Presentation Overview Background Accessing Retail Data Warehouse Using ACL Accessing ODBC Accounting Package Using ACL Accessing AS400 Using ACL Accessing Unformatted Retail Receivables Sequential file Using ACL
Audit Software Customers Store Audit Wholesale Audit Financial Audit Third Party Audit (Financial Statements, Benefits, Insurance) Government (State Tax, EPA, IRS) Management or Audit Risk Monitoring
Audit Tests using ACL Footing Recalculation Sampling Matching Stratification Benford Ageing
Audit/Risk Objective Error Fraud Misstatement Completeness Accuracy Validity
Data Source Server Midrange GEAC Databases (Payables, Ledger, Assets, Receivables) JDE Databases (Shipments, Receivings, Inventory) Data Warehouse
Tools Browsers Cubes Access Databases Excel Spreadsheets ACL AS400 Query
Support Financial and Accounting Systems Analysts Information Systems Staff Accounting Staff ACL Help Desk
Data Verification Financial Statements Monthly Reports Cycle Reports of Payments and Receipts Edit or Exception Reports Data Verification Report
Server Data Access Financial Package ODBC Databases Data Warehouse Extracts – Access Database Confidential, Sensitive Files- Access ODBC Retail Data Extracts – Sequential Text
Retail Sales Data Warehouse Data Extracts Piggy Back on Retail Cubes Pick Up and Store Data Monthly Used by Store Audit, 3 RD Party Audit, Loss Prevention Detail and Header Files can be Merged to Add Register and Employee ID Monthly Statement Reconciliation by Location Store large amounts of data on a monthly basis
Accounts Payable Most Popular Views Developed by IS and used by Audit and AP Security Set Up by IS Used by Store Audit, Wholesale Audit, 3 RD Party Audit, IRS, Fraud Cyclical Report Verification Software Executed by Internal Audit Distributed via EXCEL Spreadsheets Classify, Stratify, Age, Benford, Sample, Foot, Recalculate
MidRange Applications JD Edwards AS400 Applications Query Software (World Writers) Developed by Information Systems Analysts Query Executed to Download Data to Server by Internal Audit. Used by Wholesale Audit, 3 rd Party Audit Cyclical Report Verification, or Accept by Faith Distributed via Excel Spreadsheets Classify, Stratify, Age, Sample, Foot, Recalculate
Extract Retail Accounts Receivable Retail System is Server Application converted from minicomputer. Internal Audit Executes Batch Files and Programs developed by Information Systems Basic Ansi Text files transferred between servers. More formatting of the files is required.
Getting to the Data Using ACL - Overview