PROTIVITI AUDIT COMMAND LANGUAGE (ACL) TRAINING
BEGINNER COURSE
Objectives
Course Outline
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Define Computer Data Acquisition and Analysis (CDAA) and explain value proposition
Identify opportunities for performing CDAA
Plan for using CDAA techniques
Understand basic terminology associated with the CDAA process
Provide hands on practice with ACL to perform a variety of commands and analyze data
The course is approximately 15 hours in length and conducted over 2 days. It is constructed around
a series of instructor-led “tours” in ACL, each of which is followed by a participant activity. The
course culminates in a comprehensive case study activity during which participants have an
opportunity to practice all skills delivered during the course. The course outline is as follows:
Day 1:
• CDAA overview and examples of data analysis
• The Data Analysis Process:
o Planning and Data Request
o Data Acquisition and Data Load
o Validation and Profiling
• Basics of ACL
• Hands On Learning of ACL Commands
Day 2:
• Hands On Learning of ACL Commands (continued)
• Data Conversion from Excel and Access
• Comprehensive ACL Case Study
• Critical Documentation and Best Practices
• Questions and Wrap Up
Impact
Accreditation
Upon completion of the course participants will have learned and practiced the following ACL skills:
• Data definition, validation, and profiling
• Local and global filters
• Classify and Summarize commands
• Computed fields and Conditional Computed fields
• Stratification of numeric fields
• ACL reports
• Sequence Validation, Duplicates and Gaps
• Extract and Export commands
• Sampling – Monetary Unit and Random
• Dates and Aging
• Joins
This course has been developed by Protiviti. A total of 19.5 CPE credits will be granted to each
participant upon completion of this course.
Protiviti is a leading provider of independent risk consulting and internal audit services. The company provides
consulting and advisory services to help clients identify, assess, measure and manage financial, operational and
technology-related risks encountered in their industries, and assists in the implementation of the processes and
controls to enable their continued monitoring. Protiviti also offers a full spectrum of internal audit services to
assist management and directors with their internal audit functions, including full outsourcing, co-sourcing,
technology and tool implementation, and quality assessment and readiness reviews.
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