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New Solution: Strategic Management Analytics Reports (SMART)
SMART is the latest addition to Prodigy’s fleet of solution suites that is ready to be implemented to assist with your audit process. With over 500 reports available for download, auditors no longer have to struggle with data access and scripting. These reports cover over 50 functional areas such as Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Asset Management, Banking Operations, Budget Management, Cash Disbursement, Credit Card Management, Debt Operation, General Accounting and many more.

For more information on SMART, please click HERE or EMAIL us for assistance.


Important Notice to all ACL Users
With effect from 31st July 2008, ACL Network Edition will be discontinued and replaced with the newly launched ACL AuditExchange.

ACL AuditExchange is a department-wide audit solution that provides access to any type of enterprise data regardless of source and size, and enables every audit team member to document and review findings and share results. With ACL AuditExchange, you can even create a central audit repository to capture and preserve audit knowledge.

For more information on the discontinuation and ACL AuditExchange, kindly contact us at enquiry@prodigy-group.com for assistance.


New Product Launch: Pentana, SymSure, Intellinx
The Prodigy Group is happy to annnounce that we are launching the following three new products into the market:

Pentana: An integrated suite of audit management software designed for audit professionals to manage a wide range of risk, audit, compliance and other corporate governance procedures.

SymSure: A simple yet sophisticated monitoring solution that provides automated monitoring of risk and controls within early warning system.

Intellinx: An innovative, first-of-its kind, cross-platform surveillance system for compliance with privacy regulations, providing detailed audit trails of user activity in a wide range of platform.
 
 
 
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Desktop Edition | Server Edition | Direct Link for SAP R/3

ACL AuditExchange | Audit Publications
 
 
ACL Desktop Edition
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ACL software is recognised worldwide as the leading software for data access, analysis, and reporting. It allows you to transform data into meaningful information, helping you achieve your business objectives to add value to your organisation.

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With ACL, you can:
  • Analyse data more quickly and efficiently, independently from IT department, with an intuitive user interface, pull down menus, toolbars, and point & click commands
  • Rapidly analyse transactional data in files of any size to ensure 100 percent coverage and the utmost confidence in the results
  • Produce easy-to-understand reports—easily design, preview and modify results on-screen with drag-and-drop formatting
  • Identify trends, pinpoint exceptions, and highlight potential areas of concern
  • Locate errors and potential fraud by comparing and analysing files according to end-user criteria
  • Identify control issues and ensure compliance with standards
 
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ACL Server Edition
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ACL – Server Edition provides direct, interactive access to mainframe operational data. With ACL, you can query 100 percent of a data population with complete confidence. Search for every exception, leveraging mainframe processing power. Total data coverage enables you to examine every field and record of interest, improving the accuracy and effectiveness of data analysis. Powerful commands designed specifically for data analysis include Age, Stratify, Sample, and Duplicates.

ACL Server Edition – z/OS
ACL Server Edition for z/OS employs a single, consistent client interface to provide easy, immediate access to data. With a few simple clicks, you can move from analysing information stored on z/OS mainframes, to server data, to SAP R/3 data, or networked PCs. ACL Server Edition, z/OS reads and compares data, allowing the source data to remain intact for complete data quality and integrity.

ACL Server Edition- W2003
The latest member of ACL Server Edition for Windows Server 2003 provides direct, secure, read-only access to Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server databases. It preserves data integrity and respects privileges and rights. Through an easy-to-use Data Definition Wizard, you select the tables, fields and records needed for analysis. ACL automatically creates a user-defined view of the data. You can use Condition, Where and Order clauses to access only the data that you need, ensuring the most efficient implementation of your requests.

 
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Direct Link for SAP R/3
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Direct Link for SAP/R3 enables you to take control of your data analysis, giving you direct, seamless access to your SAP R/3 data. Direct Link adds data selection and extraction to the unsurpassed data definition, analysis, and reporting capabilities of ACL for Windows to provide an end-to-end solution for analysing SAP R/3 data. Direct Link features in the following:

  • Direct, seamless Access
  • Automation Formatting
  • Data Integrity
  • Automation
  • System Security
  • Multi-table Queries
  • Focused Queries
  • Field-level Table Searches
  • Flexible Query Extraction
 
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ACL AuditExchange
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ACL AuditExchange is a department-wide audit solution that addresses the analysis requirements of each team member, whether conducting ad-hoc, repetitive, or continuous audits. It provides access to any type of enterprise data regardless of source and size, and enables every audit team member to document and review findings and share results. With ACL AuditExchange, you can create a central audit repository to capture and preserve audit knowledge so even when people leave, the remaining audit team can continue to efficiently produce consistent, high quality audits.

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Click HERE to learn more about ACL AuditExchange!

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Audit Publications
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Ekaros Analytical Inc. was founded in year 2000 providing publications, training and consulting services relating to mathematical tools, with particular focus on size laws (such as Benford's Law). In year 2003, Ekaros launched a line of audit publications, starting with the Payables Test Set for ACL, part of the Effective Analyst Series. The Effective Analyst Series provides tools for busy professionals to quickly start applying sophisticated computer-aided audit tools and techniques (CAATT). As a third-party publisher, Ekaros starts by developing better methods and then creates tools to fit them.

   

CAATTs & Other BEASTs for Auditors (Second Edition)
by David G. Coderre
David Coderre is a recognized expert on audit software and analytical techniques. He has more than two decades of experience in teaching, consulting, and daily audit work in public and private organisations.  In this fascinating work, he will teach users on the state of the art in computer-aided audit techniques, with practical guidelines on how to get needed data, overcome organisational roadblocks, build data analysis skills, and manage large-scale projects.  Mr Coderre combines his extensive knowledge of modern audit theory with over 40 insightful case studies that illustrate the practical use of automated tools in a number of different business applications.

   

Revenue Test Set for ACL
by Richard B. Lanza
Revenue Test Set, the second release in the Effective Analyst series, is built around a comprehensive checklist that focuses on specific objectives for revenues and accounts receivable that every audit must meet. Each test requiring data analysis is assigned a specific ACL script, and the scripts are collected in an easy-to-use menu format.  Using the menu-driven interface you can start doing necessary, worthwhile work within a few minutes of opening the book.  Key tasks are flowcharted and all source code is provided so that users can modify the scripts to suit their own unique requirements.

   

Payable Test Set for ACL
by Richard B. Lanza
The Payables Test Set presents a comprehensive list of objectives that every audit of the accounts payable function must meet. Tests are translated into computer-aided audit routines and fully documented, including flowcharts and source code.  Within the menu-driven interface you can start doing necessary, worthwhile work within a few minutes of opening either book.  Every application is open-ended: you can include additional batches, customize existing ones, create a new interface, whatever you wish.

   

Fraud Toolkit for ACL  
by David G. Coderre   
Auditors know the importance of detecting fraud.  The incredible volume of transactions in today’s business environment makes electronic frauds more common and computer-aided audit tools an absolute necessity. As a ready-to-use fraud detection kit, to search for gaps or duplicates, find high or low transaction values, do Benford’s Law testing, or perform dozens of other tests.  As a training aid for understanding ACL script creation, including adapting and customizing existing scripts for your own tasks

   
Fraud Detection: A Revealing Look at Fraud
by David G. Coderre
The second edition of Fraud Detection: A Revealing Look at Fraud by David G. Coderre reinforces this book's reputation as a must-have item for auditors and fraud investigators.  The original edition first appeared in 1999, and soon became a classic. Coderre's step-by-step approach to using data analysis tools, supplemented by more than 60 lively case studies, has been read and appreciated by thousands of auditors. This second edition, published by Ekaros Analytical, reflects nearly five years of additional fraud investigation experience, with revised and expanded text and new features.
 
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