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ACUA AND ACL
A Strategic Partnership
ACUA is pleased to continue its strategic partnership with ACL Services Ltd. In recognition of ACL’s status as an industry leader, this alliance is designed to provide ACUA members with greater access to tools, techniques and training associated with the use of data analysis in the audit function. By creating closer ties with each other, ACUA and ACL will mutually benefit from a transfer of knowledge and ideas.
What’s in it for me? Here are a few of the benefits to ACUA members:
- Development of an ACL training course designed specifically around higher education issues
- Preferred pricing on ACUA sponsored ACL certified training
- Joint research projects focusing on developing data analysis solutions for emerging challenges in higher education. Including:
- How to access data from higher ed specific systems/applications
- Utilizing ACL to resolve grant compliance and other regulatory issues
- NCAA compliance monitoring/auditing with ACL
- Student/faculty searches and filtering for conflicts of interest, non-resident alien or other monitoring issues
- Improving corporate governance through transparency in reporting or Enterprise Risk Assessment
- Automated approaches to continuous monitoring, embedded audit modules or continual assurance
- Data analysis tips and techniques direct from ACL to be published in the College and University Auditor
- ACL moderated user group designed to stimulate the sharing of valuable information between members such as:
- Audit plans with embedded data analysis procedures
- Tips for accessing data from university systems
- Batches and other ACL project elements
- A unified message and direct conduit to the ACL development team for product enhancement suggestions
Ok, what’s the catch? What’s in it for ACL?
In a word, knowledge.
"Covey’s 5th habit is ‘Seek first to understand, then to be understood.’ At ACL, we need to deepen our understanding of our client’s specific industry challenges before we can hope to serve them more effectively. Our partnership with ACUA is critical to our achieving that understanding."
Doug Burton,
ACL Services Ltd.
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