- Activation of any number of fiscal years
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- Small company codes only
Dr. Wolfgang Burr, Head of Group Audit
With the help of zap Audit, our specialist auditors were able to start using SAP's 150 audit questions right away.
zap Audit is very simple to use and auditors don't need to have any specific know-how about the SAP data model or programming skills.
This means it is very readily adopted by both specialist auditors and those being audited themselves.
Get a first feel for your zap Audit project and analyze statistics around the data set.
A clear and uncomplicated representation of the critical processes in every data set.
Document findings directly in the software, or tag individual indicators / profiles / documents for later processing.
Export analysis results to Excel for further analyses and evaluations.
Perhaps there is a suspicion of fraud and you only want to see findings in relation to a certain context? No problem with the variable filter function.
Easily put questionable postings into context and identify conspicuous postings in no time at all.
Manage and work on various projects at the same time or work together with colleagues.
Easy switch between German and English in the software.
zap Audit does not work on the SAP production system, but on a copy of the relevant data outside SAP. The required data is extracted from your SAP system into a separate zap Audit database. You do not need to carry out any installations in the SAP system for the data download. The operation of your SAP system is thus neither affected by the data download nor by SAP updates.
To get started, you need:
It doesn't get any less technically complex!
Within zap Audit, data analyses are organized in projects. The subject of a project is always a fiscal year for one legal entity (company code).
zap Audit then downloads the data exactly for the defined company code and fiscal year and pseudonymizes all personal data fully automatically before the data is written to zap Audit's own database. This is on your own hardware and we have no access to your data at any time.
Before zap Audit starts checking business transactions, the Financial Process Mining algorithm first reconstructs all processes that led to a posting in accounting. This fully automated audit procedure by zap Audit reflects the conventional audit approach, in which the process is first collected and then the actual audit is started.
Our Financial Process Mining Algorithm has been researched at the University of Hamburg and developed to perfection since 2012. Unlike many other process mining methods, our algorithm works fully automatically and completely reconstructs all processes that have led to a posting in accounting.
However, not only are all your accounting documents taken into account in Process Mining, but also the following business transactions outside accounting:
In this step of the audit procedure, all process sequences are automatically reconstructed "end-to-end".
The sequence is the informational basis for a modern, risk-oriented process audit and thus an essential component for the digitization of the review.
After our Financial Process Mining algorithm has reconstructed the processes, the automated verification of all processes and documents by our indicators begins.
Indicators represent relevant auditing questions that we have concretized to such an extent, despite a high level of abstraction, that data auditing works in every SAP system worldwide.
Each indicator has exactly one audit objective and is assigned to a process and a process area and thus corresponds to the proven, process-oriented audit system.
Examples of the versatile indicators for checking purchasing processes, sales processes, asset accounting, financial accounting and access authorizations include:
With zap Audit, the indications found are not juxtaposed incoherently, but are placed in a process-related context by the sequence. This identifies whether several indicators occur simultaneously in a process. False positives are also effectively reduced by exactly this correlation.
It is precisely this aspect that characterizes our audit methodology: thanks to several combined indicators, the most critical variants, documents, suppliers and customers can be identified quickly.
After the algorithms have done their work, the most exciting part of zap Audit begins - Professional Judgement.
Our indicators are designed to work on any SAP system in the world. The assessment of the indicator results (indications / findings) in the overall context of the audited company / unit is now the responsibility of the experienced auditor.
In this respect, zap Audit in no way supposes replacing the auditor by the machine!
The up-to-date data analysis guides the auditor through the essential findings, enriches them with the necessary information and enables the audit opinion to be finalized and documented in a user-friendly interface.
What does this mean in concrete terms?
In the first step of Professional Judgement, the auditor should familiarize himself with the data set and the automated results. The zap Audit Dashboard provides various graphics for this purpose:
In the following, the audit with indicators starts.
The zap Audit audit methodology in Professional Judgement helps the auditor to become more of a professionally experienced moderator in the audit process and relieves him of having to perform extensive task of data analysis!
This leaves more time for auditing!
The zap Audit audit results are divided as follows:
Both results are prepared by zap Audit in the form of Excel exports and are available to you for further processing in your audit process.
In addition to the SAP Java Connector (SAP JCo), an SAP user with read access rights is required to access the SAP database.
In our FAQ section we have summarized a separate article on all details of the SAP user:
Specification of the SAP userThe SAP user can usually be requested from the SAP Administrator or, if available, from your company's SAP User Management.
The SAP Java Connector (SAP JCo) is required for zap Audit's communication with the SAP server. For legal reasons we are not allowed to deliver it.
The Connector is available for all SAP customers to download free of charge from the SAP Marketplace. If you have further questions about the download, please contact your SAP administrator.
You can find more information about the download of the Java Connector in our Knowledge Base.
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