I think my transfer price may be attracting attention: When the taxman rings thrice
Transfer pricing is a sensitive issue. Especially when it comes to the tax authorities. Transfer prices often serve as “marshalling yards” for shunting profits around between Group companies. After all, which company would not rather report a high profit in a low-tax country than in a high-tax country (such as Germany)? In this blog post, […]
Lost in Space: Finding Missing Documents in the Optical Archive
In one of our recent blog articles, we briefly presented three indicators from which our readers could choose the most interesting and exciting indicator that they would like us to look at in more detail in the future. Thank you very much for your active participation and, as promised, we will now present item No. […]
Innovation in the company: What could go wrong?
In many large companies, corporate start-ups are founded in order to achieve innovative agility and try out new ideas in an “unencumbered” environment in order to bring them to market maturity. There are however various potential traps that can lie in wait here. In this post, we will tell you which traps your audit team […]
Innovation in the company: How can auditing contribute?
Every company wants innovations. It is now becoming increasingly important how innovations or an innovation process can be institutionalized, even within large organizations. Agility and mature processes can quickly turn out to be in contradiction to each other however. The art is to combine both through synergy. This is what corporate start-ups – often referred […]
Open innovation in auditing – is there any such thing?
The auditing industry and even external auditors themselves are usually considered to be a pretty conservative bunch, endowed with a critical and questioning attitude. An industry where innovations are often sought in vain. But, at zapliance, it’s different, of course, because we’re committed to the digitization of the audit process. In today’s blog post, we […]
The big costs test: Do you have unallocated costs in SAP?
In this blog post, we look at the basic relationships between external and internal accounting in SAP, and, more precisely: between expenses in external accounting and their allocation to elements in cost accounting, such as cost centers or cost objects. A simple analysis consists of looking to see whether there are expenses in accounting that […]
Who’s been fiddling around with my SAP system? – this is how you can tell!
For SAP to work the way you need it to in your company, you have to adjust the system extensively to the individual requirements of your organization – this is also known as “customizing”. If the customizing is changed, the way your SAP system behaves is also changed. Therefore, you should always be able to […]
3-Way-Match Part 2: Cheap to order, but expensive to buy – When can something like that happen?
In this blog post, we are going to take another look at the 3-Way Match. This time it’s about an order being placed at the beginning of a purchase process and there of course being an invoice at the other end. Things start to get interesting when the amounts on the order suddenly turn out […]
3-Way Match Part 1: Delivered as ordered? – Here’s how to find out!
Our topic today looks at a “classic” in the area of internal controls in purchasing: the 3-Way Match. The 3-Way Match as a control assumes that order quantities, incoming goods quantities and quantities invoiced by the supplier must correspond. As usual, we want to take a data-oriented approach. So I’ll be showing you how you […]
The madness of exchange rate fraud in SAP
“Two things can drive a person mad: jealousy and the study of exchange rates.” Frank Pöpsel, German journalist (“Capital”) (Translated from the German) SAP remains very true to the spirit of Frank Pöpsel’s words by surprising us with a particular scenario relating to exchange rates that we would like to present to you here today. […]