RAS Finder Audit

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RAS Finder Audit

Typically because this involves the review of high volumes of information, most organisations perform annual audits to prove overall performance or tax compliance, rather than prove the integrity of the business processes that govern such performance or compliance. Unfortunately, it is often too late to do anything about the errors such audits identify. RAS Finder Audit provides an organisation with the ability to audit the integrity of a departmental or enterprise operation. This provides the means for the early identification of the operational, procedural, human or computer errors that would otherwise go unnoticed if left to annual performance or compliance audits. The early identification of such issues enables the organisation to take action to address the issues identified, often enabling to completely avoid or mitigate the consequences.

What it is and Does

RAS Finder Audit is the base solution against which all other RAS solutions are developed. It is the initial investigation designed to identify issues through a detailed analysis of the data held and used by a department and/or enterprise.

Working closely with the business users, RAS consultants develop a detailed understanding of the business operations concerned. This is translated into a set of criteria used to measure how well the data "maps" to the processes described.

Unlike other audits, RAS Finder Audit uses automated technology offering four key benefits:

Speed - The technology used enables entire business operations to be audited in hours, not days, weeks or months.

Flexibility - Once developed, audits can be tuned to reflect different emphasis and, combined with speed, enable a complete re-audit when ever required. This enables organisations to continually improve their audits to counter the ever evolving threats from fraud etc.

Repeatability - All RAS Audits are designed to be repeatable, providing organisations with the ability to monitor the integrity of their operations on an ongoing basis at any frequency, including daily where required.

Tangible Output - RAS Audits provide accurate and unambiguous output, proving where individual records pass or fail the audit criteria.

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Critical to the success of any audit is the amount of data reviewed. If you do not audit all the data, you are forced to make assumptions about the data that was not audited.

All RAS Audits are based on a review of 100% of the data held and used by a department or organisation. A RAS Audit will test every individual field of every individual record, and where necessary, compare records from one system to records in other systems, to measure their compliance with the business model concerned.

Duration
RAS Finder Audits can involve multiple agencies, departments, systems and data sets, but the typical length of engagement is between 15 and 30 man-days over an elapsed period of 20 to 60 working days.

Output

The output of a RAS Finder Audit is a report that specifies specific records that based on the data held fail to meet the profile of the audit. The level of detail provided in the report is sufficient to identify a single field of a single record, irrespective of the amount of data held. The secondary output from the RAS Finder Audit is the development of the audit profile scripts required for the automated repeat of the audit to enable the monitoring of improvements and future.