Presented by:Tom Valiquette, MBA, CIA

February 7, 2011

ACL Starter Pack

Overview

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

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)

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)

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

Where can I find the ACL Starter Pack?

Where can I find the ACL Starter Pack?

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.”

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.”

What is the ACL Starter Pack? cont.

What is the ACL Starter Pack? cont.

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

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

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.

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

QUESTIONS?