Data Analysis

Powerful tools, combined with years of analysis and audit experience, provides you with valuable insight for strategic and critical business thinking. Our team is comprised of  experts, accountants and IT auditors, trained in ACL, Microsoft Access, SQL, XML and OLAP, who can help you identify what you need whether you’re looking for lost revenue or expanding the skills of your own audit department.

ACL Implementation and Partnering

ACL is a proven method that adds value to internal audits, increases efficiency and expands coverage. Our team, led by an ACL certified trainer, can help you:

• Reduce fees by increasing external audit dependence on your work
• Identify successful areas to implement ACL
• Create scripts for continuous auditing
• Develop best practices to reduce the learning curve
• Train your staff while working on your own data and projects
  
  
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Cost Recovery Plus^_TM

Our Cost Recovery Plus^TM program helps you recover cash owed to you, retain the cash you have and restructure your processes and controls to prevent future problems. Plus, we have a variety of tools that provide ongoing local support.

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IT Assistance

Verifying that user access controls are functioning properly in a system is generally a labor intensive manual process or requires expensive software packages. Our data analysis experts have the expertise you would expect to find at a large national firms with a fee structure competitive in your local market.  Our IT assistance includes:    

• Identification of conflicts between user access segregation of duties
• Validation of proper user access controls regarding passwords, terminated employee removal, etc.
• Cleansing of data prior to system conversion
• Testing of the mapping from the old system to the new  

Continuous Monitoring

Our continuous monitoring systems are custom-developed based on your systems, controls and specific requirements. The cost is dramatically less than off the shelf systems and focuses on your core needs. We provide fully documented monitoring systems and built in ACL that can be set to run as frequently as you wish. Some examples of tests we can perform from a payroll system include:

• Verification that gross pay is accurate based on hours worked and rate of pay
• Search for payments to terminated employees, duplicate payments to bank routing numbers and payments without deductions or withheld taxes
• Identification of overtime being paid to employees working less than 40 regular hours or to exempt employees