Are you an auditor, systems assurance professional, revenue assurance manager, IT security Sysadmin, network analyst, internal quality assurer, or an overseer of any organizational nervous system? If you are not using ACL, you need to re-evaluate your thresholds of acceptable detection risk i.e. the risk that despite all the technical oversight work you do everyday, you will not be able to detect risks of misstatements of revenues, controls, expenditures or any other information that your top management relies on for day-to-day decision making. With the introduction of new enterprise risk assessment tools combined with ACL audit exchange capabilities around the computer or relying on unverified data from your systems exposes a decision maker to the risk of taking a wrong decision.

“I used to rely on raw data from our billing system and the switch to make sure all our minutes on the switch are billed and properly recorded in the books of accounts” says a Telecom Revenue Assurance Manager in a top  telecom company in Uganda.“When we implemented ACL and developed continuous monitoring scripts of our switch and the billing system, management could not believe the investment value that we obtained from the purchase of ACL” he says.

Now with the introduction of ACL audit exchange, oversight assurance professionals will have a single platform to pool data and ACL tests and results to enable management to make correct decisions. “In these times of the global recession, you don’t want to take wrong decisions because of wrong facts derived from correct data”. Says Edgar Katarahweire, ICT Director at AH consulting.