MIS 5208 – Prof. Johnson – Data Analytics for IT Auditors
Week 7 – ACL Exercise
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Exercise Objective: Gain hands-on experience with ACL and become familiar with the interface
and commands, practicing various drill-down and filtering techniques to generate insight into
data.
Refer to the “ACL Command Reference” sheet to determine the best method of retrieving the
answer(s) to the questions below.
Question(s)
1.) What is the total # of
transactions in the data set?
2.) What is the total $ amount of
all transactions in the data set?
3.) What are the highest and
lowest transaction $ amounts?
4.) What is the total # of
transactions with an amount
greater than $800?
5.) How many transactions
occurred on 4/18/2003 and
what is the total $ amount of
these transactions?
6.) On which date did the most
transactions occur? How many
transactions were there and
what was the total $ amount?
7.) Which description has the most
total $ been paid to? What is
the amount?
8.) What is the average
transaction $ amount for all
descriptions? How many
descriptions are above this
average?
9.) What percentage of
transactions are within the
$600.00-$699.99 range?
10.) How much money was spent
on “Accounting Auditing and
Bookkeeping Services” on
4/4/2003? How about
“Bakeries”? Hint: Use a crosstabulation.
Command(s) Used:
Answer(s):