Darkness favors secret dealings, or in other words: Let’s do Journal Entry Testing again!
If an auditor examines his or her accounting data, the keyword often turns out to be: Journal Entry Testing. In addition to the highest, most frequent and most problem-free amounts, one’s attention is most often drawn to: Weekend postings. Of course, you can also detect weekend postings immediately with zap Audit. But this is something […]
Why you should also audit yourself from time to time
For this reason, we now interrupt our usual “broadcast” to point out that you should probably also audit yourself from time to time. For one, the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) recently announced the top 10 most used German passwords at the end of last year, while, at the same time, the story currently in the […]
How can I explain what I do to my children?
Have you ever tried to explain to your children or your grandparents how you earn your money as an auditor and what you do at work all day? To make sure you are well prepared for the holiday period, here is an easy-to-follow guide to providing such explanations. If you start by trying to enter […]
New Work in auditing! Is there even any such thing?
“New Work” is not the next term to be picked out for the forthcoming Buzzword Bingo but actually deals with the question of how to work efficiently and innovatively in a digitized world. The majority of Germans tend to react with suspicion, or even take a defensive stance, when it comes to changing work processes […]
What’s what? – A short tour through the world of SAP
You can sometimes overhear some interesting things being said in the corridors at conferences and the terms SAP S/4, SAP HANA and SAP C/4 are often used synonymously. In this article, I will explain not only that there are indeed technological differences between SAP products but also that some of them are actually built on […]
If anyone’s auditing here, then it’s me!
… said the Chief Audit Executive to the QA Auditor who had just appeared in his doorway and announced that he is about to conduct an audit of the internal audit function. Saddle up your horses, Dear Members of the Auditing Community, and prepare to go to war against all those scoundrels who dare try […]
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: 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 […]