Inside zapliance: We are moving!

Once again it is time and we are moving for the second time within 3 years. The team continues to grow and more space is needed for creative and productive work. I don’t want to write much more at this point, but simply share some impressions of the move. Have fun! From now on you […]

Account movements on the SAP test bench

Account movements, cash flow, debit, credit, credit or debit, you name it. Let’s take a look today at exactly what somehow connects them all: Movements on accounts. To do this, we will first take a look at all the accounts, select three interesting examples and take a closer look at them in a time series. […]

Journal Entry Testing: The Best Queries about Money in SAP

In German, there is a saying that everybody is going to be familiar with when the holiday season comes to an end, and it goes something like this: When the money runs out, there is still so much of the month left to go [„Am Ende des Geldes ist noch so viel Monat übrig”]. What […]

A look at audit analytics with a lack of belonging in SAP?

What about audit analytics that cannot be assigned to any process, such as purchase-to-pay or order-to-cash, and are therefore often forgotten? We have developed a particular category for this, which is called “cross-process”. This blog article revolves around exactly these analyses. What audit questions are behind it, what does the GoBD have to do with […]

The Ultimate Guide to Auditing Order-to-cash in SAP

In our experience, the focus of an audit of business processes in SAP is often on purchase-to-pay, followed by authorizations. I don’t want to speculate about the reasons for this at this point. The aim of this article is instead to cover absolutely everything this is to know about the basics of auditing order-to-cash in […]

Audit in science: Artificial Intelligence and RPA in auditing

It’s been a long time since I first played the game “Summer Games” on the C64. Admittedly, even then, the C64 was already getting on a bit, but the relatively uncoordinated alternating hammering on the two red buttons of the joystick is something that has remained in my memory to this day. All you wanted […]

zap News on the tax front

The time has come around again for us to tell you a bit more about the extended functionality of zap Audit. With the new release, zap Audit 2.1, 26 new data indicators (audit questions) have been published. These include some new indicators on the subject of VAT, which I will present below. Taxes, a never-ending […]

The Top 5 challenges facing Process Mining projects

Last week, we sketched the outlines of a process mining project. Of course, we simplified the process somewhat, and, as I’m sure you know, not all that glitters is gold. For this reason, we will show what things you need to take into consideration if you are planning a Process Mining project in the near […]

Process Mining – Searching for the Holy Grail?

To be honest with you, Process Mining is really yesterday’s news. The first approaches by Cook and Wolf can already be found in the literature from as far back as 1998. Though they did not have anything to say about process visualization, they laid the foundations for this technology. The following two blog articles are […]