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Efficient Audit Documentation Tool for Business Processes

Discover how our tool revolutionizes audit documentation with standardized formats, efficient editing, and interrelated processes. Enhance rigor and clarity while saving time!

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Efficient Audit Documentation Tool for Business Processes

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  1. The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.- Andrew S. Tannenbaum Internal AuditBusiness Process Documentation Tool Symposium on Information Systems Assurance October 22, 2005 Tom Crouch IT Audit Manager tom.crouch@sunlife.com

  2. About Sun Life • Financial Services company offering wealth management, insurance and protection products • Head Office – Toronto • Offices in Canada, US, UK, Asia • Market cap, year-end 2004 of $23.8 billion CDN • 2004 Revenue - $21.75 billion CDN • Serve approximately 7 million Canadians Symposium on Information Systems Assurance, October 20-22, 2005

  3. Brief History of the Tool • Audit documentation consisted of Narratives and Data Flow Diagrams • Not collected in one spot • No ability to correlate • Depended on drawing ability of Auditor • Too much time making it “pretty” • Difficult to edit • Large chunks of process easily missed • Too easy to make assumptions Symposium on Information Systems Assurance, October 20-22, 2005

  4. The Vision • To create a tool that would facilitate the capture of process documentation that would • provide a level of consistency and rigor • do so in an Auditor friendly manner (efficient / easy) • be easily understood by clients • allow processes to be interrelated • allow analysis and rollup of data • allow drill down exploration of processes • combine business and IT documentation • be easy to maintain Symposium on Information Systems Assurance, October 20-22, 2005

  5. Our “solution” • “Audit Universe” • Developed in-house over period of years (beginning 1998) • Written in Clarion 6.2 Enterprise Edition • Rapid Application Integrated Development Environment (http://www.softvelocity.com ) • Multi-user, MS Windows, LAN based • Proprietary database structure (encrypted) • Conversion to SQL possible and ‘relatively’ painless Symposium on Information Systems Assurance, October 20-22, 2005

  6. The ‘model’ – Interaction Diagram • Based on Object Oriented principles • Combines Narrative and Data Flow in one diagram • No artistic talent required • Standardized format, automatically drawn • Connect-the-dots • minimizes missed, forgotten or not well understood pieces • Client friendly – “I get it!” • We have had several requests to provide documentation to projects that are doing business process reengineering. Symposium on Information Systems Assurance, October 20-22, 2005

  7. The basic look (Illustrative example) Symposium on Information Systems Assurance, October 20-22, 2005

  8. Sample output(Illustrative example) Symposium on Information Systems Assurance, October 20-22, 2005

  9. Demo • Let’s take a look Symposium on Information Systems Assurance, October 20-22, 2005

  10. Other capabilities (Illustrative example) • ‘House’ view – hierarchical view of Business Unit Symposium on Information Systems Assurance, October 20-22, 2005

  11. Tree View – all levels in same view (Illustrative Example) Symposium on Information Systems Assurance, October 20-22, 2005

  12. Security Symposium on Information Systems Assurance, October 20-22, 2005

  13. Summary • More efficient & accurate documentation • Physical view of process • Creates a universe of documentation that is • Relational • Sharable • Searchable • Clear and understood Symposium on Information Systems Assurance, October 20-22, 2005

  14. Symposium on Information Systems Assurance, October 20-22, 2005

  15. Thank you for your attention! tom.crouch@sunlife.com Symposium on Information Systems Assurance, October 20-22, 2005

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