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This new blog series will see Dan Zitting, ACL’s Vice President of Product Management and Design share his superhero expertise from his past life as an auditor. Get ready to increase job performance and maximize efficiency with 25 simple analytic tests. As auditors, we all know the im

Fraud Magazine recently published a good article on using data analysis for fraud detection. One of the notable aspects is that the frauds described do not require particularly complex analysis to discover. Some fairly basic tests can provide indicators of the most commonly performed

One of the things ACL values enormously is hearing directly from our customers on how they have used our technology to improve their business and advance their careers. This past autumn, ACL held our Global Sales Conference here in Vancouver. During this conference, we were delighted

Today’s post comes from one of ACL’s Product Marketing Managers, Nigel Matthews, who specializes in our SaaS and Mobile Products. There’s a big gap between GRC theory and how organizations actually accomplish GRC. The gap almost always shows up when figuring out and assign

It’s not often that poetry inspires a blog posting on audit but in this circumstance, it is oddly fitting. Today is Robbie Burns Day – January 25th. Burns, the iconic bard of Scotland wrote a poem To a Mouse, no less. In the vernacular of his day, Burns wrote: The best-laid schemes o&

The most recent issue of Accounting Today features an article by Dan Zitting, the creator of ACL Workpapers and ACL’s Vice President of Product Management & Design discussing how audit departments can partner with their IT team as promoters of change when adopting cloud-based tech

There is a children’s book author by the name of Lemony Snicket, who penned a series entitled, A Series of Unfortunate Events, amongst other works. They are rather clever books and according to my daughter and my niece, they are really quite good. Things tend to go very wrong for the

Previously we looked at how you can improve script performance with some simple (yet often overlooked) commands. In case you missed the earlier posts on Optimizing Script Performance, read Part 1 and Part 2. Greetings scripters! Today, I would like to touch on a slightly more advanced

This Part Two of a series.  To read Part One, click here. Last week I had the pleasure of attending the 26th World Continuous Auditing & Reporting Symposium at the Rutgers Business School in Newark, New Jersey. This being my first WCARS, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Would this be