Spreadsheet Professional Software for Auditing and Controling Excel Spreadsheets

This page shows you how Spreadsheet Professional can help you review and audit your spreadsheets and, where used within an organization, can address your excel spreadsheet control risks. If you want your excel models to be correct, and to eliminate those annoying errors that creep into spreadsheets, try Spreadsheet Professional out.

Addressing excel spreadsheet risks is a matter of providing your staff with the tools and processes to improve controls over their spreadsheets, and reduce the risks associated with excel use. No matter where you are or the legislation you are trying to comply with, you will need to address the following aspects of spreadsheet use:

• spreadsheet documentation,

• input controls,

• comprehensive testing methodology,

• version control,

• audit trails, and

• change controls.

If you are subject to any of these regulations ( SOX-404, 21-CFR-11, HIPAA, TREAD, SAS-70, IFRS, Basel-II, PIPEDA, Bill-198, USPA, GLBA ) then you need to know more about Spreadsheet Professional.

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Mail: info@AuditExcel.co.za

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PO Box 2683

Rivonia

2128

Spreadsheet Professional

Used by:  Shell, SASOL, Naspers, Engen, Siemens, GAPAC, PWC, Ernst & Young, AngloGold Ashanti, Rand Merchant Bank, Nedbank, BOC, HBOS, Eskom, Quest Co

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Excel spreadsheets are notoriously difficult to control. The very features that make them so useful, also make them risky i.e. flexibility, ease of use and transferability.

Watch this brief summary of Spreadsheet Professionals tools

Below we show how Spreadsheet Professional can address the control issues required with some nifty tools just to make your life easier.

Testing and Auditing Excel Spreadsheets

Spreadsheet Professional is a world leader in testing excel spreadsheets. By incorporating its tools into a formal testing process you can reduce your testing time by up to 80% and achieve more thorough testing.

Use can be made of the following features (click to watch video clip with audio)

• Maps Test reports
• Comparison report
• Watch Spreadsheet Professional test spreadsheets with these tools

Documenting Excel Spreadsheets

You will need to ensure that the appropriate level of spreadsheet documentation is maintained and kept up-to-date to understand the business objective and specific functions of the spreadsheet. Spreadsheet Professional provides the following reports that can be run with a few simple clicks:

• Summary report
• Range Names and Links to other workbooks
• Spreadsheet maps
• Translation of all calculations into meaningful words
• Report of all cells that require inputs
• Report of all inputs in the spreadsheet
• Results of general test performed
• Results of detailed tests performed.
• Visual representation of the formula in any cell and all the cells that are used to get the result
• Differences between two versions of a spreadsheet.
• Watch Spreadsheet Professional document Excel spreadsheets

Version Control, Audit Trails, and Change Control for Excel Spreadsheets

Depending on the longevity of your spreadsheet it may be useful to determine what has changed from version to version. Spreadsheet Professional provides you with a comparison tool that means it will take minutes instead of days.

• Comparison tool
• Watch Spreadsheet Professional compare/ track changes in Excel spreadsheets

Input Control for Excel Spreadsheets

A spreadsheet can only be as good as the inputs it receives. As per the old adage, garbage in means garbage out. See how Spreadsheet Professional can identify all inputs in a spreadsheet and compare them to previous versions of the spreadsheet.

• Maps
• Input cells
• Current version of inputs
• Tracing a formula back to its source cells
• Identify unused input cells
• Spreadsheet painter
• Input Control for Excel Spreadsheets

Access Control for Excel Spreadsheets

Access to critical spreadsheet should be controlled. Excel provides some useful protection devices and control should be maintained over where the spreadsheet is stored. Spreadsheet Professional can assist you to quickly determine if any changes have been made to a spreadsheet using its comparison tool.

• Comparison tool
• Watch Spreadsheet Professional use detective controls to show changes made

Spreadsheet Professional Documentation- a pdf with an explanation of the tools within Spreadsheet Professional

Spreadsheet Professional Training Sample- a sample of the training CD which is available to get you from beginner to expert in 6 hours.

Spreadsheet Professional Video Tutorials

• Testing and Auditing Excel Spreadsheets
• Documenting Excel Spreadsheets
• Version Control, Audit Trails and Change Control for Excel Spreadsheets
• Input Control for Excel Spreadsheets
• Access Control for Excel Spreadsheets
• Brief Spreadsheet Professional Advert- Video Tutorial with Audio

Pricing

A single license for the software costs R4 500 excl VAT (£295/ $425)

The training material can be purchased for R450 excl VAT (£30/ $43)

We provide a 30 day money back guarantee.

Contact us at adrian@AuditExcel.co.za to arrange the purchase or go to the purchase page on the Purchase page

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