Akums IA team discussing how to identify duplicate invoice bookings and payments as part of the ongoing audit in most efficient manner.

I believe the most efficient way would be to engage the central analytics team.

Yes, we can share the required data with them and they can perform the analysis for us

But we cannot share the data out of Akums environment, therefore the central analytics team will have to perform the analysis inside Akums environment

That’s correct. Let us connect with them on how to proceed with this limitation.

Challenge – Data could not be shared out of client environment.

The Audit team and the Central Analytics team discuss the requirement and the challenge

Would it be possible to perform the analysis without getting the data out of client laptop

Sure it is possible !We just need SQL Server and SQL Server Management Studio to be installed in the client laptop and we will be good to go. As part of the data requirement we will need the SAP tables as per our analytics docket.

Okay, we will arrange the same for you.

Audit team and analytics team worked together to get the required software installed in the client laptop, download required data and prepare the data in a template. Analytics team then run the analytics engine to analyze the data and find the duplicate invoices and payments.

Audit Team

Analytics Team

After receiving the analytics output, IA team validated the same and confirmed the exceptions with the client.

Many thanks for assistance in the analytics. It was very efficient and provided useful results. We will definitely utilize Central Analytics team for future engagements.

Sure, always willing to assist!