Author Archives: Brian Lewis

Your AP Data is Telling You Something: Five Analytics to Identify Duplicate Payments and Other Irregularities

Patterns exist in your accounts payable data that can indicate overpayments, duplicate payments, or other errors. This webinar will teach you five easy analytics that you can perform using Excel to identify some of these patterns.

Your Competitor’s Spyglass: Data Risks During a Divestiture

Data protection and security protocols have become more robust in the last two decades. This has been driven both by increasing incidents of data breaches – statutorily acts such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Gramm-Leach- Bliley Act, Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITEVH) Act, Health Insurance Portability and […]

Ace your Audit: Preparing Your Oracle® E-Business Suite for a Financial Audit Webinar

Automation continues to transform whole industries – and finance and audit are no exception. Specific to the financial audit, most of the high-volume, routine, non-judgmental activities in real time are being transformed by software, leaving audit professionals more time to do what they do best: analyze results and make expert judgement calls. This webinar focuses on the framework and standards under which audits are currently conducted, and will showcase real-world examples where automation streamlines workflows to transform the entire audit process.

Tips to Ace your Audit

There are ways to leverage Oracle® E-Business Suite to run industry standard audit procedures and proactively identify areas of non-compliance in advance for a smoother audit process. Here are our recommended tips to Ace Your Audit: Know Why Automation is Important: Know how audit automation can facilitate current and future audit frameworks and standards and […]

5 Key Audit Procedures for Rock Solid Trial Balances

Automation continues to transform whole industries – and finance and audit are no exception. Specific to the financial audit, most of the high-volume, routine, non-judgmental activities in real time are being transformed by software, leaving audit professionals more time to do what they do best: analyze results and make expert judgement calls. This webinar focuses on the framework and standards under which audits are currently conducted, and will showcase real-world examples where automation streamlines workflows to transform the entire audit process.

Understanding Your Audit

For most companies, annual financial statement audits are an unavoidable part of business and remain the gold standard of assurance to stakeholders. These annual audits can be quite burdensome for the accounting team.  In addition to daily business demands—the accounting team generally needs to prepare and pull schedules, load extracts, and provide supporting documentation. Due […]

Basics of Accounting— Part II: Closing the Books

This is the second in a series of articles designed to help the more technical people understand the business. They are intended as general reference material. A copy of the first article, Basics of Accounting: General Ledger and Account Types, can be found here. Books or ledgers are used to record the transactions. Closing the books is […]

Basics of Accounting— Part I: General Ledger & Account Types

This is the first in a series of articles designed to help the more technical people understand the business. They are intended as general reference material. A copy of the second article, Basics of Accounting: Closing the Books, can be found here. The general ledger (GL) is the repository and reporting vehicle for all financial subledger transactions. Subledgers include the Oracle® Applications […]

Eight Guidelines for Successfully Creating a Financial Statement Generator (FSG) Report

Financial Statement Generators (FSG) are powerful tools that can be used to produce a variety of traditional reports such as balance sheets, profit and loss statements, income statements, expense analyses and gross margin reports. Here are eight guidelines will help you get started with making a useful report. Make a Master Row Set – Create […]

I’m Paying HOW Much? Taking Advantage of Inventory Item Cost Savings Opportunities in Oracle EBS

Automation continues to transform whole industries – and finance and audit are no exception. Specific to the financial audit, most of the high-volume, routine, non-judgmental activities in real time are being transformed by software, leaving audit professionals more time to do what they do best: analyze results and make expert judgement calls. This webinar focuses on the framework and standards under which audits are currently conducted, and will showcase real-world examples where automation streamlines workflows to transform the entire audit process.