ACL CorporAte profiLe

Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) world gets, the more it encompasses the auditors point of view.
AMR Research GRC Profile, 2009

The more mature the

ACL Services Ltd. is the leading global provider of business assurance technology for industry, government and public accounting firms. With a suite of solutions, supported by professional services expertise, ACL technology provides confidence in the effectiveness of internal controls and the integrity of the transactions underlying business operations.
Industry Expertise and Partnerships
ACL has a 20+ year track record providing comprehensive data access, analysis, and integrated reporting solutions. Our international customer base includes 95 of the Fortune 100 and over two-thirds of the Global 500, the Big Four public accounting firms, and hundreds of national, state, and local governments. ACL software solutions are delivered in multiple languages to 14,000 organizations in more than 150 countries through a global network of ACL offices and channel distribution partners. With close alliances to professionals world-wide in the audit, compliance and financial communities, ACL is on the forefront of business assurance thoughtleadership. Strategic partnerships with organizations such as the Center for Continuous Audit at Rutgers University, the Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG), and The Institute of Internal Auditors (The IIA), provide opportunities for ACL to contribute and guide the development of best practices for analytic technology. need to be more productive, and better focused on emerging risks. Audit teams are also seeking to deliver timely value to the enterprise by distributing, tracking and escalating potential issues for better business insight and control. ACL offers a range of solutions, scalable to the size and sophistication of the audit organization. ACL is the only platform that scales for ad hoc analysis, through to repeatable automated procedures, and continuous auditing and monitoring. ACL technology provides insight into the integrity of financial and business operations through transactional analysis. Testing transactional data is a highly effective way to identify and reduce instances of fraud and error, as well as to make audit processes more efficient. The use of data analytics provides increased assurance and offers direct benefits to the bottom line. At the same time, internal audit is able to provide a new level of assurance to the audit committee and other stakeholders. By using a shared platform that supports the entire audit team rather than confining the work to specialists more auditors can integrate technology into the audit process. Management also benefits from a central audit environment that makes it simple to review audit procedures to ensure the analytics are fulfilling business objectives.

Transforming audits value

There is increasing pressure on audit to do more with less. Internal audits role in business assurance is at the forefront as the profession looks to provide more confidence and transparency to audit committees and CFOs around the integrity of business transactions. To accomplish this, the current focus of many audit teams is to enhance both the quality of their work and effectiveness of the department using technology. They

As the leading data analysis software provider for audit, compliance and risk professionals, ACLs 22+ years of knowledge and experience have gone into the creation of ACL AuditExchange 2. Representing a complete end-to-end business assurance solution, AuditExchange allows your team to gain deep and extensive insights into the integrity and efficiency of your organizations operations. Comprised of software and services, it allows you to provide a higher level of business assurance. Securely Access Data Achieve greater audit coverage through timely and secure data access to virtually any data source. Automate Analytics Increase efficiency and gain greater insight by automating analysis. manage exceptions Enhance the value you deliver to the business by automatically distributing, managing and tracking exceptions.

ACL enables organizations to quickly realize maximum value from their ACL technology investment with proven analytics and a range of awardwinning professional services.
Result-Focused Services
ACL consulting services can assist your audit group and help you see results on your next audit. From identifying opportunities for analytics to optimizing your continuous auditing and monitoring program, our implementation and training experts can get your team up and running quickly. Professional consultants will help you manage and access your critical audit data and set up a centralized content management repository. See results in just days.

A CompLete BUSiNeSS ASSUrANCe SoLUtioN

To view case studies on how ACL customers are reducing fraud, error and abuse, please visit www.acl.com/customers

IT Audit Benchmarking Study 2009

The Institute of Internal Auditors (The IIA)

Summary of key findings among survey participants that use audit software for each function:
PRIMARy SOFTWARE USEd FOR DATA ExTRACTion PRIMARy SOFTWARE USEd FOR DATA AnALySiS PRIMARy SOFTWARE USEd TO DETECT oR invESTigATE FRAuD PRIMARy SOFTWARE USEd FOR ConTinuouS AuDiTing

Other 22%

Other 20%

Other 37%

Other 35%

Excel 3% SQL 5% SAP 5% Application queries 7%

ACL 58%
Excel 14% Access 9% IdEA 6%

ACL 51%

ACL 53%

ACL 65%

Excel 5% IdEA 5%

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