As presented by Tom Valiquette from CHS

1. ACL Starter Pack
Overview
Presented by:
Tom Valiquette, MBA, CIA
February 7, 2011

2. Presentation Agenda:
•Introduction to Carolinas HealthCare System
•Where can I find the Starter Pack
•What is the ACL Starter Pack
•How do I use the Starter Pack
•Questions

3. Introduction to Carolinas
HealthCare System
•Owns, leases or manages 32 hospitals in North &
South Carolina, more than 600 physician practices,
and other healthcare business units.
•Employs more than 45,000 full-time or part-time
employees (including physicians)

4. Introduction to Carolinas
HealthCare System, cont.
•Audit shop made up of 25 management & staff
employees (Information Technology, Construction,
Clinical Research, Financial, and Operations)
•All staff required to use ACL in audit work
•Currently implementing Audit Exchange (r3)

5. Where can I find the ACL Starter Pack?
http://www.acl.com/supportcenter/downloads/other.aspx

6. Where can I find the ACL Starter Pack?

7. Where can I find the ACL Starter Pack?

8. What is the ACL Starter Pack?
•Group of rudimentary
scripts
•“Designed to help you
investigate large data
sets to more quickly
identify fraud, errors,
risk, and inefficiencies.”

9. What is the ACL Starter Pack? cont.
• “The analytics address key areas such as
(but not limited to) accounts receivable,
accounts payable, vendor payments,
general ledger, payroll, corporate credit
cards, and travel and entertainment
expenses.”
• “Each analytic produces one or more
output tables that contain the exceptions
found.”

10. What is the ACL Starter Pack? cont.

11. What is the ACL Starter Pack? cont.

12. What is the ACL Starter Pack? cont.
The objective of this analytic is to ensure that
transactions are authorized and valid by
identifying split transactions that are intended to
circumvent corporate authorization limits.
A split transaction is when multiple transactions
are made in order to stay within the individual’s
single purchase authorization limit. Individual
transactions may appear to be authorized and
valid. It is only when these transactions are
linked that circumvention becomes evident.
Depending on the user input, this analytic can
be used to detect split invoices, split purchase
orders, split requisitions, or split corporate card
transactions.
Output Table(s):
C01_Split_Trans

13. How do I use the ACL Starter Pack
• Right-click → Run
• Study script development
• Dialogue box use – create interactive
scripts
• Rough cut data for initial analysis

14. How do I use the ACL Starter Pack
Demonstration
– C01_Split_Transactions
• Identify multiple records that have a common
vendor or merchant ID where the relevant date
values are equal or one day apart.
– C05_Fuzzy_Name_Matching
• This script is used to look for similar sounding
name matches within a master file and return
related transactions. SOUNDSLIKE algorithm based on NY State
NYSIIS Code. See http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/nysiis.html for details of
the method.

15. How do I use the ACL Starter Pack
Script Description
Standard Commands
Set up results table name
Command to run secondary script
Format ACL Project Navigator view

16. QUESTIONS?