Another concern raised at the SuperUser round-table (4/17/08) applied to the “value proposition”. During the conversation, we recognized that the most difficult hurdle to reach when using audit analytics for testing or risk management was in getting the data from its I.T. home and preparing it for use in ACL. This process is time-consuming and can be very costly. Therefore we raised the following questions:

• How do we articulate the value of spending resources gathering data to perform audit analytics?
• Which individuals in our organizations do we need to get “buy-in”?
• How do we manage the change in our audit culture to adapt to audit analytics and make it a part of our daily processes?

Feel free to comment on this posting if you have some suggestions on how best to articulate the audit analytics value proposition.