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2003 CISA Examination

REGISTRATION DEADLINES:
EARLY: 5 FEBRUARY 2003
FINAL: 2 APRIL 2003
EXAM DATE: 14 JUNE 2003

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gain Worldwide Recognition with CISA
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The mark of excellence for a professional certification program is the
value and recognition it bestows on the individual who achieves it.
Since 1978, the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) program,
sponsored by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association®
(ISACA), has been the globally accepted standard of achievement among
information systems (IS) audit, control and security professionals.

The technical skills and practices that CISA promotes and evaluates are
the building blocks of success in the field. Possessing the CISA
designation demonstrates proficiency and is the basis for measurement in
the profession. With a growing demand for professionals possessing IS
audit, control and security skills, CISA has become the certification
program preferred by individuals and organizations around the world.
CISA certification signifies commitment to serving an organization and
the IS audit, control and security industry with distinction.
In addition, it presents a number of professional and personal benefits.

Identification as a Consummate Professional
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Earning the CISA designation helps assure a positive reputation as a
qualified IS audit, control and/or security professional.
Whether you wish to enhance your on-the-job performance or secure a
promotion or new position, becoming a CISA will distinguish you from
other candidates and provide a competitive advantage.

Credentials That Employers Seek
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Because the CISA program certifies individuals who demonstrate
proficiency in today's most sought-after skills, employers prefer to
hire and retain those who achieve and maintain their designation.
The CISA designation assures employers that their staff have met the
current educational and experience criteria necessary for successful
on-the-job performance.

Worldwide Recognition
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Although certification may not be mandatory for you at this time,
a growing number of organizations are recommending employees become
certified. To help ensure success in the global marketplace, it is vital
to select a certification program based on universally accepted
technical practices. CISA delivers such a program. CISA is recognized
worldwide, by all industries, as the preferred designation for IS audit,
control and security professionals.

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This is the 3rd document of ACL's Executive Briefs on Business Assurance
(BA) issues. This publication is extracted from ACL website www.acl.com

========================================================================

Part 4 : DATA QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Are you making strategic decisions based on
poor quality and incomplete data?

========================================================================

Reliance on inconsistent, incorrect or incomplete data exposes
organizations to unacceptable business risk.
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Data quality is a critical component of business assurance. Poor quality
data jeopardizes the performance and efficiency of operational systems.
It also undermines the value of business intelligence systems on which
organizations rely to make key decisions. Decisions based on such data
can cause direct financial loss, mar customer relations, and damage an
organization's credibility in the market place. As more organizations
recognize data as a strategic asset, business leaders are increasingly
being held accountable for ensuring the accuracy, quality, and
reliability of information.

Poor data is bad for business
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Poor data hurts business operations in many ways. Errors may be made in
fulfilling customer orders, invoices sent to incorrect locations,
duplicate payments made to vendors, customer payments applied to wrong
accounts. The results are unhappy customers and vendors, frustrated and
inefficient employees, as well as controls that are compromised.

Organizations spend vast sums implementing business intelligence systems
designed to improve tactical and strategic decision-making. If the
underlying data coming from operational systems and data warehouses is
unreliable and of poor quality, then no matter how sound the business
intelligence technology itself, the decisions will be flawed.
In addition, if critical data components are simply not available within
the business intelligence system, a fundamental problem exists.

The causes of poor quality data.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Problems with data quality occur for a wide range of reasons, ranging
from user input errors through to basic system deficiencies.
The challenge of ensuring data quality becomes even more difficult given
the overwhelming volumes of data that systems within large organizations
collect and manage daily - data that is growing by as much as 100
percent per year, according to recent Gartner Group research.
However, there are specific circumstances in which the majority of
problems and greatest risks typically occur. These are primarily in the
areas of systems conversions, systems integration (often as a result of
mergers and acquisitions), and building data warehouses.

System conversions :

System conversions present a significant challenge to the effective
management of data quality. In many cases, data from legacy systems must
be converted, cleansed, restructured, and consolidated before it can be
loaded into new applications. All of the data should be reconciled and
tested to ensure the conversion will be successful and that high
quality, reliable data will populate the new system.
All too often, this does not happen. The pressures of completing system
conversions within a tight timetable and the sheer complexities of
dealing with massive amounts of data mean that new systems frequently
are implemented with inherent data problems from the outset.

Systems integration and mergers and acquisitions :

Bringing together data from multiple organizations and systems to
integrate on a single technology platform can be fraught with
difficulties. During a merger or acquisition, this may involve
consolidating multiple operational systems and data so business
intelligence applications can produce information for analytical and
reporting purposes. In either case, the fundamental issues are the same.
Data must be made consistent, reliable, and available for matching and
consolidation. All too often the costs and complexities are such that
the integration process is neither effective nor timely.

Data warehousing and business intelligence systems :

The data warehousing process takes data from disparate operational
systems, many of which reside on very different technology platforms,
and restructures it into repositories that feed business intelligence
systems. Technical challenges rise in direct relation to the volumes of
data and number and type of source systems involved, particularly in the
case of legacy systems that contain complex non-relational data.

The quality of data being extracted and transformed is critical.
Not only must the data be accurately converted and restructured,
any errors and inconsistencies must be identified and addressed so the
resulting data warehouse can feed valid information to business
intelligence systems. Just as effective data cleansing, conversion,
and validation is vital to the success of data warehousing, so too is
completeness of data. If the data warehouse does not contain all the
information required from operational systems, or does not contain data
at the level of granularity required for critical decision-making, the
value of business intelligence is compromised.

Meeting the challenges of data quality management.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Data quality is a critical component of business assurance. While many
technologies support various aspects of the "extract, transform, and
load" (ETL) process, very few support the end-to-end process, and fewer
still are designed specifically for the testing, validation, and
cleansing processes that assure data quality. Such technology must be
able to access and extract data from any source, including legacy and
non-relational data systems. It must provide an audit trail when testing
the data to ensure its integrity and identify all anomalies and
inconsistencies. It must convert, cleanse, restructure, and consolidate
the data as required. It must be capable of reconciling and validating
the data in its final repository, providing analyses and reports at both
a detailed and summary level. Finally, it must be extremely efficient,
to support timely, cost-effective processing of data.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Data Warehousing Institute estimates that poor quality customer data
cost US businesses more than $600 billion per year.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
In a data warehousing project involving more than 20 million customer
data records, a major power utility cut project time in half and
delivered at a fraction of the anticipated $1 million budget using ACL
in the "extract, transform, and load" (ETL) process.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
"There is nothing more treacherous - or alas, more common - than the
manager's attempt to make precise decisions on the basis of coarse
and incomplete information. When information is incomplete guesses have
to be made" (Peter Drucker)
------------------------------------------------------------------------

=========================================================================
ACL offers a series of white papers on specific Business Assurance
issues. They define the challenges, examine solutions, and provide
practical illustrations of the ways in which organizations have achieved
business assurance in particular areas.
For a copy of the ACL white paper on which this summary is based, please
contact us at info@....

© 2002 ACL Services Ltd.
=========================================================================

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Dear Professionals,

The following is a good article from www.smartpros.com

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How to Prevent the Loss of Important Financial Data

By: SmartPros Editorial Staff

HAMDEN, Conn., July 30, 2002 -- Since the September 11 attacks,
businesses are concentrating on avoiding the devastating loss of
financial and other personal data that could be lost due to security
gaps or physical disasters.

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Today, more than ever, companies want assurance that if a key facility
goes down, mission critical operations don't cease and the data vital to
supporting those operations doesn't disappear --- even for an instant.
Backing up data no longer is as simple as downloading your hard drive to
a floppy disk and dropping it in your desk. Remote, multiple,
simultaneous redundancy of data backup, systems recovery and,
occasionally, total business operations is now the focus of top
corporate information officers. Companies that rely on continuous
information access are developing plans and procedures to guarantee that
their mission critical operations remain unbroken in the face of
unexpected disruptions.

"Terrorism is not the only threat," said Sean Smith, Chairman & CEO of
Coalition America, an Atlanta-based healthcare cost containment and
claims processing company. "A breach in security, a loss of critical
client data, a hacker, undetected virus or a natural disaster that cuts
communications are all scenarios that put information-age organizations
at risk."

The September 11 attacks simply gave impetus to a process that had
already started to capture the attention of information-based
businesses. According to Smith, companies like his are examining five
key areas to ensure their business operations continue when faced with
either an intentional or inadvertent threat to their information systems:
Disaster & Contingency Planning - Understanding the potential impacts of
major disaster scenarios, and establishing the risks that could lead to
such scenarios, is the first step to ensuring the BCP or DP plan meets
the actual needs of the organization.

"We began our process with a meticulous review of our organization and
its operational vulnerabilities," Smith said. "This assessment included
not only day-to-day operations, but our data infrastructure and the
suppliers, vendors and partners vital to operations. Included were
detailed contingency plans that will guide our organization both
protecting individual privacy and in performing our critical functions
during a disruption or disaster."

Network and data security - No system is secure unless it addresses the
threat from its most trusted users. That is because the biggest risks
are on the inside where access is easiest. Further, security problems
typically result from people or process failures, so security must be
multi-layered and self-checking.

At one top information security operation, an individual encounters four
levels of physical security just to access its systems. First is a
security guard checkpoint requiring sign-in and photo identification.
Next comes a fingerprint scan followed by a key station requiring a PIN
number.  Finally, its data access area is monitored 24/7 by security
cameras.

Protecting from external threats is even more complex with the customary
firewalls, virus detection systems, and encryption technologies. Yet,
whatever technology can protect, technology can defeat. So, these
systems must be continually updated based on the latest advancements and
threats.

Data Recovery - If disaster does strike, the goal of recovery is to find
and fix the problem swiftly, then get operations back to normal
promptly. The key to successful recovery from any disaster is having a
reliable copy of your critical data backed up offsite.

If properly completed, the planning process has prepared all documents
and plans while identifying and securing any additional equipment and
supplies needed to mitigate the risks identified in the assessment.
Meanwhile, all personnel must be trained on their respective roles and
responsibilities.

Then go one step further. Conduct regular drills and exercises to ensure
the plans will work and provide a continual means to update the
information to adjust for organizational changes.

Alternate site operations - Sometimes disaster is inevitable in spite of
the best laid plans. Disasters such as hurricanes, fires, floods and
earthquakes are inevitable and often unavoidable. As a result, more
companies are creating off-site backup facilities that mirror their
primary operation centers. For example, in Florida, a place where
hurricanes visit, and California, home of the frequent earthquake,
companies often have full-blown, moth-balled operations centers well
away danger centers that can be open for business within hours. Key
employees can be moved there quickly and stay on the job until normalcy
returns.

Infrastructure Disruptions - The risk is not always company specific.
The nation's telecommunications infrastructure is an inviting target for
terrorists, hackers or other bad actors. Even if a business has done all
it can to protect its own system, it can still be crippled by a
disruption within the portals that carry its data traffic. As a result,
many companies are contracting with secondary and tertiary portal
providers in case their primary portals become inaccessible. Thus, if
one portal closes, they can shift their systems instantly to a new ISP.
Many companies have installed backup generators and other emergency
systems to ensure that their business operations can surmount any but
the most devastating disruption.

"Given the importance of information in today's global economy, extended
downtime due to terrorism, disasters, hackers and other disruptions is
something most enterprises cannot afford," said Smith. "As a result,
business continuity planning is the top strategic concern for many
companies in the post-9/11 environment."

© 2002 SmartPros Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

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Dear Professional,

Audittindo is currently opening an opportunity for professionals in
Indonesia to join our team. We are looking for a young talented fresh
graduate who eager to develop the professional skills and experiences in
audit technologies business as an :

AUDIT TECHNOLOGIES - JUNIOR CONSULTANT

He/she will be responsible to assist clients in transforming their audit
methodology from traditional audit methods to the technology driven
audit methods. He/she will working closely with various levels of
management from various type of industries. He/she will be assigned to
perform various types of task, including training, consulting and auditing.

We are expecting the candidate would have the following criteria:
- Bachelor degree in Accounting with minimum average GPA 3.00
- Good skills & knowledge in Auditing, especially in Information
    Technology Auditing and Audit Automation.
- Have experiences in using audit software i.e. ACL Software or other.
- Have experiences in a job attachment in auditing industry e.g. in
    internal audit unit or public accounting firms.
- Willing to work under pressure in meeting assignments deadline and to
    travel around Indonesia and overseas.
- Good interpersonal and presentation skills and able to work with
    various level of management.
- Advanced written and spoken English skill.

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========================================================================
CISA Worldwide Growth Continues
Asia Shows Greatest Percentage Increase
========================================================================

For the ninth consecutive year, registration for the CISA exam has
reached a new high. This year more than 11,300 candidates registered for
the exam in an effort to take an important step toward achieving the
CISA designation. Growth has been experienced in every geographical area
this year with the largest percentage (36 percent) growth coming from
Asia/Middle East.

Such continual growth demonstrates the interest and importance of this
global certification among IS auditors, accountants, security
practitioners and others holding roles in IT governance and assurance.
ISACA management and staff wish to thank the ISACA chapters, mentors,
members and CISAs worldwide for their efforts in supporting and
promoting the CISA designation.

There are many reasons and success stories that have contributed to this
huge and continuous growth pattern, most importantly the continued
maturation of information systems auditing as a profession. This is most
evident in Asia where information technology continues to increase at a
rapid pace. There is a growing need for qualified individuals to
evaluate the integrity and reliability of information in complex systems
faced with sophisticated intruders.

In addition, a growing number of information security practitioners and
consultants are seeking the CISA credential because of its worldwide
recognition and its acceptance as an information systems audit
credential, especially for its concentration on:

Management, planning and organization of information systems
Technical infrastructure and operational practices
Protection of information assets
Disaster recovery and business continuity
Business application system development, acquisition, implementation and
maintenance
Business process evaluation and risk management

Many employers also appreciate and reward professionals who achieve and
maintain CISA certification. As reported in previous Global Communiqué
articles, a growing number of enterprises and governmental entities
recognize the CISA credential because they realize CISAs are more likely
to be able to identify, evaluate and mitigate IT systems' vulnerabilities.

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Source : Global Communiqué - Volume 4 2002 - ISACA - ISACF
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This is 2nd document of ACL's Executive Briefs on Business Assurance
(BA) issues. This publication is extracted from ACL website www.acl.com

========================================================================

Part 3 : CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & RISK MANAGEMENT

Do the volumes and complexity of your data and transactions
expose your organization to unnecessary risk ?

========================================================================

Controls compliance and complete and trusted data are critical to
effective corporate governance and risk management
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Effective corporate governance and management of risk are more critical
than ever in the current business environment. New pressures on the
regulatory front and more vigilant capital market analysts and portfolio
managers are demanding that the style and substance of company dealings
be above reproach. To achieve effective corporate governance and manage
risk proactively, an organization has to know for certain that its
transactions comply with internal as well as regulatory controls.
Failure to identify non-compliant and risky transactions can expose an
organization to direct financial loss as well as diminished credibility
in the market. These transactions could indicate any number of risks,
including:

- Fraud
- Overpayments
- Systems security breaches
- Violations in regulatory reporting

While organizations generally commit considerable resources to ensuring
that controls reduce exposure to the most obvious risks, the rapidly
growing volume and complexity of transactions and control requirements
make this increasingly difficult. Audit procedures generally cannot be
expected to uncover every noncompliant transaction, either because the
audit is performed on sampled data or it is designed to identify
non-compliance only within specific controls. The difficulty compounds
in attempting to establish procedures that ensure compliance with
regulatory and reporting requirements, which can change suddenly in
response to new legislation. Failure here can mean fines, a tarnished
reputation, and even a forced shut down.

Conventional control methods and their inadequacies
----------------------------------------------------

Current preventative and detective control methods are usually based on
a combination of manual and automated procedures. Manual procedures
involve some degree of individual approval or review; therefore the risk
of human error increases with ever-growing volumes of data. Automated
procedures generally cannot be designed cost-effectively to prevent or
detect all possible risky transactions - particularly when external
regulatory compliance standards are changing in real time.

Internal and external audits, designed to test the effectiveness of
controls, are neither able nor expected to assure the accuracy and
appropriateness of every transaction. In either case, both take place
well after the transactions they review.

Complete data and continuous monitoring enable business assurance
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Any method capable of minimizing risk by providing certainty regarding
transactions' compliance will have three salient characteristics.

* It will provide direct access to large and growing volumes of data and
    transactions that underlie the organization's full range of
    operational systems, including legacy data systems.

* It will be able to ensure that all data and transactions, including
    warehoused data on which an organization's business intelligence
    applications depend, are validated, reconciled, cleaned, and
    consistent with complex sets of control parameters. This ensures that
    the information business intelligence develops and provides for
    decision-making is based on complete and trusted data.

* The method will be independent from the transaction processing
    systems. It will be able to monitor all transactions and do so
    continuously in a time frame that allows for early detection. It will
    provide prompt notification to management of control exceptions, with
    details, to enable quick response to any variances.

The basic tenets of control and accuracy are a given in the realms of
corporate governance and risk management. The challenge to organizations
is to provide confidence - business assurance - across the enterprise,
with a minimum of resources. To achieve "best practice" status among as
many business processes as possible, enabling technologies become key.

Flexible, robust technologies capable of continuous monitoring, running
seamlessly alongside operational application systems, can streamline the
process of checking controls, compliance and exception reporting. Tools
that quickly and economically ensure all relevant operational data is
accurately and completely incorporated in business intelligence systems
and underlying data warehouses provide an added level of business assurance.

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A Fortune 500 utility company saved more than $12 million in a single
year, using ACL to identify weaknesses in control procedures surrounding
its payments processing.

A government agency with an annual budget of $4 billion saved taxpayers
nearly $6 million through ACL's ability to highlight areas for
improvement within its inventory control management.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

=========================================================================
ACL offers a series of white papers on specific Business Assurance
issues. They define the challenges, examine solutions, and provide
practical illustrations of the ways in which organizations have achieved
business assurance in particular areas.
For a copy of the ACL white paper on which this summary is based, please
contact us at info@....

© 2002 ACL Services Ltd.
=========================================================================

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Dear Professionals,

The following are updates contained in the ACL for Windows in-line
release version 7.2.1.

All supported users can download the update from the ACL website at
www.acl.com

--------------------- June 2002 - Version 7.2.1 ----------------------

This release contains the following corrections and improvements to
ACL for Windows. All new features since version 7 are fully documented
in the on-line Help and PDF manuals that accompany this release:

     * The handling and recording of lengthy filters generated by Quick
       Filter has been improved.

     * The limitation on editing SELECT parameters created when defining
       DB2 files has been overcome with the addition of the variables
       DB2WHERE, DB2CONDITION and DB2ORDER, which can be used to amend
       any available DB2 Import statement.

     * The Insert Fields dialog box now displays all available project
       variables.

     * ACL Help has been updated for this maintenance release.

     * An issue has been resolved regarding the Relations dialog box and
       dragging input files beyond the edge of the visible work area.

     * Problems editing filters in an Input File Definition have been
       resolved.

     * The failure to automatically profile files with a default filter
       based on EBCDIC data has been fixed.

     * ACL for Windows now successfully verifies ASCII data in the
       extended ASCII character set.

     * The definition of print image data now generates a valid Import
       statement for all conditions that are set during record
       definition.

     * The length of a field referenced by a computed field can now be
       successfully increased.

     * The amount of memory that is reserved for sorting has been
       increased to improve the sorting of large data files.

     * Errors caused by the Delete command have been corrected.

     * For the RECOFFSET() function, calculations for static fields and
       the display of results have been improved.

     * ACL now successfully exports logical fields to Microsoft Excel.

     * During the import of a Microsoft Excel data file, ACL for Windows
       now notifies the user when an invalid data type is detected in a
       date field, and provides the user with the opportunity to correct
       the data source before continuing.

     * This release provides a correction for users who experienced
       problems with ACL Projects located on network drives.

     * This release improves the definition and display of fields in
       ACL for OS/390 server-based data.

     * Graphs created by Cross Tabulate no longer reset the default
       graph type to 3-D layered.

     * The Join command is improved in the area of automatic presorting
       of secondary files.

     * Improvements to the re-indexing process have been made.

     * A defect in the Print Documentation feature has been corrected.

     * Under Windows NT, the ACL Client/Server System once again
       resfreshes the view promptly when an indexing activity occurs.

     * The "REPORT TO PRINT" command can now be used in a batch when the
       "Include Report History with Reports" option is enabled in ACL
       Preferences.

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Dear Professionals,

As the Authorized ACL Value Added Reseller for Indonesia we would like
to inform you that ACL^(TM) for Windows Version 7.2.1 is now available for
download.

Supported ACL User that had activated their account can download the
in-line relase from the ACL website (www.acl.com) or just click the
following link and sign in with your account :

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Part 2
Business Assurance
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"Can you rely on the integrity of all your data and transactions?"

The foundation of business assurance rests in the ability to both see
and trust the integrity of your transactional data. Organizations depend
on data and transactions. Complete and trusted data is the cornerstone
for effective corporate governance and management of business and
financial risk - now more critical than ever in today's business
climate. Any weaknesses in processes designed to ensure business
transactions comply with controls leave companies exposed. It's
what isn't known - the areas of uncertainty and doubt - that keep senior
executives up at night.

In a similar vein, data and transactions form the heart of operational
systems for enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship
management (CRM), and supply chain management (SCM), among many others.
Business intelligence solutions draw on the data in these systems as the
raw materials used to generate the information and insights on which
management depends to make strategic and tactical decisions. The more
reliable the data and transactions, and the more complete the visibility
into them, the more confident decision
makers can be.

Can an organization place complete trust in the compliance, reliability,
and integrity of its transactional data? Can its business intelligence
systems answer any question that may arise about the data that underlie
the organization's whole operation?

In too many organizations, the answer is no. This lack of reliability
undermines confidence and increases risk. To gain critical insight and
knowledge, organizations need assurance about the accessibility and
integrity of all their transactional data.

"Costs and consequences of diminished data and transaction integrity"

Despite extensive control systems to ensure the integrity of
transactions, the sheer volume of data in operational and information
systems makes error inevitable. It is virtually impossible to ensure
that all transactions are legitimate, accurately recorded, and compliant
with established controls. This exposure gives rise to urgent questions
regarding risk management in a number of areas, including:

* Fraud that can result in significant loss of funds and assets.
* Failure to comply with internal or regulatory controls that can lead
    to direct financial loss or penalties - and jeopardize an
    organization's reputation and market confidence.
* Overpayments to suppliers that can represent millions of dollars.
* Inaccurate or unreliable data that can mar customer or supplier
    relationships.
* Inability to generate management reports that give a true and complete
    picture of the business

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Complete and trusted data is the cornerstone for effective corporate
governance and management of business and financial risk - now more
critical than ever in today's business climate.
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It's what isn't known - the areas of uncertainty and doubt - that
keep senior executives up at night.
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"Current approaches for managing data and transaction integrity"

Given the need to minimize risk and maximize profitability,
organizations use a number of approaches to manage data and transaction
integrity, including:

* Internal and external audit functions to test and confirm controls.
* Vendor audit/cost recovery functions to recover overpayments
* Data administration processes to maintain data quality

However, the sheer volume of transactions, when coupled with the growing
complexity of data platforms and information systems, challenges an
organization's ability to achieve total control over its data and
transactions.

Compounding these difficulties is the practice of restructuring and
consolidating data for the data warehouses or data marts that supply
business intelligence systems. All too often, warehousing fails to
include data from all systems, leaving pockets of transactions and
information out of the decision-making mix. At the same time,
warehousing frequently eliminates the transactional level of data,
making it impossible to drill down for the details and further
compromising data integrity. Finally, many business intelligence and
data mining tools have limited ability to provide fast answers to
detailed and complex queries about past events.

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Within the first nine months of implementing ACL, a Fortune 100
telecommunications company saved more than $15 million through analysis
of areas such as accounts payable, credit card usage, and expense
reimbursement.
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"ACL provides a fast, reliable method for enabling business assurance"

ACL provides business assurance that complements and completes business
intelligence. ACL's whole solution gives organizations access to all
their data and enables them to analyze, and independently validate data
and transactions for integrity, in a fraction of the time once required.
ACL's powerful analytics and robust capabilities have enabled tens of
thousands of organizations around the world to achieve fast payback,
reduce risk, assure compliance, minimize loss, and enhance
profitability, while making decisions with speed and confidence.
With ACL, organizations can trust their data and see results like never
before.

ACL is a proven performer, with clients in 176 countries, including 83
of the Fortune 100 and nearly half the Global 500. ACL clients also
include more than 500 national, state, and local governments on six
continents, and all the Big 5 accounting firms.

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issues. They define the challenges, examine solutions, and provide
practical illustrations of the ways in which organizations have achieved
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ACL for Windows Version 7.2 has been released on April 2002.
ACL Supported User can download the inline release update from ACL
website (www.acl.com)

What's New in Version 7.2

New Drag-and-drop Interface for Relations

The Relations command has a new look. Now you can edit data relations in
a graphical, drag-and-drop window, making it easier to create and manage
your data relations. As well, key fields are now automatically indexed
when relating files.

New Cross Tabulate Command

Cross Tabulate lets you analyze character fields by setting them in rows
and columns. By cross-tabulating character fields, you can produce
various summaries, show details on areas of interest, and accumulate
numeric fields. You can use Cross Tabulate to produce results in a file,
table, or graph.

New Many-to-many Option in the Join Command

The new Many-to-many option in the Join command creates an output file
of primary file records with key field matches from the secondary file.
This option differs from the Matched Primary Records option -- if there
is more than one key field match in the secondary file, ACL uses all
matched records it finds.

Optimized Memory Usage

ACL now optimizes its use of your computer's available RAM, which
results in improved performance. The Max RAM setting in ACL Preferences
is no longer required and has been removed.

Access to Mainframe Tape in the ACL Client/Server System

Using the ACL Client/Server System, you now have the abilityto directly
access mainframe data on tape.

Quick Record Sorting in the View Window

When you right-click a column in the View window, a new Quick Sort
option in the shortcut menu lets you sort the view by any column.

Filtering in a View with Quick Filter

With the new Quick Filter option on the shortcut menu, you can create or
add to a view filter based on selected fields in the view. Quick Filter
is faster than typing an equivalent filter expression or creating a
filter in the Expression Builder dialog box.

New RECOFFSET( ) Function

The new RECOFFSET( ) function returns a field value from another record.
You can use RECOFFSET( ) in a computed field to compare a value in one
record to a value in another record.

Rotation of 3-D Bar Graphs

You can now rotate 3-D bar graphs by clicking the Rotate Graph buttons
or by rolling the wheel button on a mouse. Previously, you could only
rotate pie charts.

More Options to Start and Exit the Data Definition Wizard

New options in the Data menu give you a head start when you define a new
data source. You can now choose the data source type and location before
starting the Wizard, which lets you skip the first steps of the Wizard.
Users who prefer to define flat files manually now have the option of
skipping certain steps of the Data Definition Wizard. This option
appears in the Input File Options tab in the Preferences dialog box.

Ability to Export Data from the View

The Export command now offers two ways to export your data: from
selected fields or from the view. The new View option exports the fields
in the current view in the order in which they are displayed. Depending
on the type of file to which you export, the view's alternate column
titles can be retained as well.

Color in the Command Log

The command log now uses color to improve readability. The first command
of a session is red, subsequent commands are blue, and command results
are black.

Listing of File and Folder Information in Command Log

When used in a batch, the Directory command provides the ability to
interact with the file system by retrieving information about the files
and folders stored on disk. From the command line, Directory operates
much like the DIR command in DOS.

Creation of Graphs from a Batch

Some batch commands have a new output option. For certain commands in a
batch, you can now use the Graph parameter to send the command output to
a graph, which you can then print or save to an image file. This
enhancement affects Age, Benford, Classify, Cross Tabulate, Histogram,
Print, and Save.

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ACL Press Release

ACL AND THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENT AUDITORS (NALGA) FORM
PARTNERSHIP

Vancouver, B.C. CANADA - May 10, 2002

In local government, the auditor's function is to oversee everything -
financial and operational reviews and economic analyses. They are
continually challenged to do more - with less resources than ever before.

ACL, the leading provider of data analysis technology solutions for
audit, and the National Association of Local Government Auditors
(NALGA), the professional organization dedicated to improving local
government auditing, today confirmed the formation of a new partnership.
This partnership is designed to further the use and benefit of data
analysis in the local government profession.

As a key partner with NALGA, ACL will sponsor NALGA. industry events,
and provide educational materials, audit plans, and automated analysis
routines for NALGA members.

"All NALGA members have the same customer: the tax paying citizen," says
J.C. Squires, NALGA President. "Our mission is to protect the public
trust. ACL's technology enables us to carry out our mission - in more
meaningful and valuable ways - making us more and more valuable to the
citizens."

About NALGA:
NALGA is a professional organization to improve local government
auditing. The organization disseminates information and ideas about
financial and performance auditing, provides training, and offers a
national forum to discuss auditing issues.

Established in 1989, NALGA has enjoyed a growing membership. There are
more than 500 members of NALGA, representing a wide diversity of audit
organizations. Some NALGA members represent one-person audit
organizations and others are part of organizations with 45
professionals. Some of auditors are independently elected and others are
appointed. Members audit cities, counties, and service districts, such
as schools, transportation, and water. NALGA provides information to
assist our members, whether they are audit managers or audit staff, in
conducting financial as well as performance audits.

About ACL Services Ltd.:
Founded in 1987, ACL Services Ltd. is the worldwide leader in data
analysis solutions for audit and business professionals. From its
offices in Vancouver, Brussels, and Singapore, ACL supports over 150,000
users in more than 100 countries. Clients include 82 of the Fortune 100
companies, governments and their agencies and all of the Big Five
international public accounting firms. ACL offers a truly integrated
solution, combining market-leading software with a global support
network and two divisions dedicated exclusively to training and
consulting, ACL Institute and ACL Consulting

For more information, contact:

Faye Furdyk
Market Communications & Industry Partners, ACL Services Ltd.
Phone: (604) 669-4225
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Value with Proven Audit Solutions" and "Proven Audit Solutions" are
trade marks of ACL Services Ltd. All other trademarks are the property
of their respective owners.

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This is the 1st part of the ACL's Executive Briefs on business assurance
issues. This publication is extracted from ACL website (www.acl.com)

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Part 1
Business Assurance through ACL - Introduction

What is business assurance? It's being able to see and trust the
integrity, accuracy and reliability of your data and transactions - and
to make business decisions with speed and confidence.

ACL provides organizations with a method for integrating business
assurance principles and practices through our software and services.
Our proven expertise in applying data analysis technology to business
processes enables you to reduce risk, assure compliance, ensure data
quality, detect fraud, minimize loss, enhance profitability, and, most
importantly, achieve fast payback.

Through a business assurance assessment, we can identify areas of
concern in your business, outline possible solutions, and determine
where ACL can add the most value.

The strengths of ACL software - simplified access to all your data and
transactions, robust analytics that confirm data integrity, accuracy,
and reliability at the transactional level, and integrated reporting -
enable you to leverage information to produce immediate results.

Coupled with professional services expertise including consulting,
training and custom development, ACL solutions are backed by extensive
support programs that maximize your productivity and return on your
investment.

Find out more about how and where business assurance and ACL can benefit
your organization.

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your organization. Read ACL's Executive Briefs on business assurance
issues. This publication extracted from ACL website (www.acl.com).
This publication will be brouht to you in following parts :

Part 1 : Introduction
ACL offers a series of executive briefs on specific business assurance
issues. They define the challenges, examine solutions, and introduce
ACL's capabilities for enabling business assurance.

Part 2 : Business Assurance
Why being able to rely on the integrity of all your data and
transactions is more crucial than you think.

Part 3 : Corporate Governance & Risk Management
Manage risk proactively with assurance of effective controls and
compliant transactions.

Part 4 : Data Quality Management
The real value of ensuring that your strategic decisions are based on
consistent, correct and complete data.

Part 5 : Internal Audit
How a comprehensive data analysis strategy can improve the quality and
effectiveness of your internal audit.

Part 6 : Fraud Detection
Detect fraud quickly and easily - and prevent future frauds.

Part 7 : Cost Recovery & Vendor Audit
Minimize loss and maximize profitability with a cost-effective cost
recovery program.

Part 8 : Mergers & Acquisitions
Reduce risk and maximize potential in mergers and acquisitions.

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Waving red flags
Recent corporate meltdowns are putting internal auditors in the
spotlight. Adam Lincoln asks whether the latest software is making their
lives any easier.
April 2002

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It's not surprising that Anton Bouwer, Brussels-based consulting manager
of ACL Europe, says the collapse of Enron has been good for business.
Starting as a small Canadian software house in the 1970s, ACL has become
the world's largest provider of software applications for corporate
auditing. Today, the company's products are used by internal and
external auditors alike, and handle everything from data analysis and
compliance monitoring to network security assessment and forensic
accounting.

Yet, as Bouwer notes, long before Enron and other less spectacular
corporate nosedives forced auditors into the spotlight, many of them
were already ramping up their use of state-of-the-art tools to help them
do their jobs. "Internal auditors are under pressure to play an even
greater role in strengthening internal control and governance by
providing their companies with wider, deeper data analysis on a regular
basis," Bouwer observes.

This, in turn, has dramatically changed the types of software auditors
reach for. "Auditors need to spend quality time on solving exceptions,
rather than finding them," says Bouwer, adding that this allows them to
go beyond routine policing and take on more value-adding
responsibilities, including risk management.

But are today's auditing tools meeting the taxing demands of their
users? Charles Le Grand, director of technology practices for the
Florida-based Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), an international
professional organisation, believes that they are. As evidence he cites
the results of the seventh annual software survey of nearly 600 internal
auditors worldwide, which was conducted last summer by Internal Auditor,
a magazine published by the IIA. It found respondents were generally
happy with the quality of the software tools that they have at their
disposal, particularly those designed specifically for auditing
professionals. These include software from ACL and CaseWare, another
Canadian company, as well as applications that have been developed in-house.

There are several reasons why auditors are giving technology the thumbs
up. First, the widespread use of the web has made a dramatic impact on
how auditors work. Thanks to web-based tools, auditors can now access,
read, analyse and manipulate data files drawn from all sorts of sources,
including legacy mainframe systems, and then present that information in
a user-friendly format for other parts of the organisation to digest.
Another piece of good news is that auditing tools are getting easier to
use. "Ten years ago, using audit software meant a lot of programming,"
says Ulrich Hahn, a member of the corporate audit team of Alcatel, the
French E25 billion telecoms-equipment supplier, which has installed
ACL's software across its entire global organisation. "Now, you just
point and click. The benefit of that cannot be underestimated."

Tech tools
But auditors' jobs are getting tougher in at least one respect--software
selection is a lot trickier than it once was. According to the IIA's
survey, companies often implement a combination of home-grown
applications and off-the-shelf packages, so that, for example, an
auditor might use one tool to extract data and another to present the
data over the corporate network. What's more, an auditor's toolbox also
now has lots of software that is found in other parts of a firm.
"Increasingly, auditors are using the same types of tools as IT
professionals," says Le Grand.

Indeed, arguably one of the most striking changes to take place within
internal auditing departments is the growing use of applications that
fall under the banner of business intelligence. Vendors specialising in
business intelligence that are pushing their offerings into the auditing
arena include Business Objects, SAS Institute, Coda, Hyperion, Crystal
Decisions, Cognos and Adaytum. All of these maintain that their products
complement those that internal auditors use. "Our products weren't
designed with audit specifically in mind, but the principles are the
same--getting the right data in front of the right people at the right
time," says Donald MacCormick, UK-based product manager of Crystal
Decisions (formerly Seagate Software), which provides web-based
enterprise-reporting products. "It would be a natural thing for an
internal auditor to write a report with Crystal and share it over the
web with external auditors."

Real-time audit
Some ERP vendors also see a place for their products in auditing
departments. As proof, Brian Gregory, a former internal auditor and now
a UK-based marketing director for Oracle's e-business unit, points to
Daily Business Close (DBC). Launched in February as a rebranded version
of Oracle's latest e-business suite, DBC lets auditors access
up-to-the-minute performance reports from various parts of a company.
"It supports the need for companies to monitor adherence to key
performance indicators on a regular and, increasingly, real-time, basis.
The term dashboard is overused but that's what it is," Gregory explains.
"It's not strictly an audit tool, but if you were an auditor, you would
derive comfort from its alerts to exceptions, and the ability to spot
trends promptly, and see action is being taken. Ultimately, auditors
want to feel good about the controls in place."

Despite the growing choice of tools, however, many companies cling to
the tried-and-tested. The IIA's survey found 21% of businesses continue
to rely on spreadsheet software to extract and analyse data. The comfort
factor seems to have much to do with this--along with costs, one of the
most frequent reasons given by respondents for hanging on to their old
spreadsheets was ease of use.

Unsurprisingly, auditing-software vendors contend that any auditor using
spreadsheets is missing a trick. "As with other office suite tools,
there's a tendency to think of spreadsheets as free," says Pamela
Eichhorst, marketing manager in Germany for Hyperion, which specialises
in business analysis software. As she sees it, companies often
underestimate the maintenance cost and training needed with
spreadsheets, while overestimating the quality of information found in
them. "They just keep rolling it out," she sighs.

And despite all the new offerings that the technology vendors keep
rolling out, IIA's survey found that home-grown solutions are
increasingly popular. The overall proportion of auditors developing
their own programs in-house has nearly doubled--to more than 25%--since
the previous survey was carried out in 2000.

But whatever the combination of home-grown and off-the-shelf tools,
auditors share plenty of concerns. According to the IIA, one of the
biggest challenges that auditors say they face is keeping up with the
technological advances throughout the rest of the organisation. As the
survey's authors note: "Remarks concerning the audit staff's ability to
'effectively audit the auditee's changing technology environment' were
far more common than those relating to software within the audit
department itself."

Another concern is cost. While ACL concedes the size and scope of
internal audit departments can vary enormously, it reckons that its
large corporate clients--that is, those with 100 or more auditors--invest
initially on average around $80,000 (E91,000) in audit technologies,
with $20,000 being spent annually for additional tools, consulting and
training.

How will those budgets be allocated in future? The IIA says that most of
the auditors they polled plan to increase their software usage over the
next three to five years. The area that will receive the most investment
is data extraction and analysis, followed by network security assessment.

That doesn't surprise IIA's Le Grand. "Auditors have been using software
for data analysis and other sorts of auditing for a long time," he says.
"But now we're finding that auditors are able to get much closer to the
source of a problem and move towards 'continuous auditing' using
real-time information." And this is just the beginning, he says. He
reckons demand for timely, accurate data is sure to escalate as other
parts of the company begin working in real time.

Oracle's Gregory agrees. As he puts it: "In previous decades, when
labour was cheaper, auditors would spend a long time sifting through
data. Companies just don't have that luxury anymore."

Adam Lincoln (adamdlincoln@...) is technology editor of CFO
Europe.


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TAKE COMMAND!
THE INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER FOR ACL USERS
FEBRUARY 2002
VOLUME 14 NUMBER 1
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Welcome to the electronic edition of Take Command! With this version of
the ACL newsletter, you receive all of the content from the print
edition in a format that offers Internet links to the latest Take
Command! articles. You can browse summaries of articles before clicking
a link to go directly to an article of your choice. From there, you can
click the menu to quickly access other articles in the current issue.
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IN THIS ISSUE:
	 * Using ACL to Track Terrorists
	 * Product News - V7.1 In-line Release
	 * Tech Tips - Relating a File to Itself
	 * Frequently Asked Questions
	 * Overcoming E-Business Obstacles with ACL
	 * Consulting Assessment Service
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Using ACL to Track Terrorists
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A report by Eric ChabrowGlobal terrorists will ultimately be captured by
the military or police, but they and their financial supporters may be
identified by investigators who audit computer records.
http://www.acl.com/takecommand/02_02/body_A01.asp
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Product News - V7.1 In-line Release
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The incremental increase may appear small - from 7.0 to 7.1 - but the
in-line release of ACL? for Windows Version 7.1 is nothing less than a
watershed release for ACL. The scope of product enhancements being
introduced in this in-line release is unprecedented.
http://www.acl.com/takecommand/02_02/body_A02.asp
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Tech Tips - Relating a File to Itself
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Did you know that with just a few steps in ACL, you can quickly and
easily ensure that the data across two records does not overlap -
without having to scroll through the whole file?
http://www.acl.com/takecommand/02_02/body_A03.asp
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Frequently Asked Questions
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FAQs include: Can ACL for OS/390 run under z/OS? How do I copy an IFD in
a batch and link it to a new data file? What are the requirements for
ACL for Windows Version 7.1? and more.
http://www.acl.com/takecommand/02_02/body_A04.asp
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Overcoming E-Business Obstacles with ACL
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Audit principles have always adapted to the dynamic nature of business.
In the past, when business goals and operations changed, audit
procedures quickly adapted, thus ensuring the profession's continued
feasibility. Today, with e-business organizations, audit procedures are
once again under pressure to adapt.
http://www.acl.com/takecommand/02_02/body_A05.asp
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Consulting Assessment Service
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Making sense of the data accumulated through e-business can be a
daunting task, even with the most versatile data analysis software at
your disposal. That's where ACL Consulting comes in.
http://www.acl.com/takecommand/02_02/body_A06.asp
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Yth. Rekan-rekan Anggota Milis Audittindo,

Kami dari PT Audittindo Arin Prima mengundang para professional di
Indonesia untuk mengikuti pelatihan teknik audit berbantuan komputer dan
audit sistem informasi yang kami selenggarakan di Jakarta, yaitu :

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Tel.+62 (21) 3517091
Fax.+62 (21) 3517092
audittindo@...

Salam,

Chandra Yulistia

Kepada para anggota milis Yth,

Berikut ini adalah informasi mengenai pelatihan persiapan ujian CISA
yang akan kami adakan. Jika anda berminat dapat menghubungi kami untuk
informasi lebih lanjut.

Salam,

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Chandra Yulistia

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LISACO Building 2nd Floor
Jl. Jati Baru Raya No. 28
Jakarta 10160, INDONESIA
Tel.+62 (21) 3517091
Fax.+62 (21) 3517092
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