professionals.