Webclass 122: How can I check that my AR data is correct and what insights can I get from it?

Q1. What are the key areas that the team need in order to be able to creatively solve audit problems with data?

– Knowledge of what AR is – Knowledge of accounting – Understanding of key terms – Knowledge of internal controls – Knowledge of basic fraud schemes – Knowledge of data sets – Data skills – Practice/ experience

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A background in programming and data analytics

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Q2. What did Chat GPT get wrong concerning how to compare the dates between delivery documents and billing documents?

The key should not be VBELN, but VGBEL+VGPOS and depending on the (VGTYP)

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The key should include the line item POSNR

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Q3. Why should we consider looking at more than the BSID table in SAP?

Because the BSID table only contains open items and someone may have cleaned up Accounts Receivable before the audit

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Because the open items are actually in the BSAD table

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Q4. Why might it be difficult to identify customer write-offs, if we only have the customer open and closed items?

Because we need to see the counterparty accounts

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Because we need to see the special ledger indicator

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Q5. Is the ZFBDT field equal to the due date?

No, it is the baseline date

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Yes, but we should consider if there was a discount

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Q6. Why might we not want to rely on special ledger indicators to see if there are illigitimate customer write-offs?

Because the fraudster can manually choose the special ledger indicator at the time of posting

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Because the special ledger indicator never holds information about customer write-offs

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Q7. If we wanted to use the counterparty account to see if there are customer write-offs, which table should we use?

The BSEG table

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The T047T table

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Q8. What is the problem with using BSEG_BELNR, BSEG_GJAHR and BSEG_BUKRS as the key to link to BSAD table?

Because this key is not unique, so the records in the BSAD table will become duplicated

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Because the key should include the BUZEI field

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Q9. What is another way to check if staff members are circumventing internal controls concerning detailed customer ageing?

Baseline date change review

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Check for credit memos that might indicate free products

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Q10. If a staff member is diverting customer payments to their own personal bank account, what might they do to hide this?

Write-off the customer debt through a manual journal entry/ Add 100% discounts to the customer invoice/ Use the incoming payment from another customer

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Change the customer bank account/ enter the transaction as a special ledger transaction

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Q11. Why should you create a data model with all the information you need before using Generative AI?

So that you can create dashboards that can be used to answer auditors' questions quickly

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Actually it is better to keep the dashboard simple so that the users of it do not get confused

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Q12. Why can we not call the value per date a balance, when using BSID table?

Because a balance tends to be considered at a point in time, so accounts staff would probably get confused if you tried to interview them about the graph

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Because we are talking about the total transaction value posted at each date

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Q13. Why might you want to include the customer account group when you make the dashboard?

So that you can isolate customers that are not intercompany, since the risk profile will be different

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So that you can see if the customer is a fictitious customer or not

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Q14. Why should you include the closed items in your analysis?

Because you need to be able to see the AR situation over time and not just at the date of extraction of the data

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Because otherwise you will not get the correct total customer balance

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Q15. Why do we need to have accounting knowledge, understanding of the data sets and critical thinking when using Artificial Intelligence generated graphs?

So that we choose the correct/ relevant graphs and give them meaningful titles that people can understand/ that are not misleading

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Actually we don’t need to have this understanding because the Generative AI is helping us

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Webclass 122: How can I check that my AR data is correct and what insights can I get from it?

Webclass 122: How can I check that my AR data is correct and what insights can I get from it?

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