ACL Desktop is recognized worldwide as the leading stand-alone data analysis software for audit and financial professionals. Providing a unique and powerful combination of built-in audit analysis commands, ad-hoc data access and a simple scripting language, ACL Desktop enables you to gain immediate visibility into transactional data critical to your organization. Best of all, organizations can gain familiarity with the stand-alone ACL Desktop application and leverage that knowledge when stepping-up to the more capable AuditExchange business assurance platform.
ACL provides immediate visibility into transactional data critical to your organization enabling you to:
- Analyze entire data populations for complete assurance
- Identify trends, pinpoint exceptions and highlight potential areas of concern
- Locate errors and potential fraud
- Identify control issues and ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory standards
- Age and analyze financial or any other time-sensitive transactions
- Cleanse and normalize data to ensure consistency and accurate results
Data Integrity
ACL Desktop Edition features read-only access to all your enterprise data; source data is never changed, altered or deleted. It reads the data at the source — the data is neither constricted nor aggregated.
Flexible and Powerful
Select, identify and format data with ease using the Data Definition Wizard. Directly import and export Excel, Access, PDF and XML data with point & click commands. Flexible and powerful analytic capabilities respect varying technical aptitudes. ACL Desktop Edition features built-in analysis commands so there is no programming language to learn.
Easy Display & Reporting
View your results in an easy-to-understand, tabular format; one tab for each result. Commands display results either as a formatted table or as a graph. Integrate reports effortlessly into working paper packages, report documents, Crystal Reports®, or any application that accepts HTML.
Unbeatable Data Access
ACL Desktop Edition provides a single point-of-view for easy, immediate access to data. For example, with a few clicks, you can move from analyzing server data, to mainframe data, to SAP ERP data, or data stored on networked PCs.
