ACL Desktop is recognised worldwide as the leading stand alone data analysis software for audit and financial professionals. With a unique and powerful blend of built-in audit functions, unrivalled data access and straightforward scripting language, ACL Desktop provides access to business critical data so you can:
- analyse data in its entirety;
- identify trends, pinpoint exceptions and highlight areas of concern;
- locate errors and potential fraud;
- identify control issues and ensure compliance with organisational and regulatory standards;
- age and analyse financial or any other time sensitive transactions; and
- cleanse and normalise data to ensure consistency and accurate results
ACL Desktop provides immediate visibility into your organisation’s most critical data. When you have the ability to directly access and query each and every transaction (from a multitude of sources and systems), you provide a deeper level of insight. The data coverage enables you to examine 100 percent of your transactional data - every field, every record of interest - improving the accuracy and effectiveness of your analysis. Access diverse types of data with ease, including ODBC-compliant databases, variable length record files, legacy files, PDF and report files.
ACL features read-only access to all your enterprise data; source data is never changed, altered or deleted. ACL reads data at the source- the data is neither constricted nor aggregated. You can go where you need to, wherever your data investigation requires, confident in the knowledge that data quality and integrity are maintained.
Take advantage of the capability and unprecedented speed of ACL to rapidly process transactions, ensuring 100 percent coverage and the utmost confidence in your results. ACL analyses your data at a rate of up to 10,000 and 100,000 records per second, helping you complete data analysis tasks in a fraction of the time.
Select, identify and format data with ease using the Data Definition Wizard. Directly import and export Excel©, Access©, Adobe PDF and XML data with point & click commands. Users of varying technical aptitudes can manage ACL’s flexible and powerful analytic capabilities. ACL features built-in analysis commands so there’s no programming language to learn. Get going in days, not months!
Commands are pre-programmed for data analysis to provide a full range of analytic power, from simple classifications to complex tests and digital analysis. Analyse your data ad hoc, getting immediate results while following your methodology and investigating exceptions at any time.
View your results in an easy-to-understand, tabular format; one for each result. Commands display results either as a formatted table or as a graph. The log records activity so that you can review past analysis and quickly retrieve and compare results, gain repeatability, and proof. Share pre-formatted tabular results with other applications and integrate reports effortlessly into working paper packages, report documents, Crystal Reports, or any application that accepts HTML.
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